Too Much Advice Could Be Bad for Your Health
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Some people with chronic health problems who seek online advice would be better off just listening to their doctors, new research suggests.
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The elderly risk accidentally harming themselves by taking potentially lethal mixtures of medicines, an expert warns.
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Taking too much vitamin E has been linked to an increased death risk, according to research presented at the American Heart Association&#39;s annual scientific sessions in New Orleans.
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Science & environment: Ben Goldacre: Homeopaths would be fine, if they could just shut up about serious stuff, like Aids, or malaria, or MMR.
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New guidelines are warning people of the dangers of not choosing their plastic surgeons carefully enough.
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Maybe you're saving too much for retirement. You may also be eating too many vegetables, spending too much time with the kids, exercising too regularly and doing your job too diligently.
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People could be risking their lives if they take even moderately high doses of vitamin E, mounting evidence suggests. The latest study by Johns Hopkins University found people who took even half of the recommended
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The morning commute can be a lot more hazardous to your health than you might think. Researchers in Germany say people prone to heart attack face triple the usual risk just after they&#39;ve commuted.
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Public-health campaigns regularly plug exercise as a sure-fire way to avoid an early grave. But that message may be too simplistic.
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People taking moderately high doses of vitamin E to improve their health might just be doing the opposite, according to new research that links vitamin E to an increased death risk.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Make no mistake. There's no sure-fire way to prevent cancer.
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Doctors are saying that the lack of knowledge about preventing bone disease often leads to bad practice.
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For some patients, it can be difficult to determine how much treatment is just too much.
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Smoking not only damages health, it is bad for the brain too, according to a Scottish study spanning nearly 60 years. Professor Lawrence Whalley and his team looked at how the cognitive
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CHICAGO _ The Internet is full of health advice. A Google search for hypertension produces nearly 35 million choices, while obesity scores almost 29 million and prostate cancer hits 19.5 million.  Some people might think that's enough, but Jeff Bohnson thinks there's room for one more.
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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back...
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Two recent studies that suggested oral contraceptives reduced a woman&#39;s risk of heart disease and cancer seemed to take conventional wisdom and stand it on its head.