Ladies may feel and look great in high-heeled shoes, but their feet may not feel quite so happy. Many women forgo comfort for that little extra sexy appeal of high-heeled shoes and, even if you find heals more comfortable than flats, they are rarely the best option for your feet.

Most Americans don’t stop to find out if their favorite pizza or that yummy chocolate chip cookie contains a type of protein called gluten, but for someone with celiac disease (CD), it is a big concern. When a person who has CD eats foods containing gluten, their immune system responds by attacking the small [...]

Although side effects of commonly used medications are often mild and temporary, many can be harmful to children. Over the period of a decade, medication side effects alone sent over half a million American children to outpatient clinics and emergency rooms annually.

It’s that time again, school days are here and that means the cold and flu season will be following soon after. We already know how to take care of our school-aged children with oscillococcinum, the natural remedy against the flu as well as precautions against the H1N1 virus, but as a prevention tactics maybe [...]

Obesity may have been the cause of over 124,000 cases of cancer diagnosed in Europe last year alone. In addition, obesity could become the leading preventable cause of cancer in women in Western countries within a decade.
The number of estimated cases was based on information from a number of sources, including the World Health [...]

Well, it is just about that time of year again: flu season. No one is really ever ready for it, but it is better to be prepared early than to catch the flu and regret it later. The flu is a type of contagious respiratory illness that is caused by influenza viruses. Most of [...]

All expectant mothers look forward to the birth of a healthy newborn and prenatal care is an important step toward that goal, especially to monitor fetal growth when a baby seems too small or too large. Regular examinations during pregnancy that show a large baby can also help identify a mother who may have [...]

LONDON, England — A new drug for melanoma has been shown to rapidly shrink malignant tumors in an early trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York.
Among 27 patients whom the experimental new drug was tested on, “19 showed a 30 percent or greater reduction in tumor size,” Dr. Paul Chapman, the lead researcher told [...]

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials banned the sale of flavored cigarettes on Tuesday in the first major crackdown since the Food and Drug Administration

Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States, diagnosed in more than 130,000 new patients each year. For most people, the life-time risk for developing colon cancer is about six percent, but the risk is more pronounced for those with hereditary colon cancer syndromes. Patients who have inherited one [...]