Heftier paychecks and all-expense-paid travels aren't the only advantages your boss has over you. A recent study published in the Australian Medical Journal revealed that managers are less likely to contract cancer than their rank and file counterparts are.

Deborah Schofield of Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health was the lead researcher of the study. She noted that managers and administrators were significantly less likely to suffer neoplasms, or cancerous tumors, than all other level of workers

A major government study has concluded that excessively low blood sugar levels in high-risk diabetes patients appears to increase the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.

Prompted by the study, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) immediately halted a massive trial of diabetes and heart disease citing a large number of deaths among patients who pushed their blood sugar level really low

Blood pressure increase and reduction in size of the human heart has been observed in both genders when a person reaches 50. Researchers from St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center in New York revealed the landmark finding, which placed a definite age marker for major changes in the human heart.

While the cardiovascular phenomenon occurs in both men and women, there are still major differences between blood pressure levels and heart sizes between males and females, said Dr. Nathaniel Reichek, director of Research and Education at St. Francis and lead researcher for the study

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers and seafood processors against consumption of fish after several cases of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) were reported in Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Mo..

The toxic fish were harvested in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, near the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, which is located in federal waters south of the Texas-Louisiana coastline

Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have found the first direct evidence that beer belly is linked to a higher risk of heart attacks.

The new study in mice has found that inflammation around the cells of visceral fat deposits (or belly fat) is linked to clogged and hardened arteries