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Teenage boys are still the primary users of stimulant medications to treat ADHD, but increased use by adults, particularly young women, has fueled a 36 percent rise in prescriptions in five years.

Conflicting information raises even more questions about the fate of the Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared nearly a week ago with 239 people on board.

Walter Williams, 78, was declared dead in February. The news about how he started to move while on an embalming table in Mississippi went viral. Now, authorities say they're sure he really has died.

UBS, which was fined for manipulating the Libor rate in 2012, was censured by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's de facto central bank.

Host Jessica Harris speaks with David Kelley, co-founder of the global design firm IDEO, a company helped create Apple's first computer mouse. Harris also speaks with Opower co-founder Dan Yates.

Jamie DeWolf and friends engineer a mass prank on a "Mall Santa" at the peak of the Christmas shopping frenzy.

After witnessing a deplorable act of immorality, Alan Abel founds The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA), a campaign to clothe all naked animals for the sake of decency.

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With books like Stiff and Spook, Roach has built a reputation for making unpalatable subjects entertaining. In Gulp, she tackles the human digestive system, from the mouth on down.

The more fast food you encounter where you live and work, the likelier you are to be obese, research shows. That suggests policies limiting fast-food outlets in neighborhoods may be onto something.