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Supermodel Beverly Johnson brings to us a revelatory and redemptive memoir of her life in a book titled, “The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir”. In this book, she passionately and honestly voices out her experiences, including as a ...

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs [More]

Antidepressants restore well-being to many people, but sometimes at the cost of such side effects as weight gain or loss of interest in sex.

Once adult lab mice learn to associate a particular stimulus--a sound, a flash of light--with the pain of an electric shock, they don't easily forget it, even when researchers stop the shocks. But a new study in the December 23 issue of Science shows that the antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) gives mice the youthful brain plasticity they need to learn that a once-threatening stimulus is now benign.

Nearly 100,000 adults 65 or over sent to ER for drug-related side effect each year, two-thirds linked to four drugs

Heavy meth users shown more likely than abusers of other drugs to be diagnosed with severe mental disorder

Tuesday, November 1 Big Pharma is worried.

The latest offering from the prizes-for-innovation organization is specifically looking at the genes of the super elderly.

It sounds either really crazy, or kind of obvious. But according to new research, pick-up soccer could help homeless men avert the risk of an early death. Homeless people are known to have poor health and life expectancy.

Caffeine is a trickier substance than we generally acknowledge. Here's what you need to know to get more out of caffeine--starting with a suggestion to go cold turkey. Caffeine seems so simple, even if you're a veteran user.

In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to drastically improved treatment. If you were concerned you had HIV (and lived in America), it would be easy enough to get some blood drawn at a clinic near your house, and wait a few days (or even hours) for the results.

Federal drug safety officials are warning consumers about counterfeit sex-enhancement pills that are sold as supplements but contain the drugs used in Viagra and another medication.

New drug approved for use by type 2 diabetics who can't control their blood sugar with other drugs

Be careful what you wish for, I think as my husband reaches again for his new toy.

By Marian Turner Attaching chemotherapy drugs to small particles called nanodiamonds can make the drugs more effective, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine . Anticancer drugs tend to become ineffective because cancer cells quickly pump them out before they have had time to do their work.