An Indevus Pharmaceuticals gel formulated to protect women from the virus that causes AIDS appeared to protect about a third of them from infection -- the first time a so-called microbicide has been shown to work, researchers told a conference in Montreal

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

The American Heart Association maintains you should eat less than 1 percent in trans fat a day, which is no more than 2 grams of trans fat if you are eating 2,000 calories a day; however, the American Heart Association actually prefers you consume zero

It is perhaps the single most social, brutal procedure surviving the 21st century that can be inflicted on a female. Internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of girls and women, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),

Deputy Minister of Health said the lack of access to medicines has contributed to millions of deaths and untold suffering in Africa. The burden falls particularly on the poor, women and children.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Medical Association threw its weight behind legislation to ban the use of artificial trans fats in restaurants and bakeries nationwide on Monday.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2008--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) proposes to revise existing regulations regarding the importation, interstate movement and environmental release

Haverhill debt counselling charity has revealed that people's diets are suffering as they turn to cheaper processed foods in their bid to cope with the credit crunch; people's eating habits have changed because of the current financial problems...

I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who bucked conventional wisdom to find a cause of cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday.