Who doesn’t love a fresh fruit bowl or a Mesclun summer salad sprinkled with Parmesan and lemon? In the heat of the season, these...

The Walt Disney Company announced new plans on Tuesday to help combat children obesity. In their efforts to regulate food marketing, they are mandating...

During their pregnancy, women must be extremely cautious and avoid a wide range of things that could potentially harm their child. But now, a...

Soon after Daphne Miller, M.D., began practicing medicine in San Francisco, Calif., she realized that so many of her patients' woes--heart disease, diabetes, cancer--could...

It seems like a silly question, but the ability to recognize friends from foes is an essential survival skill for humans and animals alike....

The wisdom of colonoscopy screening seems obvious. The test enables a physician to examine the lining of the entire colon and to remove small,...

A recent study in the journal Pediatrics caught my eye as it related to childhood obesity. I spend a good deal of time discussing...

The prevalence of mental illness is notoriously hard to track. But a new study of thousands of 65-and-under Americans finds that mental health disabilities...

We lop off broccoli stems, snip away carrot tops and snap woody ends from asparagus without a thought. The mindless tossing of scraps, peels...

Life-span predictions may sound like the stuff of tarot cards and palm readers. But an increasingly sophisticated set of online tools promise to help...