Doctors should ask their teenage patients what type of music they prefer to determine if they are at risk of developing a mental illness or committing suicide, researchers say.

WOMEN have always suspected that men can't live without them - now figures have proved it.

Asking patients to monitor their own medications can be fatal, as exemplified by the recent death of actor Heath Ledger.

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Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research.

Behavioral techniques can actually cure chronic insomnia and studies have reported that between 70% and 80% of those who are treated with non drug methods experience improved sleep.

Our inability to produce a chemical present in every other primate may be linked to a series of chronic diseases. Roger Highfield explains more.

It may be hard to believe that watching TV can damage our health, especially the health of kids, and disturb daily life, but there are many reasons that this is true.

Three months of aerobic exercise decreased body fat and calorie intake in overweight and obese people, according to a new study, and the researchers believe that changes to a central nervous system factor are responsible.

14 Research-proven ways to boost brain power.