Breastfeeding for at least six months may help reduce a woman's risk of an aggressive form of breast cancer, new study has found.

That finding, which comes from a new study published in Monday's advance online edition of Cancer, is based on two breast cancer studies that together included nearly 2,500 women aged 55-79 in Washington state. The group included 1,140 women who had had breast cancer

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Public Health Agency of Canada announced Saturday that it has traced the deadly listeriosis outbreak in Ontario to a Maple Leaf food processing plant in Toronto.

The announcement by health officials prompted the food company to heighten its recall of meat products. Maple Leaf also issued a public apology for the outbreak

Women who undergo severe stress during pregnancy risk giving birth to children who develop schizophrenia, a complex brain disorder, a study suggests.

Study leader Dr. Dolores Malaspina, from the New York University School of Medicine, and colleagues looked at birth data for 88,829 people born in Jerusalem from 1964 to 1976 and cross-referenced the information with Israel's national psychiatry registry

Children who are exposed to pet dogs, cats or other furry friends at home can develop problem snoring when they grow up, a new study has revealed. Heavy snoring has been linked to early death, heart disease and stroke, not to mention the obvious problems of sleep deprivation for the snorer and their partner.

Karl Franklin, the study's lead author and a physician at University Hospital here, analyzed sleep habits and other childhood hospitalizations of men and women aged 25 to 54 -- all residents of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Estonia -- and got responses from 15,556

August is Psoriasis Awareness month and National Institutes of Health scientists say that as many as 7.5 million Americans suffer from the skin condition that occurs about equally in women and men.

Psoriasis is a chronic disease of the immune system that affects the skin, and a person's skin is the bodies' largest organ