Health

Caffeine can provide boost to your workout

Study after study has shown that ingesting caffeine both before and during exercise extends the time before fatigue — and not just marginally.

Fitness

Exercise till you drop ... out?

Here it is, folks, the secret to sticking with an exercise program longer than a few weeks or a few months: join a group fitness class.

Black women combat obesity with candid talk and motivating each other

Nicole Ari Parker was motivated by frustration. For Star Jones, it was a matter of life or death. Toni Carey wanted a fresh start after a bad breakup.

Women's Health

Black women combat obesity with candid talk and motivating each other

Nicole Ari Parker was motivated by frustration. For Star Jones, it was a matter of life or death. Toni Carey wanted a fresh start after a bad breakup.

Women's health

Taking tamoxifen for 10 years instead of 5 cuts breast cancer relapses and deaths, study finds

Men's Health

Saskatchewan man's 'stache tops worldwide individual Movember fundraising

A Saskatchewan man had hoped to raise $50,000 for the Movember campaign for prostate cancer research and men's mental health.

Male infant circumcision

German opposition lawmakers propose circumcision ban for boys under 14

Multivitamins may slightly lower cancer risk in men but not their odds of heart disease: study

Seniors

Pattern of broken bones, brain injuries flags possible elder abuse: study

Older people who have a wrist or hip fracture often get such injuries after taking a fall. But researchers say there's a distinct pattern of broken bones and bruises that suggests something more sinister — elder abuse.

New gene triples risk for Alzheimer's disease; may give clues into causes

Even healthy baby boomers won't escape heart problems, but they can put them off several years

Children

Prenatal gene testing spots far more fetal defects, study finds; results could spur wider use

A new study sets the stage for wider use of gene testing in early pregnancy. Scanning the genes of a fetus reveals far more about potential health risks...

Rule changes barring aggressive checks cut hockey injuries like concussion: study

Experts say more awareness, better enforcement may be helping to reduce child sex abuse

Rasouli case puts tough questions of end of life care in Supreme Courts hands

Who gets to decide when medical treatments are no longer worth pursuing and should be ended? The doctors? The patients? In the case of those who can't...

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