The right exercise regimen could help combat those extra inches around your midsection.

Diet and exercise are key to controlling mild high blood pressure. But a new review suggests that another method of blood pressure control could also potentially save lives.

Having high blood pressure in a test at the doctor's office may not mean you have it all the time. Monitoring blood pressure outside the doctor's office, however, may lead to more accurate results.

Bristol-Myers Squibb's new skin cancer drug has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Prepackaged baked desserts are filling shelves but not shopping carts.

British-born blues and rock singer Joe Cocker has died at the age of 70 after battling lung cancer.

A federal agency is reaching out to the American public to let them know how to keep their families safe from a potentially dangerous item.

Love reading before bed? You may want to stick with an old-fashioned book and leave the e-reader on the charger.

Hormones yes, hormones no — the recommendations for menopausal women have swung back and forth in the last 10 years.

Some things just don't mix — and that applies to medications. One antibiotic combined with statins may be dangerous. Fortunately, other types of antibiotics may be safer when mixed with statins.