Nearly a third of American workers get too little sleep, federal health officials said Thursday. By sleeping fewer than six hours a night, these folks put themselves and their co-workers at risk for serious consequences, according to a study by …

With spring break behind us and summer just around the corner, now is the annual “swimsuit diet” time for many. If this makes you groan and want to reach for the sweatpants, you’re not alone. A new study has found …

Diagnosing depression may soon be as easy as diagnosing high cholesterol. A new study describes a blood test that that distinguished depression among teenagers. Developed by a scientist at Northwestern School of Medicine in Chicago, the new blood test aims …

(Reuters Health) – A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the U.S. The findings cannot prove that …

A recent study of hundreds of families with autism has found that spontaneous mutations that occur in a parent’s sperm or egg cells can increase a child’s risk for autism, and fathers are four times more likely than mothers to …