Health & Fitness

Canada took a significant step towards allowing dying people to seek medical help to end their lives after Prime Minister…

An American study has linked marriage to higher survival rates in cancer patients. Contrary to popular belief, a couple's socio-economic status…

Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute…

Many families are confronted with the harsh reality of Alzheimer's when a family member suffering from the disease no longer…

Replacing animal fat in the human diet with vegetable oil seems not to lower heart disease risk, and might even…

Twenty-one people have died of yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, some of them from infections contracted in…

The first examination of a long-extinct Neanderthal's Y chromosome suggests that fertility problems may have prevented Neanderthal men from successfully…

At any age, taking antibiotics is known to disrupt naturally occurring gut flora by killing certain good bacteria.Medical professionals sometimes…

One day, cardiac patients may enjoy a new lease on life with pig hearts beating in their chests, said researchers…

Physical exercise could be an effective way of reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia says a new study by UCLA.The findings…