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Social iciness feels so cold to those on the receiving end that they will crave a hot drink, a new study has found.

Referred pain can make diagnoses difficult, but it also opens a research window for neuroscientists.

Nancy C. Andreasen uses M.R.I. to ask questions like: How is the brain physiology of the mentally ill different from that of normal people?

Many dieters are shunning deprivation diets and instead focusing on adding seasonal vegetables, nuts, berries and other healthful foods to their plates.

It used to be, an egg was an egg, but now the incredible, edible egg is becoming unintelligible.

Treadmill desks help to incorporate extra movement into the routines of sedentary workers.

A small Canadian study has found that people eat more after an intellectual exercise than they do after just sitting quietly for the same amount of time.

Most parents can relate to the daily challenge of finding foods that children will eat.

Some lawmakers and medical groups are calling for restrictions on advertisements for medical devices like artificial knees and heart stents, claiming they mislead patients.

Federal regulators defended their assessment that bisphenol A is safe even as a preliminary study reported increased health risks.

Amgen’s experimental bone drug reduced the risk of spinal fractures in women with osteoporosis by 68 percent in a pivotal clinical trial.

If you are on your company’s health plan, you might want to brace yourself for higher deductibles, as well as higher co-payments, higher premiums or both.

Staten Island University Hospital has agreed to return $88.9 million that prosecutors say it fraudulently obtained from government health insurance programs.

As energy and the economy consume the political discourse, health care is an issue that can seem to vacillate in importance by the day.

Anyone considering weight loss surgery should have a candid conversation with a doctor about what to expect.

A link between the onset of cold weather and heart attacks has been hypothesized for some time.

How does nicotine, without tobacco, affect the body?

The vexing issue of when bereavement or sadness becomes a disorder, and how it should be treated, requires more study.

Alzheimer’s closed in on a wife early, grindingly taking over more than half of our years together.

When the proper diagnosis comes too late.