Makeup sketch books for popular tween girl's toy Bratz have been recalled because of a risk of Staph infection.

The cause of multiple sclerosis (MS) remains a mystery, but scientists have gathered clues over the years. Now, research is pointing towards a virus that may be linked to MS.

Gaining weight during pregnancy is essential and inevitable, but researchers found that gaining too much weight can lead to an overweight baby.

Actos and Competact, two top-selling type 2 diabetes drugs, have been pulled off the markets in France and Germany following studies linking the medications to bladder cancer.

Our bodies make a hormone called leptin that regulates our appetite. It may be that this hormone could also be useful in regulating depression.

According to a recent study, young lesbian and bisexual women are not monitoring their sexual health as actively as heterosexual young women. 

If this mule can pull, let's hitch him up. Once again, aging men may be expecting less of themselves than they should. Once accepted notions regarding aging and its accompanying consequences are being challenged. Consequences of unhealthy aging make for lower testosterone levels.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of Americans, but perhaps thousands of those deaths could be prevented every year with the greater implementation of medications as simple as beta blockers and cardiac devices such as implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.

German authorities initially blamed the E. coli outbreak on Spanish cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce, then backtracked. Then they pinpointed sprouts from northern Germany but that also turned out to be a false start.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today a drug used by poultry producers since the 1940s will be suspended from the market after the discovery of inorganic arsenic, but stressed that continuing to eat chicken poses no health threat.