Health

The H1N1 swine flu virus which swept the globe last year has returned to Britain with 10 people dying in the last six weeks, health officials said Saturday.Britain's Health Protection Agency said the 10 deaths ...

If you've ever wondered how crazy America's obsession with weight can get, look no further than this strange trend among some fat-fearing parents: moms who put their babies on diets. And I'm not talking ab...

By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have approved medical marijuanaDank Nation Dispensary for people with chronic or debilitating diseases. The decision makes Arizona the 15th state to have approved a m...

Federal drug regulators unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages on Wednesday, including some that are striking pictures of smoking's effects.   Designed to cover half of a pack...

For millions of Americans who get their health insurance through their job, autumn brings not only falling leaves and cooler breezes, but also difficult choices. That's because it's the time when many employe...

When it comes to health, men really are the weaker sex and this is an imbalance that needs redressing, say experts. Men are more likely to get cancer than women and are also more likely to die from it. Heart di...

A new law passed this week will go into effect on December 1 that makes giving away free toys in unhealthy children’s meals like the popular McDonald’s Happy Meal illegal.  Santa Clara County in California...

Miikka Terho is given the task of reading letters which together misspell his own nameA man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, res...

A 23-year-old British man died after ingesting two spoonfuls of caffeine powder that had the same potency as 70 cans of energy drinks.An inquest over the April death of Michael Lee Bedford from Mansfield, in ce...

An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital...