Health & Fitness

For nearly a century, insulin has been a life-saving diabetes treatment. Now scientists are testing a tantalizing question: What if…

Sticking to a vegan diet could be one of the best ways to lose weight, according to a new study…

The availability of indoor tanning outside of tanning salons may promote risky use because of lax regulation, US researchers say.Outside…

In an international study, plastic surgeons from different countries had varying preferences for the ideal size and shape of breasts…

Women with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be at an increased risk for heart attacks and strokes, suggests…

Scientists have identified a key gene used by poppies to make morphine, paving the way for better methods of producing…

Drinking the caffeine equivalent of more than four espressos a day is harmful to health, especially for minors and pregnant…

Only about one in eight people with so-called pre-diabetes, often a precursor to full-blown disease, know they have a problem,…

Using data from two long-term studies of women and men, researchers found a potential link between citrus consumption and malignant…

A Liberian has died of Ebola in the first recorded case since the country at the heart of an epidemic…