Many college students come up with strategies to protect themselves from the consequences of drinking too much alcohol. But theese strategies end up with them drinking more alcohol than they planned or expected.
Menopause is one of the most significant events in a woman’s life as it signifies another chapter—a life without menstruation and therefore the inability to conceive a child by natural means.
The FDA has proposed that companies state the amount of added sugar in their products as a percentage of the recommended daily calorie intake. This information would be part of the Nutrition Facts label on food packaging.
The price for certain medications is being called outrageous and the pharmaceutical industry is under pressure. High prices for drugs are causing consternation on the state level, where they can bust Medicaid budgets.
The European Medicines Agency has recommended approving what will be the world's first malaria vaccine. The agency endorsed the vaccine's use outside of Europe, which is a regulatory process that helps speed new medicines to the markets where they are needed.
Your health insurance policy may not cover your treatment if you were involved in “illegal activity” and sometimes illegal activity is what the insurance company says that it is.
The epidemic in heroin use across the country is affecting both men and women, all age groups, and people at all income levels. The greatest increases are occurring in groups that had usually had lower rates of heroin use in the past, including women and those…
More data reveal the long-term deadly effects of chronic smoking on health, especially that of women. In a new study, it’s discovered that women who smoke for about 20 years have at least 3 times the chance of dying from breast cancer, once they have it.
A study has found that coffee drinkers appear to be half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as people who do not drink coffee. Habitual coffee drinkers were 54% less likely to develop diabetes when compared to those who did not drink coffee, even after accou…
From 2011 to 2013, 44% of girls and 47% of boys between the ages of 15 and 19 said they had sexual intercourse at least once, according to the survey. This is a decline of 14% among girls and 22% for boys over the past 25 years.
