Healthy articles

Sometime not too long after the year 2050, demographers tell us, earth's human population will top 10 billion people. How can they all be fed?

Singing sensation Miley Cyrus recently made headlines for a racy dance on the MTV Video Music Awards. But a reference in her song to the rave drug "molly" is getting even more attention now.

The teen birth rate has reached a historic low in the US, a new report shows. Meanwhile, the overall birth rate is evening out and around four million babies were born last year.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a well-known phenomenon among soldiers, rape victims, and survivors of natural catastrophes. Changes in the diagnostic criteria for PTSD recognize that the disorder can also result from chronic racism.

Can't fit into your jeans? The problem may not just be your genes. It may also be the bacteria in your digestive tract.

Miscarriage — spontaneous pregnancy loss before 20 weeks — is a common occurrence. Are you familiar with the symptoms and types of miscarriage, and would you know what to do in the aftermath?

Modern drugs are very effective in managing HIV infection but are unable to provide the cure. Some recent developments target the issue at the core of this problem. This allows to hope that curative drug for HIV is only few years away.

When OTC medicines are used for non-medicinal reasons other than what they are specified for, it can result in dangerous consequences. Common OTC medicines have marijuana-like properties and produce a "high" feeling of euphoria and relaxation.

Have you ever had an experience that makes you ooh and ah and feel tingly all over? Millions of people have, so many that a new description for this feeling has found its way into the language, braingasm, or brain orgasm, also known as brain shivers.

More than twice as many American teenagers used electronic cigarettes in 2012 compared to the previous year. Public health experts worry that millions of teens may become addicted to nicotine.