New Hampshire and Connecticut aren’t the only states suffering from an increase in opioid overdoses. According to data presented at a summit...
A middle-school student in Southern California has been confirmed to have leprosy, local health officials reported Thursday, while stressing that the rest...
Codeine is not safe, especially for children, according to the Anerican Academy of Pediatrics. The organization issued a statement discouraging parents and...
The US government is asking for the public’s help in coming up with mobile app designs that will help opioid users connect...
Gonorrhea has become an even scarier infection. There are now seven patients in Hawaii recorded as the first known cases in the...
Stress can thwart a woman’s best intentions, especially when it comes to her diet, new research suggests. Even when women started the...
Smoking clearly damages human DNA, researchers found, and only some of the damage done will fade over time. Researchers from the Harvard...
There’s some good news for pregnant women. Swedish researchers say that the H1N1 “swine flu” vaccine, named Pandemrix, does not cause any...
A new kind of hormonal contraceptive device is now out on the market. The US Food and Drug Administration approved pharmaceutical company...
The five-second rule in food has always been a somewhat dubious idea that people have enthusiastically embraced anyway: any food dropped on the...
There were over a hundred thousand deaths caused by smog and haze brought on by fires in Indonesia last year, a new...
Officials in Florida are set to declare the neighborhood of Wynwood in Miami Zika-free on Monday morning, closing a two-month-period of a...
Spending too much time on the internet – so much that it becomes an addiction – may signify mental health issues in...
As far as multitasking mothers go, Anna Young from Utah is pretty hard to beat – she ran a half-marathon on September...
This week is Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, President Barack Obama has declared in an official proclamation. The move is...
Pharmaceutical companies and universities that recruit participants for clinical trials and surveys now face tougher rules that seek to ensure important information...
A minor with a terminal disease has become the first patient to undergo euthanasia in Belgium since age limits on the procedure...
Early menopause heightens the risk for cardiovascular diseases and early death in women, a new study suggests. Dr. Taulant Muka of Erasmus...
Men diagnosed with early prostate cancer who track their disease have the same survival rate as those who have surgery or radiation,...
Leukemia is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among children and teenagers, unseating top ranker brain cancer. In the late 1990s,...