Among impaired drivers, fatally injured drivers, and motor vehicle crash victims, marijuana is the most prevalent illegal drug that has been detected,

Elena Losina, co-director of the Orthopedics and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, says replacement joints can

Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria on Friday observed a holiday traditionally associated here with bees and honey.

An Illinois man was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes

Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for

Scientists say they "serendipitously" discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer quickly reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice.

In a very small group of patients, sending electrical impulses to a memory-center in the brain - via tiny implanted electrodes - may have improved their

The truth of the matter is this: most Americans overeat, particularly the bad stuff. Recent attempts to list calories at chain and fast-food restaurants hasn’t

Advocates for the mentally ill are suing the state of New Hampshire, saying it needlessly confines the disabled in mental wards because it lacks services to

Nearly 33 percent of adults who saw a doctor in the previous year said they were told to exercise. That was up from about 23 percent in 2000, the Centers for

Biotech drugs have never faced generic competition because the FDA did not have power to approve copies of such medications. The Obama administration's 2010

While the perception is that suicides occur most commonly among young adults, statistics show that suicides are more likely to occur as people age.

A carb overload sets off a physiological chain reaction that wreaks havoc on the body. It also taxes the adrenals, suppresses the immune system for hours after

Models are more than just pretty faces. They're often overworked, underfed and underage independent contractors with little say when things go bad behind the

More than half of doctors surveyed admitted describing someone's prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy. Nearly 20 percent said they hadn't fully disclosed