As international health officials struggled this week to decide whether to destroy the last smallpox stockpiles, Booster Shots blogger...
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned parents and physicians against giving the thickening agent SimplyThick to premature...
California Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Gov. Jerry Brown today nominated Jonathan Thomas to succeed Robert Klein as chairman of the...
Home births in the United States increased 20% from 2004 to 2008, reaching their highest level since 1990, according to a study published...
Turns out those products being marketed as producing 'legal' highs -- highs not produced by a banned substance -- are not at all what they...
Researchers have taken a big step forward in studying depression in humans because they have succeeded in improving a mouse model of the...
Dr. Ginevra Liptan was nearing the end of her first year in medical school when she felt a muscle tear in her neck while exercising at the...
As an outbreak of highly contagious horse herpes infects horses across Western states, leaving some horses dead and prompting event...
Ronald McDonald has been getting heat this week from an advocacy group irate at the company's continued marketing to children. The group...
Eighty percent of polyurethane foam samples from 101 common baby products had detectable amounts of "potentially toxic" flame retardants,...
Latinos have higher rates of diabetes than other ethnic groups. They also appear to have higher rates of having both diabetes and a mood...
Women 30 and older who’ve been told they can safely wait three years between cervical cancer screenings can relax. Such advice appears...
Men, it's your health and happiness or hers. Women, it's your health and happiness or his. At the end of the day, if there's housework to be...
The not-for-kids picture book "Go the F--- to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach has become a viral sensation after excerpts from the book were...
Women deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are emerging as a group especially vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder,...
Preparing for disasters has always been part of the mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from hurricanes to flu...
Smart phones have already supplemented the doctor’s office and personal computers as sources of health advice — and now...
The skull surgery performed on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Wednesday to replace bone removed after she was shot in the head in January went...
HONOLULU -- Home-based caregivers of ill or elderly family members are under enormous physical and mental stress, but daily meditative...
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