Health And Fitness

For those who live with it, dementia can be devastating. But year by year, new drugs, technologies and techniques are being developed that ...

Justin Pumfrey/Getty Images Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. One reason so many American women are overweight may be that we ar...

Depression may lower the effectiveness of the shingles vaccine, a new study found. The research showed that adults with untreated depressio...

You are certainly right that sore shoulders are common, especially as a person ages. About half of all middle-aged tennis players suffer fr...

Pregnant women who took daily supplements of DHA, a type of omega-3 fatty acid, had longer gestations, bigger babies and fewer early preter...

A government task force formally recommended on Monday that healthy postmenopausal women avoid taking low daily doses of vitamin D and calc...

A 10-year study of more than 3,000 women has found that dietary iron may reduce the risk for premenstrual syndrome, while potassium intake ...