Smoking Will Kill 1 Billion
One billion people will die from tobacco-related causes by the end of the century if current consumption trends continue, according to a global report released Thursday by the World Health Organization .
At a press conference held in midtown Ma...
Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat?
A woman pours Sweet’N Low into a coffee mug.
When it comes to dieting, most of us are willing to resort to a trick or two to help us curb our appetite and eat less — drinking water to fill up when we’re hungry, for example...
Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline
A baby is lifted out of the uterus while the surgeon severs the umbilical cord.
Correction Appended: February 27, 2008
The decision to donate a newborn’s umbilical-cord blood is, for many expectant mothers, a simple checkmar...
Hormone Therapy Risks Linger On
Researchers have discovered more dangers associated with hormone replacement therapy, which can help women decide if the risk is worth it for them.
Researchers with the Women’s Health Initiative are adding yet
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Testing for Heart Risk More Cheaply
A new study reveals that non-lab tests are just as reliable for diagnosing risk of heart attack.
Here’s a quick quiz: what’s the world’s No. 1 killer? It’s not AIDS, TB or malaria. The world’s deadliest disease is heart di...
Why Women Need Better Sleep
Poor sleep habits make women more vunerable to heart disease than men..
Most Women know that nothing kills a good complexion like a bad night’s slumber; there’s a reason, after all, that it’s called beauty sleep. If that’s n...
Wayne McGregor: Mind in Motion
YOUNG MASTER: McGregor rehearses his new show, Entity
Choreography is a mysterious process. It happens in upstairs rooms and behind closed doors, and the pronouncements of choreographers are often opaque. “You have to put thin...
