Researchers at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that people who stop drinking may develop depression.

Findings from the study appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Scientists have long known that moderate drinking offered some health benefits, including protection against heart disease, certain types of stroke and some forms of cancer. But now they say that people that stop drinking, even moderate drinking, run the risk of developing depression and a reduced capacity of the brain to produce new neurons, a process called neurogenesis

Researchers have identified a new type of brain-wasting disease that resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a very rare and incurable degenerative brain disease that is ultimately fatal.

The U.S. National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, said in a news release Wednesday that the new type of fatal dementia has been discovered in 16 Americans since 2002, 10 of whom have already died of the condition

Diabetes and obesity can affect male fertility in a negative way, new research has found. The findings, presented Wednesday at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference here, could mean that men need to keep tabs on their weight when planning a family.

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen found that men of average weight have healthier sperm in higher volumes than those outside the normal range. The research follows reports made by doctors earlier this week that male fertility begins to decline when men reach their mid-30s

Jalapeno peppers and not tomatoes caused some cases of salmonella in the U.S., investigators said Wednesday, adding that the illness toll has now crossed the 1,000 mark.

In what has become the largest food-borne disease outbreak in the past decade, 1,017 people from 41 states, the District of Columbia and Canada have become sick from the rare salmonella strain dubbed Saintpaul since mid-April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC said on its Web site

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will seek to include its most serious warning, black box warning on 11 anti-seizure drugs cautioning about the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

The announcement comes days ahead of an FDA advisory panel meeting to discuss concerns about the drugs. According to documents posted on the agency's Web site Monday, a committee of outside medical experts will discuss suicidal behavior associated with epilepsy drugs at an FDA-sponsored meeting on Thursday