For years, doctors have relied on familiar vital signs—heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen levels—to monitor someone's health. But researchers at the University of Missouri believe one ...

I know why I’m here today, Mr. Secretary. An inquiry? Right. It’s a setup, but I got this place surrounded with nurses, and every last one knows how to apply a tongue depressor.

Every week seems to bring a new health headline, whether it’s about climbing autism rates, changing vaccination recommendations or unexpected cancer risks. For people trying to make informed choices ...

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

School-age vaccinations to end in Florida Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations ...

Doctors may be able to spare patients unnecessarily aggressive breast cancer treatments by collecting and testing cancer ...

New blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's disease faster and more accurately, researchers reported Sunday – but ...

A doctor explains 11 common mistakes people make when measuring blood pressure, revealing how small errors can lead to ...

A new three-pronged blood test can highlight people with a nearly tripled risk for heart attack, Wake Forest University ...

The test looks for two measures of cholesterol and one measure of inflammation Originally published on healthday.com, part of ...