The World Health Organization announces Wednesday that heart disease, diabetes and other chronic ailments will kill almost 400 million people over the next 10 years. However, it adds many of those deaths can be prevented by better lifestyles and inexpensive medication

Local representatives and senators were asked for more research funding to prevent pregnancy complications at the Women in Government's 7th annual regional conference, on September, 28.

The number of preterm birth and low birth-weight infants are the most pressing obstetrical issues today, reports Michael Paidas, M.D., associate professor and director of The Program for Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Women's Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine

Male Breast cancer is on the rise, and awareness about the disease needs to occur. Astounded and shocked is how men described feeling when learning they had breast cancer, a disease they didn't even know men could suffer from.

How men cope with the disease is still a mystery. The first North American study looking at what men experience after a breast cancer diagnosis is considering many the different ways men and women deal with the diagnosis

Local representatives and senators were asked for more research funding to prevent pregnancy complications at the Women in Government's 7th annual regional conference, on September, 28.

The number of preterm birth and low birth-weight infants are the most pressing obstetrical issues today, reports Michael Paidas, M.D., associate professor and director of The Program for Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Women's Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine

An Oxford University researcher predicts a billion people will die from tobacco-related diseases such as cancer during this century.

Professor Sir Richard Peto says smoking currently kills about five million adults a year globally