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This year’s biggest advances are changing the face and future of your health. From cancer and Alzheimer’s disease to eating disorders and obesity, Health magazine reveals 20 breakthroughs you need to know about now.

Let’s face it. We live in a “go-go” world! Our lifestyle is harried, our food is fast and statistics now show it’s taking a toll on one of the most important parts of our life–our sleep. The 2002 National Sleep Foundation (NSF) Sleep in America

A chronic progressive degeneration of nerve cells in region of the brain may cause a Parkinson’s disease. This nerve cells job is manage body movement. Parkinson’s disease causes a decline in the initiation, smoothness, and speed of patient’s moveme

Older people tend to feel about 13 years younger than their chronological age, a new study finds. News, Headlines and Latest Stories on Yahoo! News

Diets and creams which claim their antioxidant properties could cheat the advances of time may be worthless, researchers suggest.

In my mail this week, were two studies that I found myself having difficulty in justifying the NIH’s substantiation for its funding.

EATING white bread and sugary breakfast cereals can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease and even cancer, new Australian research suggests.

Harvard researchers may have just found the “root cause of aging”: A group of proteins called sirtuins. Because of this research, we now know that while DNA damage increases the rate of aging, it isn’t the actual cause of aging. This research

A feline believed to be the world's oldest cat has celebrated his 125th birthday.

Exercise is known to help prevent cognitive decline and maintain the brain as people age, and now researchers think they know one reason why. People who engaged in long-term, regular exercise had substantially more small blood vessels in their brains ...