A Chinese bus driver who tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus died Saturday in a city bordering Hong Kong, health officials said, in the country’s first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months.
A committed anti-exerciser finds out the healthy life isn’t half bad.
Vitamins, sports drinks, aspirin, peanut butter sandwiches? Nice try, but the only true remedy for a hangover is to not get drunk.
Napping works great for preschoolers. Why not for tired doctors and nurses?
Since August, the CDC has logged 12 cases of human infection with H3N2, a new flu virus from pigs. Should we be worried?
If you’ve ever sat at your desk scarfing a vending-machine lunch, then you’d probably agree with the authors of a recent editorial in the journal PLoS Medicine, who wrote: “[U]nhealthy eating could legitimately be considered a new form of occupational hazard.”
Omega-3s and vitamins may protect your brain’s function and size.
Avastin, the blockbuster drug that just lost approval for treating breast cancer, now looks disappointing against ovarian cancer, too.
Boobs and babes took center stage Wednesday morning as nursing mothers held “nurse-ins” at Target stores across the country to assert their right to breast-feed their children in public.
A powerful and addictive new painkiller is coming down the pike. Can this be anything but an unmitigated disaster?
