Everything you thought you knew about kids and peanuts is wrong

The cancer death rate in the United States has dropped 25 percent from a peak in 1991, mainly due to a steady decline in smoking and advances in early detection and treatment of tumors, new research released Thursday shows.

A child takes a facial recognition test in which he is asked to match the face on the top to one of the faces on the bottom. /Jesse Gomez and Kalanit Grill-Spector at the Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab/Science.

The trouble with words, it has been said, is you never know whose mouth they have been in. This is especially true in health care, and particularly important as Obamacare is repealed and most likely replaced.

The doctors’ advice hasn’t changed much, but it’s still so unsatisfying: You should not use cotton swabs to clean your ears.

A California cashier’s simple good deed for a special needs boy is tugging at heart strings across the nation. Fox 11 reported that a Temecula woman working at a WinCo let Andy Robinson, who has cerebral palsy, scan items behind the cash register on Dec.

Amid the contention about diets and detoxes, sugar and fats, there is at least general agreement that a Mediterranean diet – fruit, vegetables, olive oil, grains, fish – is a good thing.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is cutting its staff by about 1000 people, including 800 to 900 layoffs, and the rest via retirement and other forms of attrition, center officials announced today.

Jionnia Conforti has sued St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., after he said it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy.

The marijuana industry is at a crossroads. Voters have approved recreational marijuana measures in eight states plus the District of Columbia.

High levels of the flu are now showing up in three of the five New Jersey regions monitored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A cancer startup that wants to build a blood test to screen for cancer is seeking to raise at least $1 billion. Grail was created in January 2016 by gene-sequencing giant Illumina, funded by a group of Silicon Valley investors including Jeff Bezos …

After having struggled with her weight throughout her 20s, Ayala maxed out at 262 pounds while pregnant with her daughter. After giving birth, Ayala battled postpartum depression, and things took another downward turn during the holiday season.

A north-side fast food restaurant will close for at least two weeks as part of an overhaul to the building’s design and layout, with plans to reopen with a look that’s “better than ever.

19 people were hospitalized with flu in Cuyahoga County last week. That’s a significant increase from previous weeks, and a sign to local health officials that the flu season is likely to ramp up considerably over the next two weeks.

If you’re looking for a diet plan that suits your lifestyle, a new list of rankings from U.S. News & World Report has you covered.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – Rutgers University has instituted a new drug testing policy that covers all teams that reduces penalties for marijuana use while varying treatment and punishment for drugs.

FILE PHOTO – The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as “Obamacare”, outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, …

New research found a way to stop malaria from attacking the liver, which is the first stage of the process the infection follows once installed into the body.