From month to month and year to year, the tissue in your breasts change. Some of these changes could be breast lumps. How much should you worry about these? And...
Heading out on a summer road trip? You may not realize it, but the windows separating you from the sun's rays aren’t doing a great job of truly protecting you.
Electronic cigarettes are exposing young children in the United States to dangerous levels of nicotine. A new study in the journal Pediatrics found the number of poison control cases involving...
Millions of prescriptions are written for antibiotics each year and a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows nearly a third of them are unwarranted.
Each month, hundreds of cases of detergent packet poisonings are reported. While convenient for busy households, these packets are so concentrated and dissolve so quickly, they can cause more severe...
Like regular eyeglasses, contact lenses can correct near or farsightedness and astigmatism, but, unlike regular glasses, they are actually medical devices that sit directly on your eye.
Baby Boomers are getting older - and taking more medications as they do. One in six are taking a potentially dangerous combination of drugs and supplements, according to a new...
If you are age 50 or older, it's time to schedule a colonoscopy. This life saving screening that can stop cancer before it forms or catch it in its earliest...
Star tennis player Maria Sharapova is facing backlash - and losing endorsement deals - after revealing that she failed a drug test at this year's Australian Open.
It is something that every ski patrol member knows: Most injuries happen at the end of the day. There are two main contributing factors to the “injury magic hour.”