A Food and Drug Administration review concludes that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk than regular cigarettes but does not make a recommendation on whether to limit or ban...

The first time Miriam Lipton had breast cancer, her thick hair fell out two weeks after starting chemotherapy. The second time breast cancer struck, Lipton gave her scalp a deep chill and kept much of...

Falling televisions sent nearly 200,000 U.S. children to the emergency room over 20 years, and the injury rate has climbed substantially for these sometimes deadly accidents, a study...

Don't miss Combating Cancer PART 2, the second publication in The Malta Independent on Sunday Health Report Series out this Sunday 28 July.  Following the success of the first health report...

For years, cookbook writer Sally Sampson had wanted to write for children. No one was interested.   But by 2010, the time was right. Alarm over rising rates of childhood obesity was reaching...

The European Commission’s ‘Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable’ campaign has teamed up with National Health Promotion Unit for a series of activities this year, to provide information about...

New research boosts the "use it or lose it" theory about brainpower and staying mentally sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other...

If you're lucky enough to live into your 90s, how well will your brain hold up? You may have an edge over people who got there ahead of you, a new study hints.   Researchers found that...

New research boosts the "use it or lose it" theory about brainpower and staying mentally sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other...

In a third-floor room of a London hospital with orange and white walls draped with Tibetan prayer flags, roughly a dozen people gathered recently to perform vocal exercises and sing songs, including...