HEALTH & WELLBEING

The Miami man who chewed the face off another man back in May was high on marijuana, not "bath salts." This is the claim now being made by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Department, anyway, which is conveniently targeting marijuana at a time when many American states continue to advance decriminalization legislation.

There is apparent wisdom in the practice among many western parents to kick out of their homes their children once the kids turn 18. A study released Friday confirmed that it is stressful for parents to share their home with their adult children.

Soon enough American consumers will be able to purchase an HIV self-test kit that could effectively and quickly tell if they were infected with the AIDS-causing virus.

US fertility researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas in New Jersey have created 30 healthy babies who have been genetically altered. It has been confirmed that two of these children have the DNA of three parents.

Gift from Matchbox Twenty frontman and wife Marisol will help struggling homeless pets in Puerto Rico.

Why are manufacturers suddenly advertising that their products are made with sea salt? Is it any healthier than other salt?

Severe sleep loss jolts the immune system into action, reflecting the same type of immediate response shown during exposure to stress, a new study reports.

ACT health officials said on Thursday that influenza cases in the capital have reached the same level as last year, confirming at the same time that swine flu or H1N1 is still very much around in Canberra.

Women of varying ages have funny and sometimes silly reasons for going to the gym.Some would go to the gym because of peer pressure, friends who simply cannot do without the other or just to see a crush pumping some iron.

Many hospitals offer residency programs for doctors in training, allowing them to complete the education needed to become practicing physicians.

For the last 20 years, statins have been used to lower cholesterol and prevent future hearts attacks and strokes, but there have been conflicting results about the drugs' benefits in women.

Concerns about safety and ageism are needlessly denying elderly care home residents what is often one of their few remaining pleasures-the right to consensual sex-says La Trobe University's Dr Laura Tarzia, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC) in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

In a world inundated with over-the-counter medicines, prescriptions, and pills to supposedly cure any ailment, it's good to know that there are alternative approaches to preventing disease and maximizing health. Most of these, like eating well, sleeping enough and exercising, seem like simple common sense, but their origins can be traced to a healthcare system thousands of years old called Ayurveda.

In the wake of the ALIVE New York event imploding under allegations of financial mismanagement and obvious fraud nearly all the speakers who had been invited to participate in the event have cancelled and will no longer attend.

The population has been led to believe that birthing in the hospital is the best option to having a safe delivery for mother and baby. While hospitals may provide the best environment for high-risk pregnancies (which account for six to eight percent of births worldwide), there are healthier alternatives for pregnancies that are considered low risk.

The woman behind a recent controversial photo shoot depicting a pair of female Air Force enlisted personnel breastfeeding their infants in uniform has been fired from her civilian job as an X-ray technician, though the company - naturally - says the divisive shoot had nothing to do with it.

Scientists have discovered that plant compounds from a South African flower may in time be used to treat diseases originating in the brain – including depression.

Findings from the first study to implement and evaluate a psychological screening tool for cosmetic surgery patients in routine private practice in the UK are to be reported at Appearance Matters 5, an international conference, organised by the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR), UWE Bristol.

It seems as though every time an American town or city drops the added fluoride chemicals from its water supply, the dinosaur media comes out with its usual talking points about how water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health interventions ever granted by the government to its minions, and that without added fluoride chemicals, everyone's teeth would rot right out of their heads.

A study by researchers at Stanford University Medical Center has found that a popular weight-loss operation is safer and reduces hospital bills when done with minimally invasive techniques rather than open surgery, which requires a large abdominal incision.

Discrimination felt by teenagers based on their social class background can contribute to physiological changes associated with poorer health, according to a new study published online in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Coconut oil is one of the most widely-applicable superfoods available today. Taken internally, its nutritional profile of healthy fatty acids is truly astounding.

A recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the Inspector General contains some shocking new information about vaccines.

Over the past three decades the number of people with asthma has increased significantly in the United States and diet may be to blame.

A team of CIC bioGUNE researchers, led by Dr. Naiara Beraza, have discovered that 'natural killer' (NK) cells are fundamental in the inflammation of the liver during the early stages of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Dozens, if not hundreds, of pharmaceutical drugs are recalled every single year because of contamination or adverse side effects, but many pharmacists and healthcare providers never get the memo.

In today's 'arrested development' culture where adults go into their 20's and beyond behaving like children while the actual children rule over their squeamish, indecisive parents with little candy-coated fists, the fact that something is seriously wrong couldn't be more clear.

Link between unconscious conflicts and conscious anxiety disorder symptoms shown, lending empirical support to psychoanalysis.

It seems important to ensure an adequate Mn intake in girls in order to prevent insulin resistance and diabetes