Whether you're basking on the beach during vacation, coasting down glittering white snow on a weekend ski trip, or simply walking the dog or running errands, sunlight's ultraviolet rays can damage your skin year-round. Yet a new study by behavioral researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center shows that most American adults engage in multiple behaviors that boost their risk of skin cancer by increasing their exposure to UV rays..... full story

Overweight people who lose a moderate amount of weight get an immediate benefit in the form of better heart health, according to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. And the heart improvements happen whether that weight is shed by eating less or exercising more..... full story

The January, 2008 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the finding of researchers at the University of Cambridge and the MRC Centre for Nutrition and Cancer in Cambridge, England of an association of high vitamin C levels and a lower risk of stroke over a decade of follow up..... full story

A new scientific review of the most current research shows the link between eating oatmeal and cholesterol reduction to be stronger than when the FDA initially approved the health claim's appearance on food labels in 1997..... full story

A new study from Danish researchers has found that childless men have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer than fathers, and that, paradoxically, the more children a father has, the lower the risk of the disease..... full story

An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer?s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation..... full story