Eating healthy over the holidays is possible.

All it takes is a little planning to make sure that the holidays don't mean loading a plate with calorie-dense foods with little nutritional value, says registered dietician Netty Levine, RD, CDE, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A French cardiologist has claimed that he is no longer an alcoholic because an anti-muscle spasm pill that he had been taking for many years caused him to lose desire to drink liquor.

The claim by Dr. Olivier Ameisen, 55, is contained in his book "Le Dernier Verre" ("The Last Glass") set for release in the U.S. next year under the title "The End of My Addiction

A new University of Toronto study has found that gay men who don't feel attractive are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors, which might explain why gay and bisexual men in Massachusetts continue to be hard hit by AIDs.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health released figures Sunday revealing that the state has had less success in battling AIDs among gay and bisexual men than it has in combating the disease among drug users and heterosexual men and women

A University College London study indicated that light drinking is not necessarily bad for pregnant women. The offspring of women who drank lightly while on the family way turned out to have better test scores and lesser behavioral problems.

The study defined light drinking as limited to up to two drinks a week. It covered 12,500 three-year olds who were children of women who drank lightly or abstained while pregnant

A study by Wellesley College researchers said intake of alcohol may result in a decrease to an individual's total brain volume.

According to the October issue of the Archives of Neurology, brain mass decreases with age at a rate of almost two percent every ten years. However, as brain volume decreases, white matter lesions increase. A decreasing brain volume and increasing white matter lesions also happen in cases of dementia and problems with thinking, learning and memory