Children in a poor region of northern Colombia have probably already started their journey that will end next month when they meet a Nyack plastic surgeon in an operating room.
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Frightening news Monday out of Britain. In an attempt to appease British health officials, candymakers there are planning to downsize or eliminate king-size candy bars, the Brit press reported.
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For men, flagging potency can be a red flag that something's not right in the cardiovascular system. And experts say men who rush to fix the problem with impotence drugs may be ignoring a bigger threat to their health.
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It has long been suspected that man's best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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Beyond the tired cliches and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realized.
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Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other children, Swedish scientists said Friday.
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The health benefits of regular walking may include helping prevent mental decline and Alzheimer's disease, research in patients aged 70 and up has found, bolstering evidence that exercise needn't be strenuous to be good for you.
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The government is taking steps to reduce the already minimal risk of mad-cow tainted components ending up in childhood vaccines and other medications.
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Thousands of patients were warned today they may have been exposed to vCJD through blood plasma products. The Department of Health said more than 6,000 people ...
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