Irregular sleeping habits have already been linked to cancer in a study earlier this year, but a new study published in the Journal of...
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan has said that pervasive misunderstanding about the role of antibiotics has caused a global health crisis and could, according...
Being infected with a species of parasitic worm may increase female fertility, according to new research. The scientists studied the Tsimane women...
Ever since 2012, when the US Preventative Services Task Force recommended against regular screenings for prostate cancer, the rate of death from...
A failing sense of smell could mark the start of memory problems and even Alzheimer’s disease according to a new study. According...
A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi has received the most extensive face transplant ever performed in the United States. The 27-year-old responded to a...
While health risks associated with obesity are well documented, a new study has found that even for thin people, some extra weight...
In the United Kingdom, the number of adults living with diabetes has risen over 65 percent in the last 10 years –...
According to new data out of the Centers for Disease Control, smoking is on the decline in the United States. The CDC...
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention released statistics regarding the smoking rates of adults, which show a rate of 16.8 percent...
In the upcoming year, Australia intends on rolling out a stronger flu vaccine after this year’s particularly rough flu season. The Australian...
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca’s once a day lung cancer pill, Tagrisso, has received early FDA approval fo the treatment of patients afflicted with...
On Friday, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported a roughly...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced that the number of Americans who smoke has dramatically fallen. Tobacco smoking is...
Scientists have figured out the key to malaria’s rampant growth. Protein molecules called cyclins cause cells to divide rapidly in the malara...
The rising cost of Medicare grows ever more quickly. While last year it increased by only 4.6 percent, this year it is...
The centers for Medicaid and Medicare services have announced that over 500,000 people have selected health plans under Obamacare during the first open...
Over the next few months, doctors from the Cleveland Clinic plan on performing a breakthrough procedure in which a Uterus will be...
Thursday, the New York City Health department released findings that one in five New Yorkers reported suffering from mental health issues. Health...
A study contucted by Virginia Wotring of the Center for Space Medicine and Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine in...