New Cancer Breakthroughs Offer Significant Promise

Recent scientific advancement in the fight against cancer is nothing less than breathtaking; it seems that cracking the human genome (and the...

Stress and Obesity Link Increases Chronic Disease

Nearly everyone understands that too much stress in the mind can contribute to, or even be the cause of, poor health outcomes. Yet how much stress...

How Hazardous Is Your Hair Dye?

With the recent emphasis on avoiding any and all carcinogens, you might wonder why some people, especially women, dye their hair so frequently with...

New Method Helps Diagnose Sports-Related Brain Damage

Repeated brain injuries in athletes due to heavy contact during both professional and amateur play has physicians concerned about cumulative brain...

Antibiotics Destroy Gut Health

In his new book, Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser, director of the Microbiome Project and chair of medicine at New York University, makes a...