A recent study concluded that exercise has a significant influence on the intensity of menopausal stress and other symptoms experienced by women.

Researchers from the Temple University in Philadelphia arrived at this conclusion after conducting an experiment that involved 380 African American and white women, and monitoring their physical activities and menopausal symptoms for eight years, starting in 1996 and 1997

Beginning January, Illinois will prohibit the sale of the herb salvia divinorum because of the plant's unique hallucinogenic properties. Illinois joins other states that have placed the herb on the Schedule I substance list, which requires the strictest levels of control.

The prohibition on salvia divinorum's sale is the result of a bill authored by state Sen. Dennis Reboletti. "We decided to move forward rather than waiting for someone to be killed because of it," Reboletti said

Christmas season spells less incidents of suicide around the world, according to a new study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States on Saturday.

The research team, headed by Dan Romer, the university's director of Annenberg Adolescent Communication Institute, further claimed that contrary to previous reports that suicide rates showed an upward trend during the "ber" months, the study revealed that it is lower by as much as 40 percent

A 45-year-old woman who was wrongly diagnosed with HIV and received treatments for almost nine years before she discovered she never had AIDS, was awarded $2.5 million in damages by a jury Wednesday. .

Audrey Serrano said in her lawsuit against her doctor who diagnosed her, the multiple powerful drugs she took started a chain of ailments, including depression, loss of weight, fatigue, loss of appetite and inflammation of the intestine

An Australian medical study has found that fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids may stop young people from developing schizophrenia, a psychotic condition characterized by hallucinations and delusions.

In an experiment conducted by researchers from the Orygen Research Centre in Melbourne, only three percent of 40 people aged 13 to 24 and previous sufferers of hallucinations and delusions developed schizophrenia one year after taking capsules of fish oil over a period of three months