Federal drug regulators warned that patients should be watched closely for signs of serious mental illness.
Sports nutrition expert Leslie Bonci talks about the best time to eat before and after exercise.
Some people counted as medically insured have coverage so meager that a medical crisis means financial calamity.
At a town-hall-style meeting, President Obama pushed his proposal for a health care overhaul as a cost-saver rather than an expenditure.
From fertile to post-fertile, many women are using natural methods to ease menopause symptoms.
Hoopla for new research on the genetics of schizophrenia is misplaced. The findings dash cold water on the hope of finding a simple genetic basis for the illness.
A federal advisory panel voted to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin because of their effects on the liver.
The nation?s largest private employer said cuts in health care costs must be part of the reform package.
The report recommended priorities for the Obama administration as it spends $1.1 billion to compare the effectiveness of drugs, medical devices, surgeries and other treatments.
A blood protein thought to play an important role in heart disease is little more than a bystander, researchers say.
A report by the Hastings Center on the selling of kidneys in Pakistan suggests that the sellers often regret their decision and are often not paid what was promised.
The older Americans are, the younger they feel, a large new survey found.
A vaccine has been approved for a new form of the flu virus which has affected horses first, then dogs, but no humans so far.
Dr. Gary D. Kao, accused of mishandling treatment for prostate cancer, spoke before a Congressional panel.
The radiation clinic, where everybody knows your name.
How Walt Disney cheered the brain, and Lourdes enraptured it.
Older adults who remain socially engaged are less likely to experience declines in motor skills like strength, speed and dexterity, a new study finds
A new study finds that as the drinking age has gone up, binge drinking has gone down ? except among college students.
Patients who received a bioengineered protein during spinal fusion procedures had far more complications than patients who did not, according to a study released Tuesday.
About 47,000 elderly Americans are treated in emergency rooms each year from falls associated with walkers and canes, according to a study.
Two new diabetes studies lend further support to the idea that weight-loss surgery may benefit those with Type 2 disease.
A Canadian study adds to a growing body of evidence that being overweight, but not obese, may help you live longer.
A controversial hypothesis suggests that by revving up the immune system, excess fat may have provided a now-outdated survival tool.
Everyone tells you to listen to your body, but what are you supposed to listen to? Turns out it?s not so obvious.
Rustic vegetable pies are a great way to work vegetables into your diet.
The city wants to require shops that sell cigarettes to post health notices that will include a photo of blackened lungs.
A unit of Johnson & Johnson said that a jury has ordered Abbott Laboratories to pay $1.67 billion in a patent infringement suit over rheumatoid arthritis drugs.
The White House is trying to shift the health care debate away from Washington and to the states.
As part of an effort to close a $24.3 billion budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed eliminating the state?s $6 million contribution to its four poison control centers.
A Congressional investigation found that insurers used a flawed database to underpay some doctors, driving up the cost to patients.
Eight cyclists show what vigilance about health can accomplish.
The symptoms are similar to heartburn, but failure to properly diagnose bile reflux can result in serious, sometimes life-threatening problems
Can compounds in tea affect iron levels in your body?
After working as a psychiatrist, finding help for oneself can become complicated.
My new job had been to usher in life. Then came the day death intruded.
When typhoid struck a day camp, New York rose to the challenge.
Alone in a hospital room with a patient gasping for air.
Dr. Donald Berwick talks about transferring control from doctors to patients.
The value of speech when death is near.
An insatiable fascination with contagious illness is hard-wired into all of us, as two new books make clear.
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