For children younger than five years of age, supplementing oral vaccine with a shot of inactivated poliovirus vaccine substantially boosts intestinal immunity to the crippling poliovirus.

A new study has found that heart health goes up as the amount of alcohol consumed goes down, even for those who only drink lightly.

Researchers compared the weather at the time patients first felt lower back pain with weather conditions one week and one month before the start of pain.

Letrozole may help increase chances of conception in women with PCOS.

Employment rates among the mentally ill have declined continuously over the past decade despite nearly $4 billion in annual federal funding to support them.

With the use of opioid drugs on the rise and medicinal and recreational marijuana gaining momentum, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy announces its latest update to its blueprint for reducing drug use and associated consequences.

A recent study has found that the daily caloric intake of Americans has not changed much but the rate of physical activity has fallen off sharply over the last 20 years.

The law will require that dispensaries set aside two percent of their product to ensure low income patients get the medicine they need.

HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that is passed on through genital contact as well as by skin-to-skin contact.