As per recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), women between 21 and 65 years of age should get themselves regularly screened for cervical cancer. However, a new study has suggested that older women are at much higher risk of suffering from the disease and that is the reason they need to undergo regular cervical cancer screening.

Biogen Idec and partner Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB promised donations of hemophilia drugs for use in developing nations, in a bid to make it possible for thousands of patients to receive the much-needed treatment over the next decade.

The announcement was made during the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) meeting in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday.

After suffering a minor heart attack, the condition of chairman of the Samsung business empire has been reported to be stable at a Seoul hospital. The 72-year-old Lee Kun-hee showed signs of a heart attack, after which he was immediately sent to the Samsung Medical Center late Saturday.

A new study has uncovered that persons who have a variant of life span gene called KLOTHO had better brain skills like judgment, learning and memory, paying little heed to their age, sex or whether they have a hereditary danger variable for Alzheimer's sickness

Age has nothing to do with making an effort to remain fit. One can start exercising in any age and it would deliver its effects. A new study finds exercise to derive beneficial results even if one starts doing later in life.

Health officials have revealed that higher number of men is suffering from syphilis, which has reached its highest level since 1995 in the US. CDC has warned that it is a major public-health threat because syphilis and the
behaviors associated with acquiring it significantly increase the chances of acquiring and transmitting HIV.

It may be surprising for many women but it is true that beer avoids rheumatoid arthritis among women. A new study says having the ale a few times a week may help women avoid the painful condition.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston said the disease, which is a kind of arthritis linked with immune system dysfunction, affects more women than men.

Nutritional deficiency is already a major global health concern. And now, a study has found the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere owing to climate change, which may reduce the nutritional quality of some of the most important food crops in the world.