Melinda Howard tells PEOPLE her hand was “really swollen and looked bad" Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business ...

Melinda Howard’s medical ordeal started with a paper cut on her hand. One week later, she was in urgent care where she required three forms of antibiotics to fight an alarming infection. “It was scary ...

For most of history, Oct. 31 has simply been observed as Halloween. But in 2008, the day took on new meaning for the digital world. On this day, an individual or a group of developers, using the ...

Those sky-high prices are still working their way through the supply chain, so the chocolate in stores this fall was made from some of the priciest beans on record. That is why even Hershey’s and Mars ...

A frightening amount of plastic ends up thrown away after Halloween. How you can make your celebration more sustainable? Senate shut down for 1.5 hours after Pauline Hanson's burka stunt Teen charged ...

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, and Cosimo de Medici were among her admirers. Poets compared her art to Michelangelo’s. Seventeenth-century Dutch textile and paper cutting artist Joanna Koerten was ...

The inflation rate has eased considerably since peaking at 9.1% a few years ago, but prices on most consumer goods still haven’t come down. This means cash-strapped consumers continue to eye savings ...

Trick-or-treat? More like trick-or-try-and-save-some-money. A new study by CouponFollow showed that about one in five Americans aren't celebrating Halloween this year, with 72% of Americans cutting ...