Good news for all those people out there who are health conscious and also enjoy their drink from time to time. London based distiller Diageo will be soon coming out with the nutritional information on its Smirnoff vodka...

A Swedish Study claims that the men who are heavy drinkers are also the ones with low IQs. Study surmises that men with high IQ choose healthier lifestyles. The study conducted by ( researched the patterns of 49,321 Swed...

A sauna does more than build up a sweat - it can be a life saver, say researchers. Middle-aged men who take frequent saunas are around half as likely to die from heart conditions as those who do not, according to a new s...

The video that circulated widely showing a young child — five or six years old — who had been selling pens outside a McDonald's restaurant visiting the inside of the restaurant for the first time generated the kind of em...

MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion declaring that sex-selection abortion is illegal. They voted 181 to 1 for a motion brought forward by a cross-party alliance of MPs in an effort to end uncertainty over...

Exercise only focuses on the body. Turns out, exercise is the single most important factor which can boost and grow the brain cells. A fit mind after all truly lives in a fit body. ( It’s the single most proven way to ge...

might not keep you from catching a cold, but not getting an adequate amount of the vitamin can keep you from burning fat. A study from ( found that folks with low-blood concentrations of vitamin C, who walked on treadmil...

Older people blighted by pessimism and fear for the future are more likely to live longer, according to scientists. A study, into 40,000 adults across ten years, has found those with low expectations for a “satisfying fu...

Youth in the 12th grade age range (ages 16 to 18) who have dropped out of school prior to graduating are more likely than their counterparts to be current users of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and other illicit drugs,...

The debate over how to structure health insurance in the United States returns, periodically, to an analogy that sounds intuitive on the surface: why not make health insurance work like car insurance? Individuals bear re...

Sleep is not a passive state of rest. It is an active biological process during which the brain consolidates memories, clears metabolic waste, repairs cellular damage, regulates hormones, and processes emotional experien...

Professor Steven Rawlings, an eminent astrophysicist, suffered a fatal heart attack after being pinned to the ground in self defence by his oldest friend and fellow Oxford academic Dr Devinderjit Sivia. The 50-year-old m...

People can be fat yet fit, research suggests By Michelle Roberts People can be obese yet physically healthy and fit and at no greater risk of heart disease or cancer than normal weight people, say researchers. The key is...

An Indian-American couple has been charged by U.S. federal authorities for running a healthcare fraud scheme in which they claimed over $8 million through false medical bills. Usha Shah and Deepak Shah, both 63, of Michi...

Federal and state public health officials investigating an E. coli outbreak that had spread across six states in 2012 undertook the kind of epidemiological detective work that food safety investigations require: tracing...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

We know it has long been bad for your waistline. But fast food can also be bad for your mental health, according to a new study. Eating junk such as as hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza heightens your chance of developing de...

A notable shift occurred in Bollywood's public culture when several prominent stars began speaking openly about health challenges that had previously been kept private — not out of a desire for sympathy, but as part of a...

At some point in almost every fitness journey, the routine that once produced results stops working. The body adapts. The same miles on the same route, the same machines in the same order, the same weight class — they st...

Children living on farms have a lower risk of asthma than children who don't because they are surrounded by a greater variety of germs, according to two large-scale studies published Wednesday. The prevalence of asthma i...

While browsing the web recently, I got interested in the World Giving Index reportpublished by the Charities Aid Foundation, which provided information on charitable giving patterns across the world through a survey cond...

The conventional wisdom about quitting smoking had long held that the process was miserable — weeks of irritability, cravings, and the psychological weight of deprivation. This framing, while partly accurate about the tr...