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The young age of recruits, cycles of activity and boredom, and general attitudes about alcohol use are all parts of Navy culture that contribute to heavy drinking among sailors, according to a new study.

When we get old, our eyesight and hearing start to diminish, muscles quit working, and our bodies generally deteriorate.

The Louisville-based insurer, which employs more than 1,200 people at its new operations in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills neighborhood and hundreds more at a distribution center in West Chester, said Mond...

Doctors' Group Says Hormone Treatments May Pose More Risks Than Benefits

The prognosis wasn't good for Bilbo. The middle-age pug suffered from a whole host of ailments, including itchy skin, weakness in his back legs, and a loss of appetite.

Researchers in the US found that the chemotherapy drug fluorouracil appeared to reduce the appearance of sun-damaged and aging skin as well as the number of potentially pre-cancerous skin patches.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Colonoscopy complication risks rise with age in the Medicare population, a population-based study revealed.

South African AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane recently died of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the age of 24, the AP/Washington Post reports (Nullis, AP/Washington Post, 6/14). According to the

Tireless efforts by a relatively small but dedicated group of tobacco-fighters finally paid off last week when both houses of Congress passed a bill that puts the tobacco industry under supervision of the Food and Drug Administration. This won't help the millions of addicted smokers whose habit destroyed their health, but it's not too late for current users and new generations of potential smokers. . . . The first step is to establish a research arm financed by mandatory contributions from the industry to adopt standards for content. Agency scientists should have little trouble identifying the most harmful ingredients, given the in-depth research that has already taken place. The agency should act quickly to remove them from use in cigarettes and should likewise refuse to approve any new tobacco products for distribution to consumers unless they have a benign effect. There may never be any such thing as a harmless cigarette, but there are ways to reduce the dangers of smoking. The F

CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Medical Association says there's no scientific proof to back up claims of anti-aging hormones....