While fish contain nutrients that are important for the brain development of the baby, the mercury content could end up damaging pregnant women and their children.

Orgasm rates for single women are less predictable than men’s when having sex with a familiar partner.

The incidence of polio has dropped more than 99 percent since international eradication efforts against the poliovirus began in 1988.

Sickle cell disease, a group of inherited blood disorders, affects almost 100,000 individuals in the U.S.

The rate of teenagers using sunscreen has actually dropped 12 percent, according to a new report.

Elderly woman in India sought medical attention for abdominal pain, and the cause turned out to be the 38-year-old skeleton of a baby from a record-old ectopic pregnancy.

Vaccine rates for HPV remain low despite the fact that the virus is associated with many types of cancer.

New research shows that men who abstain from sex before marriage have a good support network that disappears after they wed, leaving them suddenly on their own to deal with the new world of sex.

Sleep problems are much more common in the elderly compared to younger people.

Patients, growers, potential dispensary owners, and entrepreneurs, all totaling almost 300, packed a town hall meeting Wednesday in Chicago to ask questions about the state’s new medical cannabis pilot program.