As compression-only CPR has grown in use, the question has remained whether it's as effective as the traditional form that includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Two new studies say yes. FULL STORY | WATCH: CPR in 2 minutes
The millions of people who take calcium supplements to strengthen aging bones and ward off osteoporosis may be putting themselves at increased risk of a heart attack, a new study has found.
When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
In extreme cases, hoarders' obsession has led to fires, attracted vermin, endangered their families, that experts describe it as a growing public health problem.
Cloning has been a controversial issue since German embryologist Hans Spemann first made a pair of adorable, genetically identical salamander twins out of a single egg, way back in nineteen-dickety-two.
Drinking alcohol may ease the pain of -- and lower the risk of developing -- rheumatoid arthritis, a potentially crippling autoimmune disorder, a new study finds.
When President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990, he addressed concerns the sweeping civil rights law would be ''too vague or costly, or may lead endlessly to litigation.''
Trent Northcutt, 42, a corporate executive in New York City, had been suffering from lower back pain and leg pain for about three years, to the point that he was "cautious about picking up the simplest thing," he remembers.
It was nearly impossible to imagine in the early days of HIV/AIDS: Men who've had the disease 30 years are still alive and active. Hear from three of them.
When she was a public health administrator for the state of California, Kathryn Hall-Trujillo found that her greatest challenge was paying for babies who were born sick.
An Irving, Texas, woman told a 911 operator that she strangled her two young children Monday because they were autistic, according to a recording of the call.
"I see a scared, scared woman," said Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael, in an interview with CNN's Larry King, referring to how he felt watching the troubled movie star being handcuffed and taken away to jail on Tuesday.
A little cold medicine can make an unruly kid calm down. It's an often-repeated joke -- or advice -- that parents share on the playground or on Twitter and Facebook. But drugging healthy children can have unintended consequences and could be a form a child abuse, new research suggests.
