Ariana Cha

If medical error were considered a disease, a new study has found, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease and cancer.

The decline of the past decade has occurred in all regions in the country and among all races. But the most radical changes have been among Hispanic and black teens, whose birth rates have dropped nearly 50 percent since 2006.

Brazilian scientists studying 151 patients who recently sought help at a local hospital for symptoms similar to those caused by Zika have made a worrisome discovery - that the virus may be associated with a second serious brain issue in adults.

All American adults should be screened for depression as part of their normal health-care routine, a U.S. panel recommended. Thepanel also singled out maternal mental illness for the first time by suggesting that women be screened during pregnancy and after childbirth.

The guidelines drop the warning about avoiding cholesterol in the diet. The new version also eases up on warnings about salty foods and omits a previous suggestion that Americans eat breakfast in order to stay fit.

Researchers crunched data from 50,000 employees at 11 companies to come up with what may be the world's most detailed personality profile of a "toxic worker."

Cornell University researchers have found that men tend to eat significantly more - nearly double - when in the presence of the fairer sex and that this excess may be "motivated by a hardwired male urge to demonstrate prowess."

There’s been a lot of controversy about caffeine-spiked energy drinks in recent years after a spate of deaths and overdoses related to the beverages.

The American Cancer Society on Tuesday recommended that women move away from the early and frequent mammograms that have been standard practice in the United States for nearly two decades.

As if you didn't have enough to worry about with the new school year starting, now there's this: "Selfie lice."

The "mommy lobby" has been successful at opening the doors to legalizing marijuana — if only a crack, in some places — where others have failed.

Although most developed nations have required companies to label GMOs in foods for more than a decade, support for such a measure in the United States has just recently begun to gain traction in corporate boardrooms, state legislatures and courts.