Health & Fitness

Women who carry an inherited fault in the BRIP1 gene are three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than…

Doctors tend to get less aggressive care before death than the average person, a new study finds. The question of what…

Getting too little sleep during the week can increase some risk factors for diabetes, but sleeping late on weekends might…

When mothers eat three sizeable servings of fish each week during pregnancy it may benefit children’s brains for years to…

Pregnant women should avoid traveling to Latin America and Caribbean countries that have outbreaks of a tropical illness linked to…

An official says the World Health Organization hopes to eradicate polio in 2016, after containing outbreaks in conflict-ridden Syria, Iraq…

The anti-hepatitis C Harvoni drug, made by US company Gilead, will be available on the Egyptian market within days, Mohie…

Drivers over age 80 or women over age 70 who take the prescription sleeping pill Ambien tend to have more…

Psychological therapy may yield greater benefits if providers can meet patients' preferences, a UK study suggests. Most of the nearly 15,000…

When doctors are asked to perform virginity testing, they should refuse because it’s not medically necessary and may cause psychological…