Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that’s enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

Are you washing your hands well enough to kill H1N1 germs? You might be surprised.

Doctor Rachel Kuperman, a Pediatric Neurologist at Oakland Children’s Hospital says epileptic seizures -especially in children - can be triggered by video games. In particular games with flashing lights, especially red and blue and repeated patterns like in the popular game guitar hero.

Online medical products may be cheap but they can come at a very high cost.

Three small test kits… One big hope for preventing cancer.

To all the spinners and runners and stair climbers out there—there’s a new message. Spending more time at the gym may not help as much as this.

The USDA and the organic certification organization, CCOF, have specific standards for foods with an organic label. A product that claims to be 100% organic must have all organic ingredients, be processed organically and be free of non-organic agricultural ingredients. The label, Organic, means that at least 95 percent of the ingredients in the product are organic. Products with the label, Made with Organic Ingredients, contain at least 70 percent of organic ingredients.

A loud door bell, a ringing alarm clock, an irritating car horn… even a scary movie or a difficult test. The stuff of life for most of us, but the cause of death for others.

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.