People with type 2 diabetes can often keep their blood sugar levels under control with diet, exercise, and medicine.
If parents rock a baby to sleep every night, he won't learn to fall asleep on his own.
Your brain is well protected from most damage. It sits inside a hard, bony skull.
The Vietnam Red Cross has launched a public education campaign to fight the spread of hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam.
Your body has 206 bones. These bones serve many different functions.
Taking a low dose of aspirin every day can prevent and possibly even treat cancer, fresh evidence suggests.
Who can resist those big brown eyes and cute doggie grin? Can a little reward from the table really hurt your dog?
Like many cancers, skin cancers -- including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma -- start as precancerous lesions.
The amount and type of fat in men's diets may affect the quality and concentration of sperm in their semen, according to a new small US study whose results need to be corroborated by a larger trial before we can say for sure whether this finding stacks up. But the researchers say in the meantime men already have much to gain by reducing the amount of saturated fat in their diet: we know too much of it is linked to poor health, and now it may also signify poorer fertility.
To understand albinism, you need to first know about melanin. Melanin is a chemical in our bodies that colors our skin, eyes, and hair.