HEALTH

Actor Nick Cannon has been hospitalized in Colorado for mild kidney failure, his wife Mariah Carey shared on Twitter on Wednesday. But what exactly is this illness that had placed Cannon in the hospital?

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden published a study that shows that gastric bypass cuts the risk of death from heart attack and strokes

Carnie Wilson recently made her debut on the reality-television show Celebrity Wife Swap, trading places with actress Tracey Gold.

Scientists have discovered a single gene that could provide vital clues to treating age-related hearing disabilities affecting approximately 50 percent of people over the age of 60, across the world.

Along with mother's cooking and the family dog, regular exercise is too often among the childish things young adults leave behind when they make the move from home to college.

A new study has linked physical activity to academic performance in children, a finding that could trigger action in the right direction, given the decline in physical activities in most schools.

South Korea has taken a major step to ending an eight-year-old ban on imports of Canadian beef, Canada's agriculture and trade ministers said on Friday.

The H5N1 strain of the flu is extremely dangerous, killing up to 60 percent of people who contract it.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a joint statement, have confirmed there is no need to recall the powdered infant formula manufactured by Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. The agencies tested sealed cans of the Enfamil formula and found no traces of the Cronobacter contamination it was reported to have.

For years, 600-pound Donna Simpson was involved in the feederism community - that is - a community of people with a fat fetish. People would pay her $19 per month to watch her eat.

In a new study, published in the journal Cancer, the use of cholesterol-reducing drugs called statins has been linked with a lower risk of dying from prostate cancer.

Long before the latest global breast implant scare, American health officials were toying with the idea of building a registry that would track patients with implants.

With New Year's Eve around the corner, many feel the looming inevitability of the struggles of the hangover. We offer you 18 tips to fend off the inevitable aches and pains that will plague New Year's Day 2012.

State and Federal lawmakers constantly proposed measures to restrict women's reproductive rights in 2011.

Millions of medical patients are crossing international borders each year to receive treatment in a growing trend known as medical tourism.

Pregnant women who exercised regularly during the second half of their pregnancies did not lower their odds of developing pregnancy-related diabetes in a new clinical trial.

Obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potentially disabling fall -- though the most severely overweight may be somewhat protected from injury, according to a U.S. study.

Many people have put gymming and getting fit as their top New Year resolution, but Britons think otherwise as majority of them believe that gymming is an unnecessary cost, according to a study by moneysupermarket.com.

Viagra has finally been proven as a savior for heart aches. The new discovery on Viagra’s surprising 'relaxing' effect might actually save lives, according to researchers from the Ruhr Universitat Bochum (RUB), Germany in collaboration with colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Fernandez, 58, will undergo an operation on January 4.

Toddlers who have poor relationships with their moms are more likely to pack on extra pounds as they grow up, a new U.S. study shows.

A controversial scientific research connecting the disabling condition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to a mouse leukaemia retrovirus has been retracted by the journal Science owing to allegations that the research data has been manipulated.

For the past decade, cattle ranchers and meat packers watched with despair as America's beef consumption steadily declined, ceding ground to leaner meats as well as vegetarian trends among the health-conscious.

A two-headed baby, Jesus and Emanuel, was born in Brazil this week.The baby appears to be in good health, but suffers from the condition dicephalic parapagus, a rare form of twin conjoinment. We took a look at the case of Jesus and Emanuel as well as seven other birth defects such as conjoined twins, fused limbs, crainopagus parasiticus, anencephaly, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, ectopia cordis and cyclopia.

There are more people 65 years of age and older in the United States than ever before as the growth rate in the population exceed the national average, according to the new data released Wednesday by the Census Bureau.

According to a new report, The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-being, a higher percentage of younger householders than older householders are in poverty today, a 180 degree flip that occurred over the past 40 years.

Researchers have found an important drug target that helps reverse cellular changes in learning and memory. found according to animal study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

The French government is still deciding whether or not to order women to get rid of defective breast implants, made from industrial grade silicone. However, senior officials told Libération newspaper that all French women given prosthetics supplied by the company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) will be ordered this week to remove the implants.

Maria de Nazare, a 23-year-old Brazilian woman has given birth to conjoined twins with one body and two heads- a case of rare conjoined anomaly known as dicephalic parapagus.