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Children in Fukushima are getting fatter as outdoor activities have been cut in the area due to radiation fears after last year’s nuclear disaster, a Japanese government report said Tuesday.
Former US president George H.W. Bush celebrated Christmas in a Texas hospital with his family Tuesday after a series of health setbacks that have delayed his release, his spokesman said.
Bad Pharma is the story of the ways in which the pharmaceutical industry, with the help of regulators, doctors and academics, seeks to pervert and obfuscate the research done to test new medicines.
Athletes in the U.S. suffer 3.8 million sports-related concussions each year. While helmet makers dither with small improvements, Swedish scientists have built something that could protect us all.
The chemical-sniffing setup will send data to the Web so doctors and patients can get a better sense of what causes attacks.
Devices from two startups could be used to treat people with anxiety disorders—and one of the devices may eventually diagnose pain.
As we start 2013, many people will be thinking about plans and promises to improve their diets and health.
Up to 80 percent of Americans are deficient in magnesium, which is very difficult to measure with a blood test
A second cruise liner hit by the norovirus vomiting illness has arrived back in the UK.
By the end of the 1920s, scientists already knew that tobacco smoke contained a small encyclopedia’s worth of risky chemical compounds:
It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader
Fluoride exposure at typical water fluoridation levels is known to decrease IQ across the board and leading medical heads have confirmed it is fueling cancer and other disease as well, but what about fluoride levels around 5,000 times that found in m
U.S. regulators are relaxing school meal rules aimed at reining in calories and portion sizes after some students, parents and lawmakers complained that new stricter policies left many children hungry.
Researchers have found a better and a cheaper way to restore human sight by implanting a contact lens containing stem cells that will repair the human cornea. Scientists from the University of Sheffield hope that the biodegradable implant disc’s
Scanadu hopes its tricorder-like device and a smartphone will help people track their health and diagnose problems.
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the cancer preventive effects of vitamin D, whereby its active form essentially shuts down cancer cells.
Ovarian cancer is one of the most deadly diseases out there. It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women — an astounding 14,000 out of 23,000 diagnosed each year, die.
The breast cancer industry’s holy grail (that mammography is the primary weapon in the war against breast cancer) has been disproved. In fact, mammography appears to have CREATED 1.3 million cases of breast cancer in the U.S. population that were not
Scanadu hopes its tricorder-like device and a smartphone will help people track their health and diagnose problems.
The birth rate in the United States has dipped to its lowest level on record, led by a decline in births among immigrants.
The light walls simulate sunlight but don't generate UV radiation.
If you love your kids, pack their lunches
Just six months after giving birth to baby Maxwell in May, Jessica Simpson has already lost a whopping 60 pounds.
Medical marijuana is now legal in 18 states, but it's clear we've discovered a fraction of its potential for health.
Scientists at Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a “tissue printer” that “prints” cartilage, the flexible connective tissue that cushions our bones and joints.
Hose Speaker John Boehner says it should be, but with a Democratic president and Senate, the reality could be that Republicans will only be able to chip away at the edges of Obamacare.
Another person has died of a mysterious respiratory virus and three more cases have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Cycling or walking to school increases a child’s ability to concentrate in the classroom, the results of a Danish study published Friday showed.
The makers of the Argos II retinal prosthetic have devised a way to help blind people read Braille. Their first reported tests with a person wearing an Argos II indicate that this method could help blind people with the implant read signs and short s
the World Health Organization announced four new cases of the novel coronavirus that caused a great deal of worry immediately before the October hajj season. (Earlier posts here and here.)
