The number of teens indulging in illegal drugs and alcohol has reduced sharply in the present year, but the use of legal drugs like pain killers, mood stimulants, and even cough syrups has accelerated.

Scientists had long been assuming that vitamin D has the potentiality to lower the chance of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), but they had no adequate evidence to turn their assumption into reality

Contrary to popular medical beliefs that diabetes occurs only due to dysfunctional immune system, a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists claimed Friday that Nerve cells in the pancreas also play a key role in developing the disease.

Infants sleeping unattended in standard car safety seats are at risk of developing life-threatening breathing problems, especially if they were born prematurely, a new study, published in this week's

Scientists warned on Thursday that the Malaria virus is fueling the spread of HIV in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa and thousands of people who have been suffering from Malaria already, have been in

A prolonged suggested theory that sitting straight at 90-degree angle is the perfect sitting posture is contradicted by a new study which indicated that it is not the right position for office workers

People who have a bad reaction time and poor memory are more prone to heart diseases, a new study suggests.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced on Monday that the U.S. health authorities are purchasing H5N1 flu vaccine worth $200 million in order to stockpile it to be used at the onset of an influenza pand