Screaming sports coaches and cutthroat tycoons have it wrong: Nice guys do finish first, a new study suggests.

Research on sibling relationships suggests sisters tend to have more contact as adults than other sibling pairs. While this means sisters often remain close, particularly as they get older, it also creates more opportunity for conflict and rivalry.

You can't buy happiness but it looks like you can at least inherit it, British and Australian researchers said on Thursday.

Love really is blind, at least when it comes to looking at others, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

A top panel of U.S. scientists has published a new book asserting that belief in the theory of evolution and religious faith "can be fully compatible," and that creationism has no place in science classes.

Spirituality helps older black American women with high blood pressure stick to the drug regimens that keep the condition under control, new research suggests.

People who are depressed about their cancer are no more likely to die than people who keep a positive outlook, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Along with memorizing body parts and learning to diagnose and treat diseases, students in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are being introduced this fall to a new set of courses incorporating spirituality into their training.

Employers who screen and guide depressed workers through treatment options reap an average of three extra weeks of productivity from each of those employees per year.

The health and well-being of their kids is a concern of multitudes of parents, as more than six million American children head off to summer camp this year, their care thrust into the hands of teenaged counselors and skilled administrators.