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3D displays cause extra eye fatigue, according to a study published by the Journal of Vision today that was funded in part by Samsung's R&D arm.

The results run counter to the idea that more supermarkets can curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods. Better access to supermarkets — long touted as a way to curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods — doesn't improve people's diets, according to new research.

A new U.S.D.A. study says cutting the costs of healthy food has a significant impact on kids' weights. Let's stop subsidizing corn syrup.

A new study suggests that an ingredient in red wine may stave off the effects of not exercising.

Two new studies have linked drinking diet soda to poorer health compared with those who don't drink the beverage.

Nearly 10 percent of the world’s adults have diabetes, and the prevalence of the disease is rising rapidly. As in the United States and other wealthy nations, increased obesity and inactivity are the primary cause in such developing countries as India and in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

One in seven strokes happens at night, and sufferers may not get medicine that could prevent brain damage, suggests a new study.

Deaths from pregnancy-related causes, which usually occur around the time of childbirth, have risen dramatically in the United States in the last decade. In a report released Tuesday, a committee investigating such deaths in California cited an increase in caesarean-section births as a major contributor to the disturbing trend.

Noise is dangerous and excessive noise is potentially deadly, according to a new report on the health effects of noise by the World Health Organization and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center.