Though the connection between smoking and cancer may now seem like a given, it was only uncovered after many years of research. These field-changing studies are continuing today.

As the busiest part of the holiday season approaches, it can be hard to finish an endless to-do list before leaving on vacation. Don't forget to plan ahead and refill your prescriptions.

Wintertime is a time of gift-giving and festive holidays, when joy is supposed to ring through the air like the jingles of Salvation Army bell ringers. So why do you feel so sad?

Thanksgiving may pose a challenge for diabetes patients, but it doesn’t have to take the stuffing out of the celebration. Some planning can help keep the difficulties to a minimum.

As you raise your glass in a toast to celebrate the season, you’ll be happy to know you might be giving your health some good tidings. That is, as long as your glass is filled with red wine.

'Tis the season of heaping plates, sweet treats, endless holiday parties, lazy days off work and all-too-often, expanding waistlines.

It's every parent's nightmare: you lay your baby down to sleep, and she never wakes up. But sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is rare, and there are ways you can reduce your child's risk.

When a woman learns she has breast cancer, she may go into something of a twilight zone. She might be in shock for a while, stunned to learn she has a disease every woman fears.

Once upon a time, when a baby was born, it might be months or years before parents could learn about a serious condition the child had. That all changed in the 1960s with the introduction of newborn screening.

Drums pounding or fish flopping in the chest are ways that people describe atrial fibrillation ( AFib ). During AFib Awareness Month this September, get to know the symptoms and how to best control the disease.