Democrats in the US House of Representatives were preparing for a showdown over a critical vote Sunday on a sweeping overhaul of the health care system.

Ensuring that teenagers get a good night's sleep could make them less likely to use drugs, according to a study.

Forget crash diets and obsessive calorie counting. A new study shows that it takes only slight changes to your eating habits to improve your long term health.

Higher doses of cholesterol lowering drug Zocor, sold generically as simvastatin, may increase risk of a condition which can lead to fatal kidney failure, a drug watchdog has warned.

Poor sleep patterns are likely to drive adolescents at the centre of social networks to use drugs, thereby increasing their vulnerability, says a study.

Teenagers who get a good night’s sleep are less likely to use drugs, a new research suggests.

Cough medicine ingredient noscapine could be used as a prophylactic treatment for prostate cancer, according to a new study.

A cheap acne drug that's been used for decades effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating, claim Johns Hopkins researchers.

Exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos is associated with early childhood developmental delays, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Experts have raised concerns about the safety of babies in the way parents carry them in slings.