While young adults say they are committed to avoiding pregnancy, 40 percent of respondents in a new study said birth control was not important because when it is your time to get pregnant, it will happen.
The number of kids treated in emergency rooms after swallowing batteries -- or lodging them in their noses and ears -- has almost doubled over the past 20 years, a new study suggests.
Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition. Piece by piece, the men use knives to cut meat and fat off beef carcasses, and grind them into mounds of hamburger.
Flesh-eating bacteria, or necrotizing fasciitis, has made its way into the news recently after Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old from Georgia, contracted the disease while riding a homemade zip line and lost her left leg due to the condition.
Another 'tanning mom' has emerged just as her predecessor Patricia Krentcil has been banned from at least 63 salons in the tri-state area.
Many psychiatrists believe a new edition of a manual designed to help diagnose mental illness should be shelved for at least a year for further revisions, despite some modifications which eliminated two controversial diagnoses.
A pill used to treat HIV is a step closer to getting the approval of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a drug used to prevent the spread of the virus that causes AIDS.
As states propose new laws intended to sway women from getting an abortion, a new study concludes the strategy is ineffective.
Teen Mom star Jenelle Evans has been nothing but a role model to young MTV viewers. The show has displayed the 21-year-old fighting with her mom over child custody and crying over not being able to smoke pot, but fans are seeing a lot more off the camera. When the cameras aren't rolling, Evans is getting arrested, fighting, getting a boob-job and releasing disturbing before and after topless photos all over the web. What exactly is MTV trying to tell young viewers about being a Te...
Louisiana health officials are recalling oysters and closing an oyster harvesting area in Terrebonne Parish after 14 people became ill eating oysters at a New Orleans restaurant.
Thanks to researchers from Emory University, you may soon know more about what your dog is thinking. The research team, who published their findings in PLoS One, attempted to learn more about human-dog relationships from the perspective of a canine.
America's obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures - from overhauling farm policies and zoning laws to, possibly, introducing a soda tax - to fix it, the influential Institute of Medicine said on Tuesday.
U.S. drug reviewers on Tuesday said Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc's obesity pill appeared to help people lose weight and was unlikely to cause tumors in humans, but questioned if the company had provided enough data to rule out heart problems.
America's losing battle of the bulge shows no signs of abating, with obesity projected to cost a staggering $550 billion in health expenses by 2030.
Brain Freeze -- it's that devastating, instantaneous pain in the temples that one sometimes gets after eating something frozen. And until now, researchers could never quite understand what causes it. While previous studies have found that people who suffer from migraines are actually more likely to get brain freeze, a new study links brain freeze and other headache types to local changes in brain blood flow.
Back in March, 55-year-old grandmother Sharon Simmons made headlines when she announced her plans to audition for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleading squad on May 5. This past weekend Simmons did just that.
The zombie virus infected Amesbury, Mass., this past weekend, when a 5K obstacle race called ?Run For Your Lives? invaded.
An outbreak of a rare strain of salmonella poisoning linked to dog food has infected at least 14 people in nine states, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention said.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement.
Custom officials in South Korea have been cracking down on inspections due to the rise in the smuggling of Chinese-made capsules into the country. The capsules are reportedly filled with powdered human baby flesh.
Mallory Kievman, 13, has not only supposedly cured the hiccups, but has become a CEO in the process. Mallory Kievman is CEO and founder of Hiccupops, a company that might just have cured one of the world's oldest and most annoying conditions.
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera sustained a possible career-ending injury on Thursday night before the Yankees game in Kansas City chasing a fly ball. But how serious is a torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament)?
Seau's family announced Thursday that they will allow research to be performed on his brain.
Turia Pitt was a 24-year-old model who decided to join Racing The Planet's ultra marathon in Australia this past September. What Pitt didn't realize is that participating in the race would change her life forever. Pitt recanted her tale of running through a wall of flames to a parliamentary inquiry earlier this week.
Vogue's glossy pages will have an additional focus to fashion following the June 2012 issue: Health.
The case of Patricia Krentcil, the mother accused of taking her five-year-old daughter to a tanning salon, has not only had an impact by shocking society, but has shed a light on an illness called tanorexia, an addiction to tan skin. After she was arrested and charged with second-degree child endangerment, Krentcil's bronzed face appeared on broadcast news reports, websites and newspapers in photos across the country shedding light on the controversial phenomenon called ta...
Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy has asked to be given Seau's brain for study according to a report in Sports Illustrated.
A new strain of foot and mouth disease (FMD) has reached the Gaza Strip and threatens to spread further after first being detected in Egypt and Libya in February, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.
The Volumetrics Diet Plan, a new weight-loss trend sweeping the nation, is winning people over with its eat more agenda. Unlike diets that revolve around depriving their followers, the Volumetrics eating plan doesn't hold you back when craving a certain type of food.
Atilla Kavdir, Turkey's world-famous triple-limb transplant recipient, is dead after succumbing to heart and kidney failure.
