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It is virtually impossible to live without some stress but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, says Dr Christian Jessen

Alexa Chung’s ‘dip tips’ at London Fashion Week have made dual colouring the new top-hair trend, as Dara Coleman reports

Melissa Jacobs, who was at the centre of the Lord Triesman affair, tells how she has had to deal with a debilitating and stressful condition

If you knew you had one year to live, would you have medical tests you didn’t need?  A surprising number of patients with late-stage cancer get useless screening tests for new cancers that couldn’t possibly kill them.

As the overall number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, one country — Ethiopia — is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the U.S. while winning praise for improving orphans’ prospects at home.

Subtle moves, like hiding chocolate milk behind plain milk and displaying fruit in pretty baskets, can entice kids to make healthier choices in school lunch lines, studies show.  So the USDA is hiring food behavior scientists to help improve kids’s use of the federal school lunch program.
 

The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether drug companies can be sued for claims of serious side effects from childhood vaccines without driving vaccine makers from the market and risking a public health crisis.

Women who make healthy lifestyle choices lower their risk of developing invasive breast cancer, regardless of whether they have a family history of the disease, according to a new study.

New research suggests we may have the ability to put “bad genes” on good behavior, reducing the risk for cancer and more for ourselves, our kids, even our grandkids, all through everyday habits.

Kidney stones should be added to the list of health problems linked with hormone pill use after menopause, according to an analysis of landmark government research that first raised alarms about the products.