In a study published in the online journal Environmental Health, researchers set out to outline the link between breast cancer risk and workplace exposure to carcinogens and toxic substances. Scientists found that exposure to hormone disruptive chemicals is prevalent...
As the childhood obesity epidemic continues (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that 1/5 of American children are obese), public health officials continue to look at ways...
It would be hard to heat up your love life if, after "50 First Dates" with the same guy, your amnesia made it impossible to remember who you'd met, or even what you thought of him. But, unlike Drew...
Weight gain is hard on the ego, but it's even harder on your heart--especially when that weight is centered around your middle.
Fat is dangerous to the heart, and not only because it increases the risk for conditions that contribute...
Blame it on craft beers, inexpensive wine or the down economy - North Americans are sipping more alcohol, more often. (Twenty-two percent of you say you drink too much, up from 17 percent a decade ago.)
We all know that obesity rates in the US are staggeringly high. And the sad part is, according to a recent study at Rice University, they are higher for people in poorer neighborhoods – and the most negatively affected...
Curious about the long term effects of meditation on the brain, researchers from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital examined functional MRI (fMRI) images of individuals who completed meditation training for two different types of meditation practice – mindful...
When Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef mixed it up in the spaghetti Western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," they had a lot of guts - in fact, the title could have been describing your...
Medical researchers have known for a long time that kidney disease can lead to renal failure. In one of the first studies to examine the overall impact of kidney disease, researchers from Temple University, University of Maryland and University...
Drinking one 20-ounce bottle of soda daily for a year can pack on 25 extra pounds! But when the NYC Board of Health banned sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces, special-interest groups insisted that sugar in soda...
