The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xyntha, a Wyeth drug Thursday to prevent and control bleeding in patients with hemophilia, a rare blood-clotting disorder. Xyntha, is a genetically engineered version of a blood protein that's essential for clotting.

Hemophilia is a rare, inherited bleeding disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally. In hemophiliacs, the protein, called factor VIII, is missing or its effectiveness is decreased

At least 82 young children have died by playing the "choking game" from 1995 to 2007, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday.

In the practice of "choking game," also known as "blackout game," "pass out game," "scarf game" and "space monkey", teens try to experience a fleeting "high" by strangling themselves with their hands or a noose or having someone else strangle them in order to cut off the oxygen supply to the brain

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

Asmanex Twisthaler, the new asthma inhaler has received federal approval for preventing asthma attacks in young children.

Manufactured by the drug maker Schering-Plough Corp., it's the first once-daily, inhaled corticosteroid medicine for asthma for once-daily maintenance treatment of asthma in children as young as 4

It's nice to have someone to talk with before going to bed but do not do it using your mobile phones at bedtime as it can cause insomnia, a new study shows.

A new study conducted by researchers at the Edinburgh Sleep Center revealed that using mobile phones during bed times put your health at risk