Sometimes, the medications needed to function and live a quality life cause side effects that can make life quite uncomfortable.

New study reveals that 90 percent of urban dust comes from dry lakebeds.

A lack of physical activity, a poor diet and too much stress are taking their toll on the health of Canadians, says a new UBC study.

A team of Texas A&M researchers found that spectroscopy may have a new use in food production from the field to the grocery store.

Eight months of daily, afterschool physical activity in previously inactive 8- to 11-year-olds with obesity and overweight improved key measures of their cardiovascular health like good cholesterol levels, aerobic fitness and percent body fat, but didn’t improve others like arterial stiffness, an early indicator of cardiovascular risk, investigators report.

Barbecued, stir-fried or roasted, there’s no doubt that Aussies love their meat. 

The holidays are upon us, and as families visit Grandma and Grandpa’s and other homes that may not be used to having little ones underfoot, it’s an important reminder to safely store dangerous products. 

Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to findings in “Health Benefits of Air Pollution Reduction,” new research published in the American Thoracic Society’s journal, Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The findings pave the way for understanding the mechanisms by which vitamin A operates in the brain to translate day length encoding into seasonal physiological and behavioral responses in animals.

A study by Texas A&M researchers found that people living near irregularly shaped parks had a lower mortality risk.