Exercise keeps you happy and healthy. It not only makes you fit, but also lowers your risk of heart attack and protects your heart from damage if you actually have a heart attack.

The tsetse fly, a nasty little critter, is a taxi cab service for parasites causing sleeping sickness. Researchers hope to wipe out sleeping sickness by targeting the tsetse fly.

In most cases, patients do better if doctors can find and diagnose their disease early. This is true for kids who are affected by a type of childhood arthritis. Now, researchers have found a way that helps spot childhood arthritis early.

Everybody knows smoking is bad for you because it can give you lung cancer. What about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? COPD is usually caused by smoking too!

Widespread use of antibiotics has long been credited with creating antibiotic resistance in bacteria. A new study looked at the safety of long term antibiotic use for acne, and if those patients would be at risk for resistant bacteria

Doctors have known for a while that people with high levels of uric acid can also have high blood pressure.

Salt is in so many of the foods we eat. People fear that eating too much salt can raise their blood pressure, increasing the risk for other problems like heart disease. However, recent research shows that there may not be so much to worry about.

The omega-3s found in fish oil are known to be good for the heart and the brain. These healthy nutrients may be particularly healthful for moms-to-be.

Cancer isn't very sexy. The disease and its treatments usually affect a person's sexual desires, body image and willingness to be intimate. And talking about these matters isn't easy for patients or, it turns out, their health providers.

Proper exercise is important for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but people born with single ventricle heart disease have many hurdles to overcome in order to exercise safely. A new study indicates that safer exercise for this population may be just three pills a day of Viagra away.