Health

Nipple tape, pickle juice and dinosaurs: how I learned to love running, the unorthodox way

The usual advice was getting me nowhere. If I really wanted to embrace running, I’d need to go off-piste. It was a journey that took me to some very strange places …

‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing

Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models

Powerful storms and suspected tornadoes slam Midwest, leaving nearly 1 million without power

Updated on: August 11, 2026 / 11:29 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Famed tourist destinations evacuated as wildfire threatens California’s Big Sur

Nearly 500 personnel battle Timber fire in Los Padres national forest as blaze grows to 3,000 acres

Mayor of New Jersey beach town worries social media trend could lead to shark attack

August 11, 2026 / 7:58 PM EDT / CBS News

Farm linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak hadn't been inspected in 7 years as FDA lags on foreign inspection targets

Updated on: August 11, 2026 / 7:36 PM EDT / CBS News

Colombia earthquake rescuers race to find survivors in rubble as death toll rises to at least 181

Updated on: August 11, 2026 / 7:31 PM EDT / CBS/AFP

Social Security Adds 14 Health Conditions to Fast-Track Disability List. See What They Are.

August 11, 2026 / 2:40 PM EDT / CBS News

The Office actor Lucy Davis says she has incurable stage four breast cancer

Star, 53, says disease has metastasised to her bones and it is too late for chemotherapy

Florida paddleboarder rescues woman from alligator attack

Mike Heard used his paddle to strike gator that had latched on to swimmer in Silver River after hearing yells of ‘Gator!’

What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond?

Is there any science behind the recommendations? Will they result in lower vaccination rates? And will they cause a resurgence of preventable diseases?

University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students

School said it is pivoting away from letter-grading system to ‘curb the mental health crisis’ among college students