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.
Jennifer Lynn Mothershead, the 29-year-old Washington state mother of a 15-month-old girl was charged with first degree child abuse on Monday. Doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital were shocked to discover that Mothershead had been administering bleach into her young daughter's eyes.
College football players suffer knee injuries about 40 percent more often when playing on an artificial turf versus grass, according to a U.S. study. The findings, published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, were part of research that looked back on knee injuries among college football players to see when they might be most vulnerable to getting hurt.
A federal judge Monday blocked a Texas law that booted Planned Parenthood from receiving state funding under a women's health program.
Yet another conservative state has rejected personhood legislation, which would outlaw abortion by declaring fertilized embryos have the same rights as living human beings.
Stendra, the first new drug to enter the erectile dysfunction market in nearly a decade, aims to become the new Viagra alternative after receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Tennessee's House of Representatives has passed a bill updating the state's abstinence-based sex education law to specifically aim at the prevention of gateway sexual activity. Senate Bill 3310 defines gateway sexual activity as sexual contact encouraging an individual to engage in a non-abstinent behavior, though the term sexual contact is not defined in the bill.
Many women may think birth control pills and condoms are better at pregnancy prevention than they actually are, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 4,100 women who were seeking birth control, about 45 percent overestimated the effectiveness of the Pill and condoms.
Cracking down on dietary supplements containing a substance popularly known as DMAA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued warning letters to 10 distributors and manufacturers, citing the companies for marketing the products without submitting evidence of their safety to the agency.
A 13-year-old autistic Bronx boy who went missing three days ago was found and returned to his family. His odyssey highlighted the challenges highlighted during National Autism Awareness Month.
Gentlemen, the next time someone reaches for your junk you better run. Last week a Chinese woman reportedly killed a man by squeezing his testicles while in a fight over a parking space.
Gregg Allman has postponed his planned book tour for health reasons. Allman, 64, is scheduled to undergo heart tests on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., the same facility where he underwent a liver transplant in June 2010.
Miley Cyrus is once again in the middle of a controversy. It's not her bra-less outings, too-skinny body or table dancing that is turning heads. New tweets and photos reveal that the starlet might be cutting herself.
For many women wearing heels is just another painful thing they do for beauty. However, for a small few, the pain of wearing high heels is compounded by the pain of plastic surgery to fit into them.
Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila is pregnant. The reason why the Mexican woman is making headlines is that she's not pregnant with one, two or even three babies. Perez is pregnant with nine babies, six girls and three boys.
Republicans on Thursday issued a politically charged report that quoted President Barack Obama's corporate advisers as predicting his 2010 healthcare overhaul would raise - not lower - the cost of care.
Speculation turned into confirmation Wednesday when Aubrey Huff's disappearance from the San Francisco Giant starting lineup was explained. A serious performance anxiety attack has placed the Giants first baseman on the 15-day disabled list
Aubrey Huff of the San Francisco Giants was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to anxiety.
Many Americans misuse or abuse prescription drugs, according to research by Quest Diagnostics.
Speaking on the American Family Association radio show, Governor Bryant implied that Democrats aim to kill children in the womb.
When Odei Antwi-Agyei had the chance of introducing vaccines to prevent Ghana's children dying of diarrhea, or vaccines to stop them dying of pneumonia, he did what no African immunization chief has done before. He said he'd do both at the same time.
According to the results of a 29-year study, women who go through menopause are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with symptoms of osteoporosis at some point later in life. Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones that reduces its mineral density. As a result, bone microarchitecture deteriorates and the amount and variety of proteins in the bone is altered.
Doctors administer blood transfusions far too often, causing unnecessary cost and unnecessary risk, according to a new study.
