Your burger has lettuce, so it must be healthy, right? A strawberry milkshake has fruit doesn't it?
Get the full story >>An early menopause is often in store for women under age 40 who have chemotherapy for breast cancer. Women can choose to have some eggs...
Get the full story >>An independent panel of doctors and health experts Tuesday recommended that health plans cover contraceptives for women without co-pays,...
Get the full story >>Baby boomers—time for a health reality check. A new poll finds the generation worries most about cancer and memory loss. But heart...
Get the full story >>Marriage might be good for a man's heart. Seriously. A new study published online Monday in the Canadian Medical Assn. Journal found that...
Get the full story >>In the United States and Europe, antiretroviral drugs have changed HIV infection from an early death sentence to a lifelong but...
Get the full story >>Strike another blow for refined carbs: A study released today finds that soy and milk protein supplements may be associated with lower blood...
Get the full story >>One less reason to worry about letting Grandma drive the kids: Letting her take the wheel might lower the chances that your kids will get...
Get the full story >>Secondhand smoke is a menace to everyone exposed to it. Besides respiratory infections and lung cancer, it may lead to hearing loss in...
Get the full story >>Four in 10 kids who get a diagnosis of either depression or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) end up getting both diagnoses...
Get the full story >>If bad driving is a disease, some people should be locked up in deep quarantine. Turn signal phobia, red light blindness, tailgate-itis,...
Get the full story >>A good training program can take a cyclist from the middle of the pack to the front. Get tips on improving endurance, speed and strength...
Get the full story >>The actions of a Southern California woman who allegedly cut off her husband's penis has horrified men throughout the country, perhaps...
Get the full story >>Whether our laptops, tablets and smartphones have made us smarter or dumber is a matter of endless debate and of scant but ...
Get the full story >>After more than 20 years of research, doctors at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute have begun treating the first patients in clinical...
Get the full story >>Reducing salt may be healthy for consumers, but it doesn't seem to be going down well for business.
Get the full story >>Older people are, well, old. They are in declining health, confronting death and may already be losing some of the people closest to them....
Get the full story >>Admitting you have an eating disorder after living with it for years is no easy task -- but that's exactly what Demi Lovato told Ryan...
Get the full story >>Drinking six to eight glasses of water each day is healthful, most health experts agree. But apparently not everyone is on the same page.
Get the full story >>Trapped in your neighborhood this weekend due to "Carmegeddon," or just afraid to venture out in an automobile? No worries -- consider using...
Get the full story >>Genomics research, in which researchers scan subjects' DNA in search of the genetic basis of many diseases, has focused too narrowly on...
Get the full story >>The placebo effect is alive and well, at least for patients with acute asthma.
Get the full story >>Cancer kills more men than women -- some forms more than others, finds a new study.
Get the full story >>First Lady Michelle Obama is a champion for healthful eating and exercise, home gardens and salad bars at school lunches. Now she’s...
Get the full story >>With the Women's World Cup in full swing in Germany, our...
Get the full story >>Fertility scientists gathered in Stockholm last week to present their latest research on in vitro fertilization, high-risk pregnancies and...
Get the full story >>Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of a wide range of birth defects, including skull defects, missing or deformed limbs, clubfoot,...
Get the full story >>Japanese scientists have some good news for farmers (and eaters) near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant: The soil can be made...
Get the full story >>As a heat wave sweeps eastward through much of the United States, residents of the affected cities are bracing for the worst. A few words of...
Get the full story >>If you're counting on a hypoallergenic dog to keep the household free from sneeze-inducing allergens--don't. Levels of dog allergens don't...
Get the full story >>Young children have no excuse not to exercise—even if they can’t walk yet.
Get the full story >>This one’s big, even for Texas. The birth of a 16-pound, 1-ounce baby boy in Longview, Texas, on Friday may be the largest bundle of...
Get the full story >>PET scans to diagnose Alzheimer's disease will be available someday soon, according to accumulating research showing the scans can...
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Get the full story >>Family history is an incredibly helpful tool for doctors trying to determine a patient's risk of cancer. But one family history intake...
Get the full story >>The salt content of your diet is important -- we've heard that from health experts over and over again. But a new study suggests that it's...
Get the full story >>Kate Hudson and Victoria Beckham both gave birth this weekend -- Hudson to a second son and Beckham to the first daughter after three boys.
Get the full story >>Spanish surgeons said Monday that they had performed the world's first double-leg transplant, giving an accident victim two new legs....
Get the full story >>Japanese and European researchers have identified a new strain of Neisseria gonorroeae that is exceptionally resistant to...
Get the full story >>Here’s another reason not to light up around little ones: Not only are children who are surrounded by secondhand smoke at greater risk...
Get the full story >>Hey, boys and girls, it's free Slurpee day at 7-Eleven stores! To celebrate the company's sort-of birthday (check the date — it's 7/...
Get the full story >>The madman, the manipulator and the maneater -- three managers from hell call the shots in this weekend's new dude-centric comedy, "Horrible...
Get the full story >>With diabetes rates rising, it's important to learn how to prevent the disease as well as help control symptoms. Learn how exercise can...
Get the full story >>Having bariatric surgery doesn't mean you have to take it easy on exercise. A study finds that after surgery, exercising regularly at a...
Get the full story >>As Derek Jeter inches ever-closer to 3,000 hits, sports commenters are heaping praise on the Yankee shortstop who has, over the years,...
Get the full story >>Not every electrical device can keep going and going. Take Medtronic’s SynchroMed II Implantable Drug Infusion Pump, for example....
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