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Many American parents of children aged 2 and younger still give over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to their kids despite U.S. Food and ...

Whether it's a squeeze of the hand, a big bear hug, a kneading massage, even a bedroom romp, touch is shaping up to be the ultimate mind-body medicine.

Changes are designed to aid Medicare prescription drug recipients, offer seniors more preventive care and limit insurance firms' profit margins.

The amount of one type of antibiotic given to livestock outweighs all the bacteria-killing medicine

Giving alternative treatments such as homeopathic remedies instead of conventional medicines to children may have deadly side effects in rare ...

In a development that could change the battle against AIDS, researchers have found that taking a daily antiretroviral pill greatly lowers the chances of getting infected with the virus.

Environmental experts have warned that the world's tiger population could soon be extinct because of illegal trophy hunting, deteriorating habitats and the use of tiger parts in eastern medicine.

Herbal medicines marketed as weight loss aids have been found to include a drug withdrawn in Europe and US on safety grounds.

An official with the Vatican criticized the decision to award the Nobel prize for Medicine to British doctor Robert G.

Death rates from breast cancer in Britain have dropped by a third in a generation, a pan-European study shows.