Healthy food can also be considered brain food, according to a new study in the Journal of School Health. The study found that children that eat healthy foods perform better in school than children who eat unhealthy foods.

On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to grocers to remove from their shelves all cantaloupes shipped from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a melon-processing company located on the Pacific coast in southern Honduras. Consumers who’ve recently purchased…

If you want to lower your blood pressure, then marriage seems to be the way according to a study by Brigham Young University professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad.

A report released this week by the Alzheimer’s Association estimates that 18% of the nation’s 79 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia at some point in their lives. The oldest baby boomers are turning…

According to the findings of a study presented today at the 48th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, hosted by the American Heart Association, many teenagers invest as much time watching television and viewing other screen-related programming each…

A consumer watchdog group, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), has recently uncovered small amounts of a petroleum-based ingredient, known to cause cancer in animals, in some cleaning and personal grooming products manufactured and distributed by some of the leading names…

The number of pediatric doctors who specialize in the treatment of childhood diabetes is steadily declining at a time when more and more children are being diagnosed with diabetes. The childhood obesity epidemic has been a major contributor to the…

A recent study suggests that adults who have two parents who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are more likely to develop the disease themselves and to do so at an earlier age than those without.

A study reported in the March issue of Psychological Science points to heredity as the most important factor in determining a person’s predisposition to happiness. Psychologists at the University of Edinburgh worked with specialists at the Queensland Institute in Austria…

Gorton’s Inc. has announced that the tablets found in Crispy Battered Fish Fillets turned out to be over-the-counter herbal supplements. The company pointed out that the incident in Pennsylvania is an isolated case.

A new do-it-yourself paternity kit administered at home can answer that question. The kit, which costs only $29.99 and can be administered at home, hit the market last November in California, Oregon, and Washington. The Identigene DNA Paternity Test Collection…

A new study published in the March issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention demonstrates that women who have a recurrence of breast cancer have almost twice as much estrogen in their blood than those without a recurrence despite treatment with…

The city of San Francisco’s Health Commission will cut $28.1 million in health care costs to help the city bridge a $251 million budget gap for the 2008-09 fiscal year. About half of those cuts that will take place April…

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, inattentive driving is responsible for at least a quarter of all crashes. The use of cell phones, including dialing, texting and talking, has been an ongoing safety concern. A study that will…