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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.

They are conditions that you may be hard-pressed to find in the medical literature. Bring them up in front of a physician, and in some cases you may get little more than a blank stare.

Breast cancer among pregnant women is a growing risk needing tough decisions. Do you abort - or endanger your baby's health with a toxic onslaught of chemotherapy?

Recently, our leading dietologists and nutrition specialists publicized a list of top 7 products, which can help modern men stay healthy for life, be active and always in a good physical shape.

A new risk factor for heart disease has been discovered, although this time it is something that can easily be corrected...

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

A rule on toxic substances in the workplace is one of about 20 contentious measures the Bush administration is planning to issue in its final weeks.

A British surgeon amputated the arm of a wounded teenager in Congo, Africa, with help from instructions sent to him by text message.

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.