If society is to keep former inmates who are mentally ill from returning to prison, changes are needed. Medical researchers say inmates must be carefully diagnosed for both substance abuse and mental health issues.

People with diabetes are often treated with insulin. Now, it seems that insulin also can repair some of the damage done by heart disease, a condition that diabetes patients are especially prone to.

Openness, a personality trait most believe people either have or do not have, seems to come alongside cognitive gains. New research suggest senior's mental capacity benefits from playing mind-games

The water you drink today may be impacting your 'mental health'. A new study found contaminated drinking water caused a statistically significant increase in mental illness in the 1980s .

Pre-hypertensive middle-aged men may have more to worry about than developing full-blown high blood pressure. They also are at an increased risk for a heart arrhythmia.

Blame it on the hormones. Male and female hormones are at the root of prostate cancer and breast cancer. They may also be the reason significantly more men than women develop liver cancer.

Years ago, cholesterol-lowering statin medications were thought to possibly cause cancer, bur large clinical trials disproved that therapy. Now, it seems these drugs may actually do just the opposite.

New research opens the door for new therapies to treat one of the worst sorts of cancer. Finding a genetic cause for esophageal cancer offers tremendous new opportunities.

Children of alcoholics may need to watch their own drinking, a new study suggests.