Every year, 4 million people end up in the emergency room or a doctor’s office because they got the wrong medicine or the wrong dose. The Institute of Medicine says one-and-a-half million of these mistakes are preventable.

A free website allows you to load a picture of your current self and they will show what you would look like at your goal weight.

Whether it’s morbid curiosity or a determination to change the future, the death clock site is one of the most popular internet destinations these days.

If we rely on technology for documenting, sorting and storing information—creating digital diaries, or “lifestreaming”—what will become of our minds?

Video games geared to get your booty and whatever else moving.

Doctors now know that sudden emotional stress can cause severe, but reversible, heart muscle weakness ... which mimics a classic heart attack. they call it: broken heart syndrome.

Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. West Virginians’ lack of sleep was about double the national rate, perhaps a side effect of health problems such as obesity, experts said.

In the era of reality TV, YouTube, and social media “friends” and “followers,“ it seems that everyone wants to be a star. People will perform outrageous acts on camera and revel in the attention of strangers. But what drives this need for attention?

Many migraine medications take hours to work and cause negative side effects. But now an old migraine drug, that’s been around for 60 years has been reformulated and doctors say the headaches stayed away without significant side effects.

Studies show tanning releases endorphins, an opiate-like substance produced naturally in the body that makes you feel good—so good, some people get addicted.

There’s a reason for each and every sniffle, sneeze, ache, and pain. Learn why your body behaves the way it does, and discover the quickest ways to feel better.

A troubling trend is emerging in breast cancer, medical experts say: Younger women are getting a disease that usually strikes around menopause. Meet two of those young women—actually, girls.

Eat six of the special cookies throughout the day when your hungry, and in the evening you have a sensible dinner. Lynda Sells says the cookie diet worked for her.

The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend patients’ lives, say congressional investigators.

At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don’t get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.