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(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Convenient online registration to the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis 2008, at greatly discounted rates, is available only until Oct. 31, 2008.

ROME (Reuters) - Stefano Borgonovo was guest of honor at Wednesday's friendly between former clubs Fiorentina and AC Milan, though he was unable to play.

Mimi Winsberg, a triathlete who once sustained herself with energy bars and pasta, found she had celiac disease, which can only be treated with a gluten-free diet.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia is considering imposing a quarantine in a small northern town in the state of Perak as part of efforts to stem a dengue fever outbreak, a news report said Friday. health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said 175 people in the northern ...

House repossession poses the greatest threat to people's mental health, a charity has warned.

The NHS in England is failing to learn from complaints made to it by patients, a parliamentary watchdog says.

The gut may have receptors that shut down appetite when bitter substances are detected, a study suggests.

There are certain choices patients make that seem to undermine the efforts doctors, nurses and even complete strangers make on their behalf.

They come by the dozen, bandaged and shellshocked, touching down on U.S. soil for the first time since they left home for war. They're greeted by doctors and nurses, who tend to their wounds, and Red Cross volunteers who tell them there's root beer in the fridge and chicken for dinner.

An estimated 113 million Americans, including hundreds of thousands in the Washington region, will receive better insurance coverage for their mental health and substance abuse problems because of landmark legislation that for the first time requires mental and physical illnesses to be treated...