Is the made-from-sugar sugar substitute sucralose as naturally good as Heidi Montag's ... you name it: front? back? nose? left arm?

Up to now, research on sucralose has been sometimes positive, sometimes not; a few, but not all, studies do ...

What do Amy Grant, Golda Meir and Richard Nixon have in common? They've all had shingles: nerve inflammation caused by the reawakened chickenpox virus. (Once you've had chickenpox, the virus lurks dormant in your body.) Shingles starts with a ...

Harry Potter, Diego and Thomas the Train are not characters you'd think could make kids sick, but thousands of such branded toys have been banned for violating U.S. lead standards. And that's just the tip of the leadberg.

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The patients on the TV show "Scrubs" might refuse treatment for reasons that are philosophical (the right to die without being poked at) or wacky (not by a male nurse), but in the real world, people often refuse to take medications for reasons ...

You don't have to be a child trapped in an adult's body, like Tom Hanks in "Big," to think young. You can cultivate your memory, quick recall and mental sharpness even if you can't fit all your candles on a birthday cake. For sustainable brain ...

"The Grinch Who Stole Popcorn" could be the title of this iconic American snack's biography. The once-noble munchable's reputation has been badly damaged. First, we find out that a bag of popcorn and a soda at the movies delivers more than 1,600 ...