Rates of whooping cough in the United States are at their highest level in decades, yet most adults don't know whether they are adequately protected against the disease, results from a new poll suggest. In the poll, 61 percent of adults said they didn ...

The state Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan in October started the Michigan Elder Justice and At-Risk Adults Project and Thursday conducted its inaugural summit in Grand Blanc, attended by more than 300 people including international elder ...

Mali-based Amnesty International researchers spoke with nine children between the ages of 13 and 17, who were being held with adults in camps in Bamako, Mali's capital. The children in detention said they had not been interviewed in their own languages ...

In 2010, four of the seven people who drowned in Lancaster County were adults. That same year, the most recent one for which statistics are available, 57 of 79 people who drowned in the state were adults. Nationwide, 2,752 of 3,782 people who drowned ...

Last week Jorge Tume is shown working on a computer at a concrete company in Miami. Tume's parents brought him and his younger brother to the U.S. from Peru on tourist visas when they were young and decided to stay, becoming unauthorized ...

The Pew survey did find one oddity: "Unlike smartphones, which are most popular with younger adults ages 18-34, we see the highest rates of tablet ownership among adults in their late thirties and early forties. In fact, almost half (49%) of adults ...

A new University of Michigan poll shows that 61 percent of adults say they don't know when they were last vaccinated against pertussis, which could mean they might be unwittingly exposing vulnerable babies to the disease. Only 20 percent of adults ...

Now an international team of scientists has measured the number of newly created neurons in the hippocampus region of adults—an area associated with memory and learning. Most nerve cells in the human brain develop in the womb. According to the new ...