HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Despite the warnings that being overweight will kill you, a new Australian study finds that overweight adults over the age of 70 are less likely to die over a 10-year period than their normal-weight peers.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 12 percent of children and adolescents in the United States use complementary or alternative medicines, known as CAM, according to Harvard Medical School researchers.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease that causes hyperthyroidism, the medical term for an overactive thyroid gland.
Reuters - Swiss biotechnology group Basilea said it would resume recruitment of patients into a late-stage trial of an antifungal treatment in the first half of 2010 after a U.S. safety panel recommended the study's continuation.
Scientists and health professionals have been fighting a seemingly endless battle with malaria for decades, but a recent discovery could finally lead to new treatments for the deadly disease.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- The appendix is a small organ located near the large intestine, and it can become inflamed (appendicitis), painful and require surgical removal.
