The death rate for people affected by cancer has been decreasing in United States. However, not everyone has benefited equally according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).
A weight loss specialist, Dr. Gautam Gupta 57, is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). FBI has started a national and international effort to locate him.
According to a new study 25 percent of high school students drink soda daily which is an alarming number that could lead to increase in obesity rate and other related diseases. Seventeen percent of Americans age 2 to 19 are overweight, according to the CDC.
An antipsychotic drug Risperdal and the generic Risperidone have been recalled after a strange odor had been reported by some patients taking the medication.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Pfizer's anti-smoking drug called Chantix needs to change its labeling in order to warn patients that using the medicine can slightly increase the risk of heart problems for those who already suffer from cardiovascular disease.
According to a new study 25 percent of high school students drink soda daily which is an alarming number that could lead to increase in obesity rate and other related diseases.
Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked America’s ten dirtiest cities. Who's #1? It's not New York, it's not LA, it's....
Scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have discovered a trio of genes tied to migraine headaches, one in which the link is exclusive to women, according to a study published on Sunday.
A rabies-infected girl who showed normally irreversible symptoms of the late-stage infection, survived miraculously in what is only the third such case in the US.
According to a new research bariatric surgery does not assist older men to live longer.
According to a new study bariatric surgery does not help older men to have a longer life.
A Connecticut woman whose face was hurt by a chimpanzee has received surgery for a full face transplant. The surgery, which took place in May, lasted 20 hours and took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The consumption of non-alcoholic weissbier, or wheat beer, has a positive effect on athletes' health, according to a research study that gathered during the world's largest study of marathons, Be-MaGIC (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular system).
Connecticut chimpanzee attack victim Charla Nash got a full face and hand transplant late last month in a 20-hour surgery. The prerequisites of a full face transplant surgery are the availability of a suitable donor with blood and tissues matching the patient’s and the physical and psychological health of the patient.
A Connecticut woman whose face was attacked by a chimpanzee has received surgery for a full face transplant. The surgery, which took place in May, lasted 20 hours and took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Research scientists have discovered a new class of nicotinic receptor located in the hypothalamus of the brain that may alleviate hunger. The new research study uncovered a brain mechanism that could be targeted for new medications designed to help people quit smoking without gaining weight.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.
According to the Australian parenting website, 'Raising Children Network', health problems associated with childhood obesity are so severe, that there are concerns the current generation of parents in Australia will outlive their children!
Women fake orgasms in bed to protect their own insecurities and fear of intimacy, according to a new research study, the Livescience magazine reports.
Despite consumer education campaigns to reduce the food poisoning cases caused by salmonella, infections have steadily increased for the last few years according to federal FoodNet report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A recent study found that the DASH diet may help teenage girls to gain less weight. Here are some tips for summer travel on the DASH diet.
The high-fiber, relatively high caloric diet is primarily concerned with reducing hypertension
A North German farm,Gaertnerhof Bienenbuettel, has been identified as the most likely source of the infection in the E.coli outbreak, that killed 22 people and affected more than 2,200 people, a local media report said.
Parents who have watched their young children eating mud while playing in the garden can now relax. A research suggests that eating mud or clay could actually be good for the stomach.
Yoga is a way of life for good living and for the benefit of the body. Yoga is the only way through which the body will be fit and fine without any trainer, without equipment and medicine.
The Food and Drug Administration says there is no relationship between a drug called angiotensis-receptor and risk of getting cancer.
Around 1 in 8 women in United States (12 percent) develop aggressive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. About 40,000 women in the U.S. died in 2010 from breast cancer.
Scientists investigating in to the killer E. coli strain in Europe have found that the bacteria combines a highly poisonous but common toxin with a rarely seen glue that binds it to a patient's intestines.
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that a highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria, which is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany and other countries, is a never-before-seen mutation.
A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany. The 17th German victim, an 81-year-old woman passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning from the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) bacterium, a kidney specialist at the clinic in the northern city of Hamburg said.
