People with low-to-normal cholesterol levels, but elevated liver proteins known as C-reactive protein, or CRP, could significantly lower their risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular disease by taking drugs now prescribed only to patients with high cholesterol.

Nearly 18,000 people in 26 countries participated in the clinical trial, the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine Sunday, Nov. 9

The Food and Drug Administration's determination that a widely-used chemical found in baby bottles is safe contained mistakes and should be redone, an FDA panel unanimously ruled.

The chemical, bisphenol-A, or BPA, is also found in many other plastic products

Six students from Rice University in Houston are creating a beer than contains more of the red wine's healthy ingredients that help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

The research team's leader, junior Taylor Stevenson, said they are using genetic engineering to create a beer with a higher resveratrol content

A U.S. district court issued Tuesday a temporary injunction stopping a New Zealander and a Texan from sending billions of spam e-mails to sell their bogus male-enhancement and other prescription drugs.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois also froze the assets of four companies owned by Lance Atkinson, a New Zealand citizen living in Australia, and Jody Smith of Texas, in response to the petition of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver had a medical milestone last weekend: 13-year-old Sikander Sakota surviving a potentially fatal heart disease, when he became the youngest patient in the world to receive the world's smallest heart pump.

Sahota started feeling ill last Saturday and was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, an infection that destroys heart muscle. A heart pump was inserted into his groin and threaded into his heart. From there, the pump began helping his heart push blood