Health

Significant benefits found in cardiovascular health and overall quality of life.

Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study on bmj.com today.

Mindless eating leads us to eat 28-45 percent more calories when foods are 'low-fat'

Not so long ago, the actor Tom Cruise made a few pointed criticisms of psychiatry on the Today Show and was widely attacked for doing so. It seems that anyone who speaks out publicly risks drawing the ire of the defenders of psychiatry. Hardly surprising. A great many families in the US and Canada have members who are receiving psychiatric treatment, even if it happens to be one of the kids on a daily dose of Ritalin.

OHSU study shows cognitive changes can be detected by tracking daily activity

A Johns Hopkins study should ease the concerns held by many older adults with mild high blood pressure about the strain or harm exercise could cause their hearts.

Research scientists have spent considerable time investigating the effects of laughter. They have found that laughter can help patients recover from illnesses because it tends to lower blood pressure, reduces stress hormone levels, and recharges the body’s immune system.

Orthodox and natural medicines are both man's attempt to ensure better health, making use of the intelligence and materials that nature has provided him; thus, one approach might not be placed above the other, both should be seen as different approaches to the same problem.

The Vatican is currently involved in an examination of the question whether condom use can be justified when one partner in a Catholic marriage has HIV/AIDS.

Pleomorphism refers to the belief that microorganisms can adopt multiple forms during a single growth cycle. It was originally proposed by a French Scientist and contemporary of Louis Pasteur named Antoine Bechamp.

This doctor’s not-for-profit insights suggest that only one and rarely-used approach to stop smoking tobacco is effective. He is outspoken when stating his stronger beliefs: “No one who knows the root cause of chronic smoking accepts the data indicating the nicotine substitutes for cigarettes truly work.” “Anti smoking and smokers’ rights groups will hate what I’m telling and for the same reason.”

Pancreatic cancer is no longer the immediate death sentence that most people think it is.

Ever since pharmaceutical giant Pfizer promised to cure erectile dysfunction once and for all with its blue pills containing the drug sildenafil citrate, spammers have tried to tap into male anxiety by offering prescription-free sales of unapproved "generic" Viagra and clones such as Cialis soft tabs.

The number of Tb cases in African countries per year has quadrupled since 1990, and continues to rise. Now 540,000 people die of the disease in Africa every year.

According to a new study, some commonly available non-prescription medications may help prevent colon cancer. But there is a downside.