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Music, agriculture, exercise, foreign language and horse-therapy programs are part of a multi-pronged effort that the Rev. James ...

Depression in pregnant women could help explain the growing problem of preterm delivery, scientists suggest.

USA TODAY asked four dietitians who blog at dietchallenge.usatoday.com to come up with creative ways to feed a family of four ...

Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation has announced that the Company's latest multi-center U.S. study of NX-1207, its investigational drug for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is nearing completion.

According to trials, a new obesity drug, Tesofensine, which may be launched on the world market in a few years, can produce weight loss twice that of currently approved obesity drugs. The Danish company Neurosearch and a number of researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen are behind the promising findings.

The government have agreed to a key recommendation of the review of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in Schools to make PSHE, including SRE, a compulsory part of the curriculum from Key Stages 1 to 4.

Main Points -- Data is being published on Referral to Treatment (RTT) times for patients whose 18 week clock stopped during August 2008. -- Data for admitted patients (patients whose 18 week clock stopped with an inpatient/ day case admission) has been published each month since January 2007 on an unadjusted basis. See statistical notes.

Scientists at Dana-Farber cancer Institute have identified a previously undetected trigger point on a naturally occurring "death protein" that helps the body get rid of unwanted or diseased cells. They say it may be possible to exploit the newly found trigger as a target for designer drugs that would treat cancer by forcing malignant cells to commit suicide.

LONDON (AP) -- Want to lose weight? Try eating. That's one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling full....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem....