News

  1. Shop Until You Can’t Stop: Compulsive buying affects both men and women

    A national telephone survey indicates that nearly 6 percent of adults find themselves unable to resist frequent shopping binges that leave them saddled with debt, anxiety, and depression.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Improving the View: Treatment reverses macular degeneration

    People with the eye disease known as macular degeneration now have a better-than-average prospect of recovering some vision, thanks to a new drug that takes a lesson from an anticancer strategy.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Humans

    U.S. population to surpass 300 million

    At approximately the middle of October, the population of the United States will hit and then quickly eclipse 300 million, according to the U.S.