If your New Year's resolution, like many others, is to take it easy for the month of January, you might not be doing yourself any favors.
In 2012, General Mills is planning to announce new Cheerios and Kraft will roll out new flavor combinations for Velveeta Dinner Kits.
Some scientists have engineered a form of the deadly H5N1 virus that is easily transmissible and could cause lethal human pandemics.
According to the British Heart Foundation, more than a quarter of teens make assumptions about the harm of cigarettes from the wrapping.
Researchers looked at 13 different studies to determine which elements of various successful intervention programs were working the best.
Israeli research has found that approximately one in four teens is in danger of early hearing loss from blasting music for hours on end.
The CEO of eMedia Interactive, a medical education app publisher best known for Pocket Body, discusses user-centered design, content models, and reaching a wide audience.
A survey of doctors and nurses who work in intensive care units found that most believe they're spending too much time on individuals.
New research suggests flexible workplaces promote personnel well-being and more healthful behavior from employees.
If lawmakers paid attention to the research, they would tax unhealthy food and beverages and require traffic-light front-of-pack product labels.
The latest facts and figures from the all of the most influential medical journals; newspapers; and health, fitness, and wellness websites.
With the ongoing economic crisis, doctors are seeing a spike in psychiatric emergencies at the same time state budgets are being slashed.
Light-producing chips made up of bacteria that interact with each other could soon be turned into hand-held sensors that respond to toxins.
Nobody likes to be told what to do or how to think. One way to cut down on discrimination, according to a new study, is to explain things as neutrally as possible and let people act.
Tumbling off of the roof while trying to one-up your neighbors' decorations sounds like a gag in a movie, but it happens at an alarming rate.
The interventions that show the most promise are just like those in New York: physical activity and curriculum additions in public schools.
Pasteurized eggs, margarine, sugar, baking soda, and molasses all go through processes to kill pathogens that could make consumers ill.
Without the personnel to do its own inspections of facilities, the FDA increasingly delegates them to state agencies, which fail at the task.
In the developing world, exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open fires kills more people every year than tuberculosis.
Did Congress overstep its boundaries when it passed a healthcare law with an individual mandate? The Supreme Court will decide.