Wearing a fitness tracker may help you keep tabs on how many steps you take, but the devices themselves - even with the lure of a cash reward - probably won't improve your health, according to the...

Local nurses are currently in Boston receiving specialized training at the Newton Wellesley Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Centre. These include the Chief Nursing Managers from both Karin Grech...

Health officials are warning that small outbreaks of infections spread by contaminated operating room machinery during open-heart surgery could be more widespread than first thought. The Centers...

A 62-year-old Spanish woman has given birth to a healthy girl and encourages women in their later years to imitate her if they want to. Lina Alvarez left the Lucus Augusti Hospital in the...

Coeliac UK, the world's largest coeliac NGO with over 60,000 members have announced their partnership with local PR firm Narrative Structures to continue to raise awareness on coeliac...

The morning after pill will not require a doctor’s prescription and will be available over the counter, the Medicines Authority says. Earlier this month, a joint parliamentary committee had...

It may sound bizarre, but researchers are planning just such a study - this winter, when mosquitoes aren't biting - to help speed development of much-needed Zika vaccines. The quest for a vaccine...

New research suggests there may be a limit to our life span - one that's hard to extend without some sort of breakthrough that fixes all age-related problems. The record for the world's oldest...

When the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She asked if she could have...

Five years ago there were a couple dozen stand-alone emergency centers in Texas, and now there are more than 200. Colorado, Ohio and other states also have seen steady growth. As these centers...