Americans love cosmetic surgery. Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like Botox – about one for every 20 Americans....

Two popular stop-smoking drugs are as safe for the heart as nicotine patches and dummy pills, according to research requested by U.S. and European regulators. The results come from an extension...

Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer's disease — basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of...

A big financial loss may shorten your life, a new study suggests. Middle-aged Americans who experienced a sudden, large economic blow were more likely to die during the following years than those...

There may be a critical window for overweight kids to get to a healthy level. Those who shed their extra pounds by age 13 had the same risk of developing diabetes in adulthood as others who had never...

The new MINI offers instant appeal, but it is also excellently equipped to provide long-term fascination, too. As far as readers of the automobile magazine "Auto Bild Klassik" are concerned, the...

At the recent Paris Motor Show, Fiat 500 made headlines once more, as befits an authentic Italian style icon, this time by presenting the "500 Couture", the next frontier of exclusive customization of...

There are standard jokes about older people, usually involving lost teeth and dentures. The cruel thing is that most people laugh out loud at these jokes, but in reality, losing one's teeth is...

It all started when Maria Caruana de Brincat was still at university. She felt several different symptoms, variously diagnosed as colds, vertigo, tinnitus (a constant ringing in the ears), and...