Catherine Garceau doesn’t go to the pool anymore. The former Olympic swimmer has trained at many fitness centers over the years that smelled strongly of chlorine. While most would assume that means the water is clean, Garceau now knows it’s just the …..

Researchers have identified a genetic abnormality which they believe to be the most common cause of two devastating neurological diseases and could provide future clues to treatment.   

While the United Nations convened for a two day high-level meeting to discuss ways to curb the death toll from non-communicable diseases a celebrity chef asked the General Assembly to focus their attentions on one issue in particular: obesity. …   

To many mothers, it’s just not fair. Nine months of pregnancy, giving birth to a child, and then there’s a lasting, unwelcome reminder of the experience: Varicose veins.  

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University.   

When an ax-wielding man attacked people on the street in Henan Province on Wednesday, the terse media reports created headlines and public panic. Wang Hongbin, 30, killed six people, including two children, and is said to be mentally ill. …   

Are the citizens of your fair city doing what it takes to stay young, or are they growing old too fast?

Doctors at a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital have separated eight-month-old twins who were connected by their pelvis and lower spine.

At a critical moment in the newly released action-thriller movie “Contagion,” the young disease detective, played by Kate Winslet, is using a dry-erase board to drive home the danger of the new virus that has wiped out thousands of people, including …..

A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday that the provision in President Barack Obama’s health care initiative requiring individuals to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. …