Some antibiotics alter the normal population of bacteria that live in your gut, causing symptoms like diarrhea. Unfortunately in some patients with an immune system weakened by chemotherapy, the consequences can be worse.

No matter how effective a drug may be, if it is not safe it cannot be used. A new study has found out how safe a common asthma treatment is.

Lung cancer. Cardiovascular disease. Oral cancer. These are just a few of the accelerated risks smokers live with and could - well you know. Another form of cancer has been added to the list.

It's no easy thing to treat cancer in a regular patient. But it's an even more difficult job when the patient has both cancer and HIV.

Anyone who has heard the phrase "you are what you eat" might be interested to know that scientists are starting to link personality traits to eating habits.  

Everyone knows that it feels nice to have friends, but did know that keeping close friends as children has real physiological and psychological benefits later in life?

Being told you have cancer is definitely a shock. But sometimes it's more shocking to find out that not all cancers are created equal.

In some patients, multiple sclerosis attacks the body in such a way that leg muscles begin to deteriorate, and many patients end up with a cane or walker before they reach old age.

Head and neck cancers are one of the forms of the disease that are increasing. Recent studies have shown that nature may have an excellent treatment for these cancers.