People who drink diet soft drinks every day may be putting themselves at an increased risk of heart disease, a new study shows.

In the US, there are nearly three million youth soccer players, and half of them are female. New research has found that despite reporting appropriate body perception and attitudes toward eating, elite youth soccer athletes face an increased risk for delayed or irregular menstruation.

Children who are spanked or slapped can develop higher levels of aggression.

Zinc has long been known to play a vital part in human health. However, the mechanisms for delivering zinc into cells are not well understood. New research has identified one switch which allows zinc to flow. This has implications for a number of diseases, including aggressive types of breast cancer.

Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study.

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness. The discovery may lead doctors and researchers to change the way Alzheimer’s disease is classified.

People with severe sleep apnea may have an increased risk of silent strokes and small lesions in the brain, according to a small study.

Common infections in children pose a high risk of ischemic stroke, according to new research. In a review of 2.5 million children, the researchers identified 126 childhood ischemic stroke cases and then randomly selected 378 age-matched controls from the remaining children without stroke. They discovered that 29 percent of those ...

Severe, rapid memory loss may be linked to -- and could predict -- a future deadly stroke, according to new research.

Using a liquid laser, University of Michigan researchers have developed a better way to detect the slight genetic mutations that might predispose a person to a particular type of cancer or other diseases.

New research links precipitous declines in formerly common mammals in Everglades National Park to the presence of invasive Burmese pythons.

Banned organochlorine pesticides such as DDT could be causing chronic illnesses