Drugs being developed to treat cancer may also help children with a disease called progeria, according to U.S. researchers.

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome or HGPS accelerates aging and often kills patients when they are in their teens

A Study suggests women are nearly twice as likely as men to die from complications of heart bypass surgery.

In a review of records for 15,440 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), researchers found that 4.24-percent of women died during or immediately after surgery, versus 2.23-percent of men, a statistically significant difference

An international team of scientists determines the three-dimensional molecular structure of a promising malaria-vaccine component.

The team hopes to produce a successful vaccine for the disease, which currently infects approximately 400 million people worldwide, killing about 2 million of them each year

After conducting tests on several prominent Californians, a health advocacy group finds traces of high exposure to dangerous chemicals.

Commonwealth's study finds their subjects, including actor Peter Coyote, newspaper columnist Steve Lopez, and nine other influential state residents, have dangerously high amounts of toxic chemicals in their systems

A new study finds that obese adults are less likely than thinner people to get essential preventative health care, despite their higher risk of disease.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that obese white adults had lower rates of mammography, Pap testing and flu vaccination than normal-weight people did