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Drinking less can also reduce the risk of dementia in later part of life. Healthcare officials believe that drinking alcohol has physical as well as mental impacts.

New Year's resolutions are often quickly broken - here are some tips on keeping goals for 2015.

A genetic link may be affecting obesity, but mostly for those born in World War Two or later - why?

There's still no cure for multiple sclerosis but a small study involving stem cell treatment shows dramatic decrease in disease progression that may be worth checking out.

Medicare-like rates encouraged doctors to join Medicaid. But now that payment cuts will be implemented once the New Year starts, its effects may start reflecting on the kind of care that will be left available to members...

Malaria kills more people in West Africa than Ebola. More than half a million people die due to malaria each year across the world and 90 percent of the total malaria fatalities occur in Africa.

Different people react differently to different things. All women, however, are likelier to have worse allergies than men, no thanks to estrogen, according to a study.

Three Texas-based companies are recalling some of their meat products due to ingredients that contain an undeclared allergen, which could cause serious and even deadly reactions in certain individuals.

The population of the U.S. is estimated to be 320,090,857 on Jan. 1, 2015, an increase of 0.73 percent when compared to Jan. 1, 2014. The Census Bureau suggests one birth per second in the U.S. in January 2015.

Older adults with fit heart and lungs retain sharp memory, reveals a new study. Researchers compared cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) of old and young adults for the study.

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(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer cells. The team's complex mix of ge...

(Northwestern University) Northwestern University researchers created a synthetic graft for ACL reconstruction that integrates with the native bone, promotes growth of new ligament tissue, and stabilizes the knee.