You're smart. You know life is no storybook. But admit it: Somewhere deep in your subconscious lurk romantic visions of Cinderella, or maybe Julia Rob...
ATLANTA — A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how seri...
I have a rare blood type--AB , which only 4 percent of the U.S. has--and secretly, I always thought it made me kind of special, even though I had no b...
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush will be judged on what he did. He will also be remembered for what he's like: a fast-moving, phrase-mangli...
s people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" pr...
ABCNews.com rounded up some of the most popular diets of the New Year, based on recent news and search-engine queries. We then subjected these diets t...
Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a fan to clear the air for their children, but experts now have identified a related threat to childr...
Amalia Dominguez was 18 and desperate and knew exactly what to ask for at the small, family-run pharmacy in the heart of Washington Heights, the thriv...
The end of the holidays, cold weather and economic gloom will make today one of the most stressful days of the year for returning to work. But expe...
SCIENTISTS have discovered true love. Brain scans have proved that a small number of couples can respond with as much passion after 20 years as most p...
The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, who died January 2. I don't want ...
Physical activity has many proven benefits. It strengthens bones and muscles, improves mental health and mood, lowers blood pressure, improves chol...
Millions of children and adults have seizures in the United States, but dying from one is rare. That only adds to the confusion and mystery surroundin...
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of s...
ATLANTA — Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal rep...
WASHINGTON — Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services incre...
CHICAGO — Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, acco...
One New Year's Day, on the brink of my fiftieth year, I took stock of my life--and the tally was grim. I was alone after a long marriage, seemingly do...
Tom Hodgkinson's books sometimes end up in bookstores' self-help sections. That would make How to Be Idle and The Freedom Manifesto the only books to ...
NEW YORK — Babies do better after a scheduled Caesarean section if they're born no sooner than seven days before their due date, a new large stu...
U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics, and said on Wednesday they might...
It's often said that today's kids are selfish and materialistic. They don't appreciate what they have. They obsess over the latest fashions, video gam...
I'm going to get right to the point. Can you please stop wearing really ugly wigs in your relatively mediocre movies?
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 ...
Children who want to be vegetarians need to "fill in the blanks" of their low-protein diets by eating alternatives to red meat, fish and poultry, expe...
