Breast cancer isn’t just a woman’s disease. Men also have breast tissue that can undergo cancerous changes. While women are about 100 times more likely to get breast cancer, any man can develop breast cancer. Male breast cancer is most common between the ages of 60 and 70.

An experimental vaccine for cocaine addicts can help some users kick the habit, according to a new study.  Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have tested a vaccine that makes people produce antibodies to cocaine. The theory is that high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies can inactivate cocaine before it enters the brain, preventing users from getting high.

From motorcycles to lawnmowers, life is full of noise, but new research shows that it presents a bigger danger for some people than others.

Companies are pushing pink this October to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research, but how much of what you spend is really going to fight the deadly disease?

Gone are the days of pom-poms and spirit fingers on the sidelines of sporting events. Cheerleading these days is hard core! In fact, the sport of cheerleading could arguably be more intense than many of the other high impact sports. Last year alone, 16,000 cheerleaders were injured seriously in accidents involving dramatic stunts and tumbles.

Some children and teens are more likely than their peers to become addicted to the Internet, and a new study suggests it’s more likely to happen if kids are depressed, hostile, or have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or social phobia.

Walking is a wonder exercise: it can help control weight, reduce the risk of diabetes, certain cancers, and heart disease, and relieve stress. Best of all, walking is free. Here’s how to make every step count, no matter how often you hit the pavement.

Parents are often shown their child’s growth chart—a graph that plots where a child falls in relation to peers in terms of height and weight—but it turns out, few of them know how to interpret the information.

Flu season has barely started, but swine flu cases have already begun to surge. Experts say vaccines won’t be ready for weeks but people should start preparing now.

Before you flip open that tub of Ben and Jerry’s, be aware that ice cream really can control your brain and say “eat me.“ A U.S. study by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods such ice cream and burgers heads to the brain.

Surviving cancer was a life-changing experience for these top cancer experts, even though they’d spent their careers helping patients fight the illness — but it wasn’t until they were the patients that they learned a lot about what it really takes to keep yourself healthy.

According to research from Imperial College London, the death rate among patients admitted to English hospitals on the first Wednesday in August — the day, traditionally, that newly graduated doctors take up their posts — was, on average, 6% higher than for those admitted the last Wednesday in July.

It might now be Fall but those sunburns you received from the summer and even those sunburns from years ago might have a impact on your health later in life.

Researchers at the University of Washington are working to see if a talking pill bottle will make it easier and safer for people to take their medicine. The researchers didn’t invent the talking pill bottle, but they are the first to explore how willing we are to listen to instructions from pharmacists and doctors.

20 Marines, or sons of Marines were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer and they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades.