With as much as 80 percent of Brazil under a blanket of smoke from historic wild fires, face masks last used during the ...

Around 1920, when new inventions and innovations were gathering momentum, the United States of America launched the Prohibition Law which banned the transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage ...

If you sit all day working and then sit all night watching television, you still may be in for some health problems.

A neurologist who treats and studies Parkinson's has a personal connection to the disease: Her father-in-law, who played in ...

They join 12 existing factors, ranging from genetics to smoking status, that experts have identified as increasing the risk ... Dementia can be caused by multiple health problems, with most common ...

Health leaders, researchers, advocacy groups, companies and the public have saved millions of lives by reducing the ...

If you're 50 or younger, listen up: Noise pollution in cities has now been linked to cardiovascular problems. There is a ...

Sleep is a basic human need and critical to both physical and mental health, yet almost half of Louisiana residents report ...

There are many hypertension risk factors. Some, we have control over, others we have no say in. Risk factors we have some ...

On television shows like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Resident” and “Chicago Med,” physicians seem to always have the right answer.

A person's reward system is most sensitive during adolescence, yet society is beginning to give young people unlimited access ...

Diet-related diseases are the leading causes of death in the U.S., and a poor diet is responsible for more deaths than smoking. These health problems are not only common and debilitating, but ...