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A young woman on trial for killing her newborn baby had a mind that was 'disturbed by mental illness' after she gave birth, a clinical psychologist told a jury in Edmonton Friday. Expert witness Dr. ...

An urgent public debate on the trend for women to delay motherhood is needed, leading doctors say.

SEATTLE (MedPage Today) -- Chronic insomnia along with a short sleep duration as confirmed in sleep studies was linked to excess mortality in men, but not women, researchers here said.

High-quality one-stop breast clinics could be the most effective way to spot breast cancer early, a study published in the British Journal of Cancer* reveals today .

Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is 'brown fat' -- the kind that burns calories, according to a study that found adults have much more of this type of fat than previously thought. The results suggest a new way to treat obesity.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG said Friday a swine flu vaccine could be on the market by the fall, as Morocco reported its first case in a young woman who had been in Canada.

The victim, a girl who was in the sixth grade at the Urban Assembly school for Criminal Justice in Brooklyn, was the first public school student to die of swine flu. Her death was among three announced on Thursday.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer that strikes before a women turns 40 and it often goes undiagnosed until it is late stage. African-American women are at high risk for triple negative breast cancer, as are women with the BRCA1 mutation. Being vigilant about your breast health is especially important for women at high risk, so knowing your risk factors for triple negative breast cancer is important.

For pregnant women, snoring may mean more than just sleepless nights for their husbands.

Cigarette makers concern over packaging makes sense. As restrictions on conventional tobacco marketing have increased, the packs have become more and more valuable unfettered advertising space. Tobacco companies increasingly rely on packaging as one of their last best methods of image building. Packs are both a way to create a presence in stores and to communicate what the brand is about. According to a study of tobacco company documents made public through litigation, the industry's own market testing results 'indicate that such imagery is so strong as to influence smoker's taste ratings of the same cigarettes when packaged differently.' The study found tobacco companies carried out systematic and extensive research to ensure that cigarette packaging appeals to selected target groups, including young adults and women. The bill that passed today directly requires bold health warnings on both sides of a pack of cigarettes, a move countries like Brazil, Australia, Thailand and Singapor