A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 years ...

Mom always told us we'd go blind if we read in the dark. Does science back her up? Jim Sheedy, a doctor of vision science and director of the Vision Performance Institute at Oregon's Pacific Univers ...

You may not need a gym membership if you can pass these everyday health tests. See how many you can answer "yes" to. 如果你能通过下面这些每日健康测试，你也许就不需要办健 ...

Spending too much time in front of television, DVDs and computer games is taking its toll on children's physical and mental health, according to a government-commissioned report published on Wednesd ...

For most people, summer involves numerous daily shifts between scorching outdoor heat and frosty air-conditioned interiors. But does exposing the body to extreme temperature swings make people sick? ...

Following the research on the health effects of caffeine is dizzying. Positive in some cases, negative in others – it’s hard to know whether that morning cup of joe is a health elixir or slow-ac ...

New research shows obesity is the largest predictor of earlier puberty in girls, which is affecting white girls much sooner than previously reported. 新的研究结果显示，超重是女生早 ...

The fifty shades of gray hovering above China's cities could be sapping the country's men of their virility. 盘旋在中国城市上空的“五十度灰”有可能伤及该国男性的“男子 ...

Trans fat began as an Industrial Age breakthrough but evolved into a modern-day menace, offering a history in miniature of the food industry. 反式脂肪最初曾是工业时代的一项突破性 ...

Boys are 14% more likely to be born premature than girls, and even at the same gestational age boys have a higher risk of death and complications because girls develop faster in the womb, new global ...