It may taste good, but health experts have warned that water pipes, shisha or hookahs, which have been popular in the Middle East and North Africa for decades, may be more harmful than cigarettes.
Researchers have come up with a scoring system that may give physicians a way to determine which older people are at high risk for problems with memory and thinking
It’s always relaxing to end the day with a nice glass of wine with some good music and perhaps a few intimate friends. But watch out: according to a lawsuit in California, some of these wine bottles may be deadly, containing very high levels of arsenic.
Children who are conceived through assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization, are twice as likely to be autistic as those who are conceived naturally, but this other factors may be at work.
About half of teens who are more than 100 pounds overweight had high blood pressure and that 14% were diabetics. Seventy-five percent had high levels of a protein that is linked to heart disease.
A tablet device developed by Google can withstand being drenched in chlorine and can be used even when wearing gloves will aid health practitioners in caring for patients with Ebola. It was designed by technology volunteers and Google in order to prevent cross…
Physicians resort to antipsychotics despite their known damaging effects. In fact, these drugs may actually hasten the dying process in dementia patients, a new study suggests.
The FDA-approved drug doubled the amount of time that patients with Hodgkins lymphoma survived without any progression in their disease, a new study shows.
