Wanda Puckett was 85 when she arrived at a hospital from her Eastern Oregon home for what she thought was a gallbladder attack. It turned out that she...
So your kid wants all those unhealthy snacks, right? Snacks shrouded in fat, salt and sugar...or all the above. Obviously, potato chips are one of the...
Erectile dysfunction makes for a lot of cheesy commercials and frustrating situations in the bedroom. But, romantic failure may not be the most seriou...
Last November, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued a set of recommendations that said many women under 50 might not get much benefit from...
Psychiatrists use lists to define mental health. Lists that attempt to trace mental disorders to parts of the brain. Science historian Jamie Cohen-Col...
This story of war, science, and health care policy opens in 1950, five years after the end of World War II. Researchers identified more than 86,000 pe...
Scientists have been researching connections between smoking and Alzheimer's disease for at least 20 years, yet dozens of studies appeared to come up ...
As Kelly and dietician Ruth Carey point out, avocados are all good news. Creamy and rich, avocados are considered to be among the world's healthiest f...
A drug called sibutramine - sold under the name Meridia in North America and Reductil, among other names, in Europe - is at the center of an internati...
According to a national study by the Harvard School of Public Health, the only significant drop in breast cancer rates happened among white women over...
One major U.S. industry significantly lags behind when it comes to social media. It is an industry that is still trying to figure out how to use e-mai...