Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients present unique challenges to treating physicians, but their specific needs may not be getting enough attention in some medical schools. …   

The number of adults in the United States who smoke declined by about 1.5 percent, or 3 million people, from 2005 to 2010, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Firefighters exposed to toxic dust and fumes clogging the air after the World Trade Center towers collapsed 10 years ago are more likely to develop cancer, according to a new study. …   

A new high-tech monitor, designed by Dutch electronics giant Philips, could help ease the physical plight brought about by your mental exertions at work.  

For “uncontacted” peoples, like the isolated tribe that went missing last month, a first encounter can be disastrous.   

When it was first invented, soda pop was a treat most people had once in a while for special occasions.

James Powell could barely speak on the day he died; cancer had confined him to bed and heavy painkillers left him only semi-lucid. Yet the mood was almost celebratory as 25 people — family, friends and volunteers — gathered in a large living room ……

A U.S. presidential commission has uncovered more details regarding human experiments conducted by American researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s in which the subjects were exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.   

Is musical stimulation key to fighting Alzheimer’s?

Cholesterol-lowering medications like Lipitor seem to protect the body against more causes of death than just cardiovascular disease.