Coca-Cola is allegedly working with fitness and nutrition experts who suggested that soda is a healthy snack. This happens in the midst of controversies surrounding the world's biggest beverage maker as it is being blamed for the increasing obesity rates in th…
The unplanned pregnancies that occur each year in the United States cost taxpayers $21 billion. Public insurance paid for 68% of all unplanned births, compared with 38% of planned births.
Federal officials are concerned over an outbreak of the H5N2 avian flu in Arkansas. The virus can wipe out a flock within 2 days and, like many flu viruses, can mutate.
France may soon ban models that are too thin. Not only will models have to show they are an appropriate weight for their heights, modeling agencies and fashion designers who hire an excessively skinny model may be fined.
A new study reveals that loneliness can lead to poor health for a person. They have shown that being a loner doesn't only affect people mentally and emotionally, but also physically. Worse, scientists say that loners die younger too.
Hot sauce is something pizza eaters can't live without. However, in an incident in Chicago, it actually saved the life of a man by provoking a seizure attack that led to an important health diagnosis.
All drugs have side effects—that’s already a given. Take, for example, this heart drug that protects the person from stroke or heart attack but also increases the risk of bleeding.
Documents from the 1960s and 1970s have revealed that the sugar industry worked closely with the National Institutes of Health to cut back on research that showed sugar was responsible for tooth decay.
Do you have a Blue Bell ice cream in your fridge? Then you’ve been warned. Strains of Listeria have been found in some of their products, forcing the Blue Bell Creameries to issue a recall, the first in over a hundred years.
Stefan Lanka offered 100,000 Euros to anyone who could prove that the measles virus exists. But when David Barden offered him scientific studies as proof, he refused to pay up.
