Americans' health improved by 18 percent between 1990 and 2000, but has leveled off over the past four years and may be about to decline, according to the 2008 America's Health Rankings report.

Speed. That's the top reason nearly 600 adults and teens cited for frequently eating fast food in a new study. Nutrition and fun ranked last.

Teenage girls whose families eat meals together regularly have a 50 percent lower chance of using alcohol, tobacco or marijuana than girls from families who did not regularly spend such time together.

We have a unique opportunity to overturn the perverse agenda of the Religious Right.

Clues of why brand and genetic medications act and look different.

Today's global financial cloud got you feeling gray? Vermonter Jim Merkel sees a silver lining.

Products marketed for infants or billed as "microwave safe" release toxic doses of the chemical bisphenol A when heated.

Dolphins have a kick that would make Michael Phelps jealous - 212 pounds worth. How dolphins are able to swim so fast first preoccupied researchers back in 1936, when zoologist James Gray calculated the drag dolphins must overcome to swim faster than 20 m

The financial meltdown and economic crisis illustrated that corporations will destroy even themselves in search of profit.

Uncertainty was found to be far more stressful for highly neurotic people than dealing with a clearly negative outcome.