Your systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure describe the pressure on your arteries at different points in your heart beat.

After years of judicial and legislative pugilism, Utah 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson has thrown out Utah’s gerrymandered congressional maps and ordered the Legislature to draw new districts that ...

West Nile virus is surging across the U.S. this summer, with infections running about 40% higher than normal, according to new reports. The virus is most commonly spread to people through the bite of ...

Even as tariff-related turmoil continues, consumer sentiment improved at the end of last month, and few companies are outright throwing long-term forecasts out the window. But Wall Street has shown ...

READING, Pa. (WPVI) -- At least one person was hurt in a 3-alarm apartment fire in Reading, Berks County. An Action News viewer sent in videos of the flames in the unit block of North 5th Street. The ...

A new global study led by the University of British Columbia shows that hotter and drier conditions are making food production more volatile, with crop yields swinging more sharply from year to year.

The Ravens aren’t looking at Sunday night’s game as just the first of 17 they will play in the regular season. It’s common to hear some version of that from teams playing games early in the year, but ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

While many people praise a person’s intelligence and craft high IQs as inherently superior, there are a number of skills that low-IQ people and performers do incredibly well, from creativity to ...

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...

From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...