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Seasonal allergy symptoms usually last from seven to ten days with some of the predominant symptoms are nasal discharge that is clear, thin and watery discharge.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers not to eat mamey-flavored ice cream sold under the La Nuestra brand because of potential health risks.

Give excuses, such as "I don't have time," a much-deserved timeout with tips from dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner and author Bill Phillips.

A new study finds that two types of chemical compounds found in ginger -- gingerols and phenols -- can be used as an analgesic to treat muscle pain.

The rituals of college -- making new friends, studying until dawn, excessive partying -- can stress out any young adult. But students with bipolar disorder, or those at risk for the condition, are even more vulnerable in a college environment.

A ninth baby has died in California from whooping cough, health officials said Thursday.

Bacteria that are able to survive every modern antibiotic are now cropping up in many U.S. hospitals and are spreading outside the USA.

Are you pessimistic, chronically worried and stressed-out, and ill at ease socially?

An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.

Most Americans still don't eat vegetables often enough, and fruit consumption is actually dropping a little, according to a new government report released Thursday.