For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels. Often called the “100-day cough,” whooping cough or pertussis ...

It’s been 15 long years in the making but the reaction to the newly released trailer for Andy Serkis’ adaptation of “Animal Farm” suggests that time may not have been well spent. The actor and ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Prairie Village is weighing a rather odd proposal: a full monkey ban — a change that could uproot a two-pound spider monkey from its family. Toni Skelton, who owns the ...

A monkey who spent several days on the lam after escaping from a truck that crashed on a rural Mississippi highway earlier this year now has a permanent home at a New Jersey wildlife refuge. Today in ...

Who would have guessed that a stubbly, bespectacled cartoon pig would open a new front in the ongoing debate about male role models? Supermodel David Gandy has launched a takedown of Daddy Pig, the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. San Francisco — San Francisco Opera’s hit new opera, Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” which had its final ...

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - UPDATE: The Lexington-Fayette Health Dept. has reported three more cases for a total of eight. We’re told cases are in school-aged children, and the other case is in a child ...

DIAGNOSED WITH END STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE. MOST PATIENTS WAITING FOR A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT HAVE TO WAIT UP TO FIVE YEARS TO GET ONE. FOR TIM ANDREWS. IT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN EVEN LONGER, AND I KNEW THAT ...

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - India has more work to do in halting sales of toxic cough syrup, despite some progress, a World Health Organization official told Reuters, after at least 24 children died ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --An animal rescue group in Indiana announced it has successfully apprehended a pig that was on the loose for several days in a public park. Oinking Acres Farm Rescue & Sanctuary in ...

If your kiddo’s world revolves around Peppa Pig — and let’s be honest, whose doesn’t? — Amazon just launched something that’s going to make your holiday shopping so much easier. The newest Amazon Fire ...