Got kidney stones? Try riding a roller coaster to dislodge them
Just ask any one of the 300,000 Americans who, in any given year, develop kidney stones: What if the excruciating pain of passing one of those little devils could be...
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Men with anxiety are more vulnerable to cancer, study says
Men over 40 who are plagued with the omnipresent of generalized anxiety disorder are more than twice as likely to die of cancer than are men who do not have...
Scientists offer first direct proof that Zika virus in Brazil causes birth defects
Until now, most Zika research has chronicled damage to newborns who were inadvertently, and haphazardly, exposed to the virus. Now scientists have taken a different tack: They have deliberately infected...
Could mammograms detect clogged arteries as well as breast cancer? Yes, says new research
A woman's routine mammogram is a bulwark against dying of breast cancer, which strikes 1 in 8 women over a lifetime. But new research suggests that, with little extra cost...
Eggs and coffee get the all-clear in new dietary guidelines
In the first slate of nutritional recommendations it has issued since 2011, the federal government on Thursday gave Americans the go-ahead to eat eggs and others foods rich in cholesterol,...
Cancer: More than just bad luck?
New research has found that environmental exposures, lifestyle choices and other factors that could be changed or avoided account for between 70 percent and 90 percent of the gene mutations...
A swallowed pill appears to deliver weight loss without gastric surgery
A gastric balloon that's swallowed like a pill and then sits in the stomach filled with fluid helped patients lose more than a third of their excess weight over a...
Sex after heart attack: Enjoy without anxiety (but don’t count it as exercise)
For heart attack survivors, there's good news and bad news: Sexual activity, including masturbation, does not seem to touch off heart attacks in patients with established cardiovascular disease, and need...
We’ve been dranking…for a really long time
Happy hour started way earlier than we thought. Roughly 10 million years ago -- long before humans began to store food harvested by agriculture, and long, long before they intentionally...
Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says
Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn't want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone...