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busy American lifestyle is making it increasingly difficult to eat the right foods, exercise and stay healthy. Between work, family time, household chores and errands, there can be little free time left to focus on preparing nutritious meals. Americans

CHICAGO – A leading medical group says there's some evidence that probiotics, or "good" bacteria, may have limited benefits for certain illnesses in children.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – New depression treatments favor a tailored approach and include recommendations for the use of shock therapy and other alternatives, including exercise when people fail to get relief from drugs.

The holiday season is a great time for family, friends, and well, old wives' tales: Who hasn't been told to wear a hat because you lose the most heat from your head? Or to keep kids away from poisonous poinsettias?

We call them fruits and veggies. Denise calls them brainy foods. The more of these she feeds her son, the less ADD medication he needs

Story Highlights Study shows 1 in 5 U.S. veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan has PTSD, depression  

NEW ORLEANS -Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ult

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heart disease is more common in patients with panic attacks than in the general population, British investigators have found. The risk is particularly high among patients below the age of 50, who are also more likely to experience a heart attack.

Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team — a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian. "I get a lot of flak for it in the locker room," said the 16-year-old junior at Westborough High School in Massachusetts. "All the time, my friends try to get me ...

THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Recent outbreaks of whooping cough highlight the need for adults to be vaccinated against this highly contagious disease, U.S. health officials said Thursday.

The World Health Organization declared that shift work involving disruption of the body‘s natural circadian rhythm is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Despite this news, nurses who staff the graveyard shift should not become alarmed

Blood transfusions to treat anemia in patients with cancer appear to be no better than medications in the risk of life-threatening blood clots, according to an examination by the University of Rochester in New York.

(OPRAH.com) -- The bounce in your step has become a plod. Climbing stairs feels like summiting Mount Everest. Your brain's mired in fog. Whatever your personal energy crisis might be, it's time to act. "Fatigue that's new or dramatic, prolonged or unexplained can signal a serious medical problem like heart disease or anemia," says Dr. Lori Mosca, M.D., director of preventive ...

For years, at the very first sign of a cold John Musumeci would break out the zinc and vitamin C. But this year, like many other Americans, he’s decided his money may be better spent elsewhere.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study confirms there is a link between type 2 diabetes and an increased risk of colon cancer -- but the added threat may be less than previous research has suggested, and seems to be fading among women