The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report on the use of Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange has found that the defoliant may be linked to hypertension in former soldiers.

The report, which could affect millions of veterans, is the seventh update by IOM, which is studying the effects of the herbicide Agent Orange on veterans since the early 1990s

In the latest research, scientists have debunked the long-time myth that common cold can be cured by taking Vitamin C.

Scientists from Britain and Australia now say that the Vitamin C supplements, commonly perceived to be a remedy for common cold, have little effectiveness in prevention of cold and are useless at dealing with symptoms

Lawyers representing approximately 10,000 afflicted ground zero workers filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the company set up by Congress in the wake of 9/11 to oversee a $1 billion insurance fund.

The suit was filed against WTC Captive Insurance Company, Mayor Bloomberg and others for "the continued waste and misuse of the billion dollar fund allocated by Congress to pay for the workers' medical monitoring, medical treatment and compensation

A study has found that the women who try alternative therapies while trying to conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are 20 percent less likely to conceive than the women who use conventional medicines alone.

Research presented Wednesday at a Lyon meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology examined the impact of alternative therapies such as such as reflexology and herbal supplement on 800 Danish women

A study has found that Echinacea, the alternative popular herbal remedy is still the best way to cure the common cold. The herbal medicine not only reduces a person's chance of catching a cold by 58 percent but also cuts the duration of a cold by an average of 1.4 days.

The study, which is published in the July edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, was carried out by a team of researchers led by Dr. Craig Coleman from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut