HEALTH

The New York Blood Center, which serves more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, is the first blood bank to suffer from an urgent need of blood donors because it lost an estimated 2,000 donations during the Hurricane Irene storm.

There's evidence that avian flu is mounting a comeback.

Experts say children and teenagers should not practice boxing because their brains are more vulnerable to acute, chronic injuries and concussions caused by blows to the head.

A rise in the number of reported cases of avian flu, coupled with the appearance of a mutation that could be resistant to vaccines, has led the United Nations to warn of a potential bird flu resurgence.

Experts say children and teenagers should not practice boxing because their brains are more vulnerable to acute, chronic injuries and concussions caused by blows to the head.

An analysis of several studies found that regular consumption of chocolate may reduce the risk for both heart attack and stroke.

Interbreeding with archaic humans like Neanderthals endowed modern humans with key genes that contribute to our greatly improved immune system, according to a new research.

A new prognostic model may predict whether patients with advanced cancer are likely to survive for days, weeks or months, researchers say.

The storm is not over, yet.

Father, stepmother charged in the death of 10-year-old.

A new report says if current trends continue half of all adults in the United States will be obese by 2030. The report calls for government action to stem the trend.

The details about the trials and analysis published in a British Medical Journal, states that Vitamin-A supplement in children aged under five signified 24 per cent reduction in all cause mortality and 28 per cent reduction in mortality associated with diarrhea.

AntiGravity Yoga is a form combining traditional yoga, poses with aerial arts, pilates and dance. This technique is the first in a new genre known as suspension fitness.

Xalkori is a Pfizer drug, and it works by targeting specific genes found certain patients. This gene is called the abnormal anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene and is present in about 1 to 7 percent of non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Many women, especially black women, are harming their health by avoiding exercise, and instead spending a significant amount of time and money on their hair, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin said.

Half of all men and women in the United States could be obese in 20 years, could lead to 65 million more Americans being classified as obese.

A federal survey showed that nearly three-quarters of jobless Americans say they can't afford needed health care or prescription drugs, as the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, which provides medical coverage for the unemployed, is set to expire on Sept. 1.

On the grounds of the Bodyworks weight loss campus in Beijing, 30 tubby men and women sweat profusely, gasping for air as they pound the treadmills in an exercise room.

Currently, about 9.1 percent of Americans are unemployed, according to the most recent statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Women may be avoiding exercise because they are overly concerned with mussed hairdos, according to the United States Surgeon General.

Teen vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV) are trailing behind for two other vaccines recommended for teens and preteens, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As the obesity epidemic continues to escalate, a new study projects that half of the U.S. will be obese by 2030 unless measures to stifle, monitor and prevent obesity are adopted into public policy.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which helped guide the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that funds children who experience side effects from vaccines, has commissioned a report after 17 years that found no link with autism and Type 1 diabetes after taking certain vaccines.

Ministers should now tax unhealthy food as obesity is the most widespread in the U.S. and Britain among the world’s leading economies, experts urged on Friday.

There is a growing group of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, believing that vaccines increase the risk of autism, diabetes, asthma and other ailments. But a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies concludes that adverse effects are extremely rare.

A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services helped guide the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which provides a pool of money to take care of children who experience side effects from vaccines, federal scientists say.

The 95-year-old man was attacked near his home on Wednesday.

FDA approves Botox for those with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis.

Colorado has lowest obesity rate, West Virginia the highest.