Health, Study | featured news

More than half of U.S. adults age 20 and older take vitamins or other dietary supplements, a new government study shows.

Given the bind that many prominent American men have thrust themselves into — think Tiger Woods, Mark Sanford, Eliot Spitzer, et al. — it seems it really is possible to have too much of a good thing. And your prostate gland appears to agree.

Keep working, have a sense of purpose—and don’t try to be happy. That’s the upshot of a couple of recent reports on several extensive studies.

With unemployment still high, job seekers who have been discouraged by a lack of work might be inclined to take the first opportunity they're offered.

Drinking coffee appears to offer protection against stroke, a major study of women out Thursday concludes.

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 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.

Taking short breaks from sitting, even for only one minute, might whittle your waistline and improve your heart health, according to a new study.