Health & Medicine

Mar 22, 2013 05:13 PM EDT

Men And Women Need Gender-Specific Treatments For Disease, Study Finds

Researchers have revealed crucial differences between men and women with regard to how diseases affect the body and how they are to be treated.

Mar 22, 2013 03:52 PM EDT

Woman Loses Teeth, Develops Bone Disease By Drinking Excessive Amounts Of Tea (VIDEO)

After years of drinking an excessive amount of super-strong tea, a woman developed a rare bone disease and lost all her teeth.

Mar 22, 2013 01:07 PM EDT

Vasectomies Increase During March Madness, One Clinic Offers Free Pizza With The Procedure

Trying to court a couch-comfy March Madness audience, urologists in Illinois offer free pizza with vasectomy.

Mar 22, 2013 09:54 AM EDT

Brain Tumor Cells Killed By Anti-Nausea Drug

Brain tumor growth can be halted by a drug currently being used in patients recovering from the side effects of chemotherapy, a new study from Australia states.

Mar 22, 2013 08:14 AM EDT

'Evolutionary Glitch' behind Childhood Ear Infections: Researchers Say

Researchers from the U.K. have found a possible reason behind glue ear or Otitis media with effusion in children. Children affected by this condition have a sticky fluid behind the eardrum in the middle ear. According to them, a flaw in the formation of the middle ear during evolution in humans has made this part of the ear more prone to infection.

Mar 22, 2013 04:56 AM EDT

Energy Drinks Linked with Abnormal Heart Rhythm, High Blood Pressure

Drinking energy drinks may make your heart's rhythm go haywire and also increase your blood pressure, a new study says.

Mar 22, 2013 04:11 AM EDT

Too Much Salt in Diet Linked to 2.3 Million Deaths in 2010

In the year 2010, about 2.3 million people died of diseases that could be prevented or controlled by restricting salt in the diet, says a new study.

Mar 21, 2013 11:09 PM EDT

Genetically Modified Cold Sore Virus Shrinks Melanoma Tumors

A cancer drug based on a tumor-killing virus made tumors disappear or at least shrink by half for at least six months, and has for the first time succeeded in a late-stage clinical trial.

Mar 21, 2013 04:53 PM EDT

Lyme Disease Bacteria Has Odd Quirk Never Before Seen In Any Other Organism

Scientists discovered that pathogen causing Lyme disease can exist without iron by depending on manganese, a characteristic unknown in any other organism.