Health officials, on Tuesday declared that the four Vietnamese family members have tested negative for the bird flu tests. They were admitted in the hospital as they were suspected to have had bird flu, after eating sick chickens.

War veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD are at greater risk of heart attacks as they age, a groundbreaking study of military veterans of World War II and Korea suggests.

McDonald’s, the world’s fast food giant, are reviewing their procedures for handling food, after a Hepatitis A scare and complaints by the staff that the workers are not washing their hands as oft

The surveys prove that the adults with children are more overweight compared to adults without them. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine conducted surveys on 6600 adults in which it was found that people with children consume saturated fat equivalent to a pepperoni pizza every week.

Avian flu is believed to have stricken back after more than a year in southern Vietnam on Saturday. Four members of a family were admitted in the hospital with the symptoms of bird flu said a doctor.

Recent research has shown that adding Tykerb (lapatinib) to Xeloda (capecitabine) chemotherapy, or Xeloda monotherapy as it is usually referred to, increases the time taken for the disease to progress in women who have been diagnosed with HER2-positive, advanced-stage breast cancer.

Childhood obesity begins much sooner than previously thought, especially in low-income, urban families, a new study carried out by the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested.

Many previous studies have suggested that physical activities like walking, jogging, swimming, cycling, skipping, etc. are in many ways beneficial for the physical as well as mental well being of an individual.

It has been an achievement of sorts at Universal Parks & Resorts, part of Universal Studios in Hollywood, and the achievement is more of a dietary kind than a cinematic kind. The park has taken up cudgels against the use of trans fats in the junk food items on its menus.