April 20, 2010 -- Experts are urging the FDA to set new federal standards for the amount of salt that food manufacturers, restaurants, and food service companies are allowed to add to their products, suggesting the standards be ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have used the diabetes drug metformin for more than five years may have a lower risk of breast cancer than diabetic women on other treatments, a new study finds.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Added sugars, especially in processed foods and beverages may increase heart disease risk factors. As a diabetic, 46-year-old John Garavito keeps a close eye on his heart health.

People with the skin disease vitiligo may have natural protection against skin cancer, a study suggests. The condition, affecting one in 200, causes pale skin patches that lack pigment and burn easily - leading to an assumed increased risk of skin ...

Unhealthy school lunches pose a threat to national security, according to a group of retired military leaders. Sen. Lugar and Ag. Sec.

By William Fernando Martinez, AP By Fabrice Coffrini, AFP/Getty Images By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY A year ago today, Lyn Finelli, chief of flu surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gathered her team and advised them to ...

WEDNESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- A new voluntary ethics code for how medical organizations should interact with private companies was released Wednesday by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS).

420 Meaning:Why Is 4 20 National Weed Day? - 420 has been around since the beginnings of when people began to smoke marijuana. The exceptionally large amount of people that smoke marijuana in the United States often celebrate this day by smoking ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A variant of an obesity gene carried by more than a third of the US population also reduces brain volume, raising carriers' risk of Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said on Monday.

Tuna that is served as sushi in restaurants was found to be higher in mercury than that found in a supermarket seafood counter, but all species had greater concentrations of the toxic contaminant than is recommended by the US Environmental Protection ...

MILFORD - The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Delaware Valley is just around the corner. Register your team at www.relayforlife.

“Gang-type tattoo” markings found on pelvis, leg of severed body in Arlington Heights include jokers and the letter “C,” police said.

I'll admit,when my awesome colleague Victoria Colliver pointed me to the "Buckets for a Cure" Web site today, I thought it was a hoax.

You don't hear much about AIDS in America anymore. The few new headlines are reserved for dispatches from the developing world, where the dying young still make good old-fashioned heart-wrenching copy.

With pressure toward more spending from state courts, healthy state revenues and the coming election season, lawmakers approved more than $3 billion in capital spending plus before ending this year's legislative session about 35 minutes ...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. The mayor of a Connecticut city found something else there: a constituent who needed her kidney.