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Happy people spend more free hours socializing, reading and participating in religious activities, while unhappy people watch 30 percent more television, according to new research on American life.

Does a messy neighborhood make a difference on how people act? It sure does! Graffiti on the walls, trash in the street, bicycles chained to a fence, all resulted in a decline in how people behaved in a series of experiments.

The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't act sooner to save him.

After learning complex skills, people perform those skills better after a night's sleep, a study using video games shows.

Patients oppose plans to reduce the ability of rural GPs in England to provide drugs directly to their patients, a poll suggests.

Real reform may be more doable than you think.

(American Journal of Pathology) Current research suggests that melatonin therapy may help treat uveitis, a common inflammatory eye disease.

AT LEAST 600 Scottish babies a year are judged to be at risk of abuse before they are even born, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

A NEW internet health craze could be putting thousands of people at risk of developing serious, long-term illnesses, scientists warned last night.

FRESH evidence has emerged that music lovers are risking permanent hearing loss as a result of using their MP3 players at "dangerously loud levels".