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Life expectancy in Los Angeles County is 80.5 years, according to the report by Measure of America, a program of the Social Science Research Council. That’s down 1.6 years from the group’s previous ...

New findings offer insight into why some embryos fail to develop past zygotic genome activation (ZGA), pointing to an unexpected root of human infertility. A critical point in early development is ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The City of Ithaca has been awarded a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI). The MEI examines how inclusive a municipality is ...

CONWAY, Ark. — For years, Reagan Stanford and her team at Disability Rights Arkansas (DRA) have been documenting what they call serious concerns inside the Conway Human Development Center. "Most of ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” ...

The human brain experiences five distinct eras as we age, and each is defined by changes in our neural architecture that influence how we process information, new research shows. The brain changes ...

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...

WARREN, Ark. (KATV) — 11 DHS employees have been placed on administrative leave and another has been terminated after a resident died when improper care was provided at a disability services center in ...

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) identifies multiple deprivations at the household and individual level in health, education and standard of living, the same three dimensions as the ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...