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Schoolchildren may have an easier time learning if exercise is part of their math and spelling lessons, a new study suggests. Dutch researchers found that ...

In a finding that demonstrates how crucial it is to pay attention when behind the wheel, researchers report that video taken inside cars showed drivers ...

It is predicted that by 2030 a whopping 42 percent of Americans will be obese – a nearly 20 percent increase from just six years ...

Ten years of vaccinating against human papillomavirus (HPV) has cut infections from this cancer-causing virus by 64 percent among teen girls, U.S. health officials report. ...

There are a number of things parents can do to help their children enjoy a lifetime with healthy teeth and gums, a dental expert says. ...

The death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has complicated the fate of many major cases before the Supreme Court this term. But few issues face ...

As superbug outbreaks raised alarm across the country last year, a prominent doctor at a Philadelphia cancer center wrote in a leading medical journal about ...

Wrestlers are much more likely to suffer skin infections than other U.S. high school athletes, new research shows. The study authors examined five years of ...

For women with vaginal prolapse, mesh repair is associated with mixed outcomes, according to a review published online Feb. 9 in The Cochrane Library. Christopher Maher, ...

A handful of federal lawsuits against states that have denied highly effective but costly hepatitis C drugs to Medicaid patients and prisoners could cost states ...