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Until very recently, nobody really thought it would be possible to extend a person’s lifespan much beyond a century. Now some scientists are saying that immortality, or something very much like it, might be just around the corner. They say it might even be a possibility for people living today.
Dieters who can’t stomach the idea of going hungry seven days a week just got good news: You might be able to drop more weight if you cut back on carbs just two days a week.
The apple and grape juice your kids are drinking may have arsenic at levels high enough to increase their risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, according to a new study by Consumer Reports.
When it comes to the heart, vitamin D can be a double-edged sword.
When the letter came, Kirk Watson and his wife just sat down and cried.
Lauren Wargo’s surgery was supposed to be a simple procedure – just a quick operation to remove a mole from her face. But the operation went terribly wrong when the surgeon’s electro-cautery device sparked a fire that flashed over the 20-year-old woman, leaving her with second degree burns on her face and much of her neck.
People tend to notice when women binge on food — men, not so much. And that may explain why many people think that binge eating is just an women's eating disorder.
You’re thin, your cholesterol and blood pressure are good, and nobody in your family has ever had a heart attack – so you figure you must be safe from heart disease. New research suggests you could be dead wrong.
Stacie Crimm didn’t get to share much time with her infant daughter, Dottie Mae — she’d made the ultimate sacrifice to give the little girl life.
Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have jumped over the last decade, a new government report shows. Doctors are divided whether it means more kids are getting hurt or parents are being more careful about their children's head injuries.
There are two types of people in the world: those who remember everything exactly as it happened and those who have a tendency to muddle what’s happened with what’s imagined.
People try to slim down for a lot of reasons, but Kari Roberts may have one of the best -- losing weight has given her a chance to save her brother’s life.
Liposuction may do more than just slim down your waistline — it might also help your heart, a new study shows. Within three months of the slenderizing procedure, patients’ triglyceride levels had dropped an average of 43 percent, according to a report presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Denver. Triglycerides, fats in the blood, have been linked in other studies to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The new findings were a surprise even to the study’s author, Dr. Eric Swanson, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Leawood, Kansas.
The controversial chemical BPA may be lurking in the child-friendly canned foods you’ve been serving your kids for dinner, a new report suggests.
Parents are always obsessing about peer pressure. And why not? It seems that everywhere we look, there are warnings that kids’ friends can lead them into mischief.
The are a graphic reminder of just how far drug smugglers will go to elude law enforcement to get their product over the border. The images, which show an arrested man’s digestive tract that is literally stuffed with dozens of thumb-sized bags of cocaine, are also testimony to how far the digestive tract can expand.
Ever since she was a little girl, mealtime has been a torture for Adah Siganoff. The eating sounds – the chewing, the slurping, the chomping – drove Adah to distraction. The noises grated on her nervous system, sparking anxiety and rage. To this day, she can’t sit next to her husband at dinner time – she has to go to the peace and quiet of another room to eat.
High doctors’ salaries and climbing fees may be the major reasons that health care costs are so much steeper in the United States than in other developed countries, a new study concludes.
Common anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and naproxen may increase the chance of miscarriage if they are taken early in pregnancy, a new study suggests.
When Ralph Polanec collapsed June 25 at his Washington, D.C., gym, staff members thought they could save him with a shock from their automated external defibrillator. But when they tried to turn it on, nothing happened. The device didn’t even flicker. The gym’s staff later discovered that the AED’s batteries had been removed when they lost their charge — and had never been replaced.
A new generation is turning to plastic surgery to mold the perfect bodies they’ve always craved: seniors. Sherri Cook is riding that wave. Today, at 75, she’s getting breast implants and a breast lift so she can keep looking as young as she feels.
Passengers riding on an Amtrak train headed to Virginia from Boston last week may have been exposed to measles, according health officials. The passenger, who was visiting the United States on vacation, had some symptoms when he boarded the Amtrak Northeast Regional Train #171 on Aug. 17 in Philadelphia. But he didn’t know the cause until he sought care from a doctor in Virginia later, said Dr. Keri Hall, director of the Virginia Department of Health.
Nearly one in 10 children in the United States is being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a new government study.
After two years of living behind a veil, Charla Nash revealed on TODAY the new face that science has given her, a visage that replaces the one mangled in a vicious attack by a friend’s pet chimpanzee that left her without a nose, eyes or lips.
The heart-related deaths of two New York City triathlon competitors has once again opened the question of whether extreme exercise can be dangerous, or even deadly.
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