Year: 2016

New research suggests there might be a dangerous aspect to owning a dog in our senior years that just might lead...

In future years, it's a good possibility that people will look at chemotherapy as practiced in the 20th Century as...

The risk of crashing a car is significantly higher if the driver is performing one of a number of distracting...

Air pollution may be a contributing factor to weight gain and several related health issues.

People who belong to at least one social group live longer than those who don't.

According to the CDC, over 47,000 Americans fatally overdosed on prescription killers in 2014. Almost as stunning was the apparent...

The threat of losing a monetary reward if an exercise goal is not attained may be more motivating than the...

Fibromyalgia patients treated with acupuncture experience relief from painful symptoms and enjoy improved quality of life.

Patients are far more likely to die if the registered nurses caring for them handle more than six patients each.

The majority of Americans gain some weight during the course of their vacations and tend not to lose it after...

Deaths due to car accidents, drug overdoses, and gun violence are significant contributors to the gap in life expectancy rates...

Suicide rates among concussion victims are three times higher than suicide rates among those who never had a concussion.

Although the safety of BPA and its clones is highly open to question, it is still to be found in...

New research suggests that senior citizens who have an active sex life "may" have healthier brains.

Using antiperspirants disrupts the natural colonies of bacteria that reside on the skin of our armpits and unnaturally alters their...

A new study has found that keeping cancer cells alive may stop a tumor from spreading.

Boys who are overweight tend to go through puberty earlier than usual, but curiously, boys who are obese tend to...

Colon cancer rates may have increased in both men and women under 50, and the disease is often diagnosed at...

New research finds that coffee does not cause heart palpitations, fluttering, extra beats, or other cardiac irregularities.

When it comes to feeding infants, there really is no "good" alternative to breast milk--although theoretically one could be formulated...

When parents act in a manipulative or controlling manner, at least some of their college-student children convert the stress they...

Rates of myopia have increased steadily worldwide—in fact, they’ve skyrocketed—and particularly among children in Asian nations.

More than 90 percent of restaurants in the United States provide servings that exceed the recommended number of calories to...

A well-designed daily exercise routine may be the best way to avoid triggering an episode of lower back pain.

Frequent consumption of leafy green vegetables such as spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, and collard greens may lower a person's risk...