The findings confirm the importance for the development of strong bones of a vitamin D supplement of 400 ...

Antidepressant use in North America has jumped in the last two decades, perhaps because doctors are increasingly prescribing ...

All wounds need to be cleaned out—but evidence shows that cleaning wounds with soap was not better than ...

Health concerns about plasticizers have been the subject of considerable scientific, legal and media debate in recent years.

The mainstay of current approaches to treating addiction might actually aggravate it.

Overuse of antibiotics fuels the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, which has become a major public-health concern worldwide.

The gastrointestinal parasite mostly affects children in developing countries. It can stunt the physical and mental development of ...

The researchers explain, in a recent article in Frontiers in Psychology, that although the groups felt quite differently ...

Take a look in your pantry: the miracle ingredient for fighting obesity may already be there. A simple ...

A new computer model shows how much being overweight or obese can decrease a person’s life expectancy.

The findingspoint to a complicated “epidemic” in which physicians, users, the health care system, and the social environment ...

Young men who experience depression early in life may be especially vulnerable to becoming sedentary later, choosing to ...