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Preventing back pain might be as easy as getting up from your chair and walking every couple hours.

People who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events, including stroke and heart attack, found a new study that followed 2,500 New Yorkers for nine years.

Study finds that breast-fed babies who are fed solids before 4 months are not at increased risk later on.

A surprising number of U.S. cities have drinking water with unhealthy levels of chemicals and contaminants. If you live in Pensacola, Fla., you may want to invest in a water purifier.

Health officials say only about half of U.S. adults with high levels of bad cholesterol are getting treatment. Worse, not all those treated are managing to control the problem....

The government also urged Americans to avoid sugary drinks and drink water instead and to read labels to pick soup, bread and frozen meals with less salt.

U.S. health officials have raised their estimate of how many Americans have diabetes to nearly 26 million.

A study of more than 300 children, ages 4-10, in a medical journal finds that as shut-eye drops, BMI goes up.

Sleeping with your pets can make you sick.

From Hollywood studios to Japanese TV makers, powerful business interests are betting 3-D will be the future of entertainment, despite a major drawback: It makes millions of people uncomfortable or sick.Optometrists say as many as one in four viewers have problems watching 3-D movies and TV, either because 3-D causes tiresome eyestrain or because the viewer has problems perceiving depth in real life. In the worst cases, 3-D makes people queasy, leaves them dizzy or gives them headaches.