Dentists may be able to reliably test for diabetes using blood from the gums during routine tooth cleaning. Such testing may be as accurate as standard screening for diabetes.
Legislators in at least 10 states are promoting changes to state laws that make either religious or philosophical vaccination exemptions harder to obtain.
A federal inspector at a primate facility where five monkeys were sickened has tested positive for the same bacteria, but may have been exposed during previous travel abroad to places where the disease is endemic.
Costco told Reuters that it is working to eliminate the sale of chicken and other meats raised with antibiotics vital to human medicine. The move came a day after McDonald's made a similar announcement.
British researchers say that the health benefits of an alcoholic drink a day may be exaggerated. The only people, maybe, who get a protective effect from light drinking when compared to people who never drink are women over age 65.
Scientists or researchers can be obsessed with many things, and this time, they’re turning Internet users’ cheeks red with their new study: the normal size of a penis.
McDonald’s announced that it will gradually stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics that are used in humans. This move will have a large effect on how all chickens are raised in the United States because the fast-food chain is one of the largest buyers o…
A large study has found that eating peanuts and other types of nuts appears to be associated with a decrease in deaths due to cardiovascular disease and to deaths from all causes.
A new study has found that putting a full-service supermarket in food deserts may not help boost healthy eating habits, at least not in the first year after the store opened.
