A 20-year study involving 400,000 participants challenges everything we thought we knew about daily multivitamins and their impact on life expectancy.

There are many different foods that are good sources of calcium,” says Katherine Zeratsky, R.D.N., a clinical dietitian at ...

While many people take supplements for brain health, the research supporting supplemental nutrients' effects on brain health ...

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Our medical tools and techniques are rapidly improving but our system for delivering health care is a source of widespread ...

Karen Plaut, executive vice president for research at Purdue University, has announced that she will retire June 30. A national search will be launched immediately to identify Plaut’s successor.

(THE CONVERSATION) The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and ...

A new tuberculosis vaccine that self-destructs to enhance safety has shown promising results in macaque monkeys, providing ...

Basic public health protections help augment our national security protections,” particularly when it comes to emerging ...

Documented palliative goals of care rarely occurred among adolescents and younger adults with cancer before the last 30 days ...

A new research project underway at Scripps Health will attempt to design and test a smart shoulder, one that could record and ...

The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance — primarily managed care — will improve the nation’s health and close the troubling ...