The medical neglect in our prisons is too-often accepted by the public as just another price paid by those who commit crimes.

A team of French researchers has developed an artificial heart that resembles and beats almost exactly like the real thing. The news is providing ren...

LONDON — About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments _ usually drugs or vitamins that won...

As anyone who "practices" as a doctor knows that what they are being asked to do on a daily basis is somewhat of a miraculous task.

Once doctors sat in their white coats and stared at you from the other side of their desks, or wrote papers that went into journals. Now they make their views known to the world.

I guess someone told Fox that they are getting a lot of advertising dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, and what I had to say might not make some people happy.

Cancer patients have seen their tumours blasted into submission by a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells. The 'serial killer...

"It's a little bit like a free lunch without the calories," says Dr. Ronald Evans, lead researcher of the Salk group. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... exercise in a pill! Wait -- we've been promised this before...

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

Breastfeeding saves lives and money. Yet most women do not even meet their own breastfeeding goals, not to mention those set by the government.

Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won't make the hair gr...