The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has predicted that worldwide, cancer rates will likely more...

While pharmacies must, by law, provide accurate labels that describe how to take a given medication, they are not required...

The only way that health care can survive -- the only way you can survive -- is if you take...

About seventy-five percent of the time, there's a complete lack of clinical evidence supporting the efficacy or safety of the...

Multiple studies now show that baby fat in kids presages obesity in adulthood, plus it brings with it a slew...

According to a new study, frozen embryos have a better chance of yielding healthy babies than do fresh fertilized eggs.

The American Cancer Society released a report showing that cancer rates and cancer deaths declined in the latest census, which...

In the last year, about 750,000 patients sought cheaper, friendlier, safer medical treatment via 'medical tourism', outside the borders of...

A new study just published in The Journal of Endodontics has found that root canals require less follow-up care than...

The 27-nation European Union has enacted laws aimed to progressively curtail the availability of herbal and traditional medicinal products.

The average hand hosts 150 different species of bacteria, and women's hands teem with more varieties of bacteria than do...

A recent PBS documentary profiles women who have tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation, which according to "reputable" medical...

What is it about vitamin E that seems to bring out the worst in medical researchers? Once again, I find...

Because obese people, or those with the gene variant, get more excited thinking about food but less pleasure from actually...

A new study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has found that vitamins C and...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that by taking testosterone supplements, older women can restore...

Earlier this week, Google launched its new "flu trends" service, which reports the spread of any flu outbreak in real-time...

According to an article in PLoS Medicine, scientific journals are not the most reliable source for finding out about the...

Enough children get kidney stones these days that hospitals such as Johns Hopkins are establishing dedicated pediatric kidney stone clinics.

In our last newsletter, we talked about what probiotics are and what the benefits of supplementation might be. In this...

Recently a new strain of MRSA has demonstrated resistance to the antibiotic Zyvox, which was considered to be the one...

According to a study out of Kingston University in London, many wines contain heavy metals up to 200 times the...

New research out of the University of Oxford in England has confirmed a strong link between eating meat and dairy...

According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the United States ranks 29th in the world...

Recent research at the University of South Carolina has confirmed that magnetic therapy relieves depression.