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 Pennsylvania mother has turned adversity into triumph… She’s made a difficult situation with her children’s health, into a new career opportunity.

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

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.

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.

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.

Eating healthy is always a good idea, but during cold and flu season it’s especially important.

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.

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.

New research has found that adults who are childhood cancer survivors are less likely to marry compared with their siblings and the general population. The side effects of treatment along with other factors play a role.

Mastectomy or lumpectomy? Breast reconstruction or not? What type of chemo? There are lots of questions when faced with a breast cancer diagnosis, and some advocates fear women aren’t being given all the options.

Botox and filler-filled faces are smiling ear-to-ear hearing the news. It’s a lunch hour fix that can finally be quick and pain free.

Post-traumatic stress disorder may be a condition of the mind, but research has implicated it in the ills of the body. Now, a new study suggests it may be associated with death after surgery.