Ask emergency-room doctors what haunts them the most, and you might hear that it’s not just the severity of what they see—it’s the familiarity. Over and over again, they treat people for accidents ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s 3 a.m. Your eyes snap open as you’re rudely jolted from slumber by your 4-year-old standing silently at your bedside, backlit ...

It's not a very good movie, but this is a great dark joke, because the world in which we talk philosophically about scary things is supposed to be separate from the world in which the scariest things ...

Most of us have intuitive thoughts, where our inner voice says something bizarre. But being functional adults, we don’t let that voice win. Children, however, haven’t yet developed the ability to ...

Happy Halloween to our readers! In recognition of this, the most frightening of holidays, I thought I’d compile a list of the most frightening issues in healthcare today. To be sure, healthcare is an ...

Every Halloween, car crashes involving distracted drivers spike. And for pedestrians—especially children—that risk can turn deadly in a heartbeat. The glow of jack-o’-lanterns, the laughter of kids in ...

It’s 3 a.m. Your eyes snap open as you’re rudely jolted from slumber by your 4-year-old standing silently at your bedside, backlit by the hallway light like some tiny, pajama-clad specter. “The old ...