After a difficult pregnancy, weeks of bed rest and an emergency cesarean section, Liz Logelin got only a quick peek at her daughter before the newborn, healthy but premature, was whisked away to the neonatal …

During the same four year period while NHTSA was collecting crash data on Toyota’s lemons, the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database was gathering casualty data following vaccinations with …

Amy Paulin, now a New York State assemblywoman pushing for more independence for midwives, was 27 when she became pregnant with her first child and started doctor-shopping in New York City.

Odds are most supermarket strawberries come from California — that’s where 90 percent of the berries are produced. And if the strawberries are not organic, they were likely grown in fumigated soil, which is creating …

The state-sponsored “child-napping” of a Swedish boy because his parents were homeschooling him is being escalated to the European Court of Human Rights, which is being asked to hear the case of Domenic Johansson. …

All of the Health Freedom Alliance members and associates are fanatical proponents of natural unadulterated supplements. But what happens when our supplementation actually works against us? What if our fatty acids, sodium, hormones, calcium, essential vitamins …

It’s a little hard to swallow: more than 85 percent of kids’ drinks contain so much lead they may exceed federal limits for young children. Both organic and conventional juices were among the lead-tainted products, …

The use of Omega-3 supplements is effective among patients with major depression who do not have anxiety disorders, according to a study directed by Dr. Francois Lesperance of the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier …

The first “test tube baby” was born in 1978. With advances in reproductive science, an estimated one percent of all American babies are now born each year through in vitro fertilization (IVF). But IVF and …

Evidence is brewing that coffee can prevent cancer.
The latest study shows that java junkies are significantly less likely to develop head and neck cancer – and the more coffee consumed, the lower the risk. …

FEDERAL regulators decided last year that a national television commercial promoting a drug called Prevacid was misleading viewers by failing to make clear that the medicine was for serious heartburn problems and not for occasional …

A potential cancer drug developed from an Australian rainforest plant is set to progress to human trials after fighting off inoperable tumours in pets, the company behind it said Monday.
Queensland firm QBiotics Ltd said its …

Canada the last four years totaled sixteen “flu-associated” fatalities for their paediatric age category, defined as everybody under 18, and this included all H1N1 and seasonal cases. Three-quarters of these deaths had severe and …

Researchers in a wide variety of fields know that how you organize your environment — from where you stand in fitness class to the place you choose to store your meds — has a surprising …

Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop AO, MD, MMed, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA announced that after considering the results to date of a comprehensive study into the safety of seasonal flu vaccine for young children, …

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Oakhurst Dairy Inc. is being sued by Monsanto Co., which alleges that Oakhurst’s marketing campaign that touts its milk as being free of artificial growth hormones is misleading. The suit, filed …

University Hospitals Case Medical Center cardiologists have uncovered new research showing an increased risk of cancer with a group of blood pressure medications known as angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs).

Sexsomnia was reported by almost eight percent of patients at a sleep disorders center and was more common in men than women, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday, June 7, 2010, …

If you’re eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67 pesticides with it, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.
The group, a nonprofit focused on public health, scoured nearly 100,000 produce …

Washington, D.C. –North Carolinians could be exposed to much higher concentrations of a notorious Teflon chemical than the rest of the country under a proposed state regulation that would allow unsafe levels of the contaminant …

San Francisco – A new analysis reveals that top-selling fragrance products—from Britney Spears’ Curious and Hannah Montana Secret Celebrity to Calvin Klein Eternity and Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce —contain a dozen or more secret chemicals …

Five years ago Molly and Zachery Gray were in the midst of a dark, lonely spiral. It began with Molly’s first miscarriage.
“It was a really emotional process of being so joyful and so happy and …

Supermarket food is at risk of being contaminated by a ‘highly toxic’ chemical found in the glue of packaging labels.
The chemical, which is in the same class of toxicity as mercury, asbestos and hydrochloric acid, …

We twist it, glide it, paint it on, and suddenly we feel attractive, composed, sexy and ready for the world.
Drenched in shades of sangria, dahlia, ruby, cherry and garnet, our lipstick-stained mouths exude health.
But looks …

If milk does the heart good, it might do the heart better if it comes from dairy cows grazed on grass instead of on feedlots, according to a new study.
Earlier experiments have shown that cows …