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Chewing gum fans won one and lost one this week: A new study found that chewing gum after colon surgery could help shorten your hospital stay. On the other hand, chewing gum failed to help dieters eat less in another study.
Movie star Greta Garbo was famous for saying, "I want to be let alone," but new research suggests that's a rotten philosophy to follow if you want to live longer.
We are in the midst of a kale craze.
When it comes to using vaginal products, a new study has a message for you, ladies: Stop inserting petroleum jelly and baby oil down there. It puts you at risk for vaginal infections and makes you more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases.
Less than a week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to get new Alzheimer's drugs to market more quickly, comes two alarming reports showing dramatic increases in the number of deaths from the degenerative brain disease.
Saying there's "a desperate need" for new Alzheimer's treatments, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans to ease the approval rules for experimental drugs in the hopes of slowing or preventing the devastating brain disease in its early stages.
CHICAGO - The good news: We're living longer than ever. The bad news: We're living longer than ever.
Older women who took aspirin at least twice a week had a lower risk of developing melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, a new study finds.
A sleep-starved nation is begging: Enough with daylight saving time.
Actress Valerie Harper, who's been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has a rare type that often spreads from another form of cancer, such as breast, melanoma or, in Harper's case, lung cancer - which she battled in 2009.