While frustrated parents may feel driven to violently shake their video game-playing grown children who still live at home, it can have serious medical consequences.

Actor Ben Stiller urges parents with adult kids still living at home to think twice before shaking their manchildren in frustration.

TAMPA, FL—The American Association of Cosmetic and Plastic Surgeons announced Tuesday the approval of a groundbreaking new technique that will allow an otherwise normal ...

This blog entry is reprinted with permission from the Department of Health and Human Services. Studies show an individual with a BMI of more than ...

Having a healthy lifestyle isn't just about staying out of the sun (or out of a tanning bed). Here are some simple tips to ...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC—A controversial report released Monday by the tobacco advocacy group Smoking Now blasted the antismoking group Truth.org for never even once taking ...

Since 1995, the number of strokes among Americans age 15 to 34 has risen 51 percent for men and 17 percent for women.

WASHINGTON—As part of an ongoing campaign to promote physical fitness and well- being, the Department of Health and Human Services is urging all Americans ...

In a study from Institute for Safe Medication Practices, the smoking-cessation medication varenicline (sold as Chantix in the United States) topped a list of the ...

In a recent study, people who spent more than four leisure-time hours a day sitting in front of a TV or computer screen showed a ...

In an effort to prevent food-borne illnesses, the Senate has passed new legislation—the most comprehensive of its kind in 70 years—that would give ...

Medical professionals are currently deciding whether using the HPV vaccine to decrease the risk of certain cancers in boys is worth the cost of the ...

To underscore the dangers of smoking, the FDA has proposed requiring packs of cigarettes to carry images of diseased lungs or corpses.

A study by the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse suggests that toning shoes—special exercise shoes with rounded bottoms—provide no benefit over regular shoes.

The city of San Francisco banned the McDonald's Happy Meal because it was not living up to the city's basic nutritional standards.

A new scam preys on the elderly by informing them they have died and instructing them to reroute their social security checks to the "Department ...