Before a tough sports competition, athletes might do well to reach for the red in their closets, say British researchers.

A new study suggests that multitasking skills don't fully emerge until late in the teenage years.

Colonoscopy may be the "preferred method of screening" for colon cancer and rectal cancer in women, say doctors in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Pregnancy factors, parental psychiatric history, and preterm delivery may be associated with an increased risk of autism, says a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who take atypical antipsychotics such as clozapine, olanzapine, or risperidone, do not appear to be at increased risk of giving birth to a child with a birth defect, Canadian investigators report.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Even modest rainstorms can overwhelm inadequate sewer systems, unleashing dangerous pathogens into lakes and rivers used for drinking water, a U.S. environmental group said on Tuesday.

NEWYORK (Reuters Health) - Individuals who suffer from acute migraine headaches are likely to find relief with aspirin, according to results of a new study.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When used for colorectal cancer screening in women without symptoms of the disease, flexible sigmoidoscopy will miss 65 percent of advanced colorectal lesions, a study shows.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A test using two chemotherapy agents to treat breast cancer was halted after two women in the study died, French researchers reported on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new blood test that detects early prostate cancer antigen (EPCA) promises to be a "powerful complement" to standard prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for identifying patients with prostate cancer, researchers report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Four out of 10 teenagers with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia visit pro-eating disorder web sites devoted to helping people lose weight and hide the disorder from friends and family, according to new

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two out of three Americans with type-2 diabetes do not have their disease under control and risk early deaths from stroke, heart attack or kidney failure as well as blindness and limb loss, according to a report

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The most well-liked seventh- and eight-graders are more likely to be well-adjusted -- and to adopt risky behaviors such as drinking, smoking marijuana, and shoplifting, new study findings suggest.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers being treated for alcohol and drug problems may fare better when they also receive therapy for other mental health conditions they may have, according to a new study.

Judges perceive child witnesses as being more honest than adults when testifying in court, but recognize that children's limited memory and communication skills, and greater suggestibility may make them less reliable than adults.

Language cues can provide the "glue" that helps fasten certain visual patterns into small children's memories, according to results to be presented by a Johns Hopkins University graduate student at the 17th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, held

In this week's journal Nature, researchers report finding the first gene responsible for inherited susceptibility of testicular cancer in mice. The Ter mutation occurs in a gene called dead end, which is involved in normal testicular development and which may

A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin have demonstrated a new way of fighting antibiotic resistance: by stopping evolution.

A novel way of administering an anti-cancer drug to bone-marrow transplant patients using continuous infusion may be more effective and safer than the method currently used, new study findings indicate.

EYE patients in Kayunga have cause to celebrate as the district is to get a sh3.2b eye care centre.