Consumer Reports recently studied pesticide residues on 48 types of produce from 14 countries in order to develop guidelines to aid the public in reducing exposure to potentially harmful chemicals.

More than half of parents and caregivers of youth baseball pitchers are striking out when it comes to understanding safe pitching practices, according to a study recently presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) annual meeting.

Every year, about 1 million Americans travel to other countries to do volunteer work, and while most are teens and young adults, a growing number of adults aged 50 and older are pitching in, too.

The recent measles outbreak has led to an increase in the number of Americans who favor routine vaccinations for children, a recent poll suggests.

Johns Hopkins cardiologists recently reported they have come up with a way to estimate a person’s risk of dying in a decade.

Almond joy Snacking on almonds seems to lessen the risk of heart disease and reduce belly and leg fat, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. In a 12-week study at Penn State University, 52 overweight, middle-aged adults who were basically healthy but had high cholesterol levels followed nearly identical cholesterol-lowering diets. The only difference in the diets was that some participants ate a daily snack of 1.5 ounces of almonds while others ate a banana muffin containing the same number of calories as the almonds. Those who ate the almonds experienced a decrease ...

A woman who is immune to bedbug bites has enabled scientists to figure out what attracts the insects to human skin, and as a result, bedbug traps should be available sometime this year.

A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) has found a rather simple way to improve older adults’ satisfaction with hearing aids.

Fourteen-year-old Katya Gehrin went to bed with back pain on April 15, 2014. When she awoke the next morning, the St. Charles County teen was paralyzed from her shoulders to her toes.

Water. We turn on the tap and out it pours – clean, safe and ready to use. But that’s not the case in Haiti – at least not for everyone.