Guys, want to lower high blood pressure? Sauna often, or nearly every day for the best results. That's the primary finding of a recent study which found that frequent sauna bathing cuts the risk of elevated blood pressure nearly 50 percent, as compared to those who went just once a week.

Here's great news for diabetics who need to check their blood-glucose levels frequently: the FDA just approved a non-invasive monitor. It's a major mile-marker on the road to facilitating optimal management of a very high maintenance disease.

As the final weeks of her pregnancy approach, ACSH's Ana Dolaskie shares why the last month is the hardest, and perhaps the most rewarding.

Most of us know a bit about rabies. But do you know which animals are most likely to carry the infection? Or did you that you might have been bitten by a bat? Recently on World Rabies Day, we tackled a few of the lesser-known aspects of rabies. 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best known for her comedic work on VEEP and Seinfeld, announced Thursday on Twitter that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Here's what the Emmy-Award winning actress may be facing.

This story should remind us how easy it is to pull off acts of terrorism. With drugs like fentanyl and carfentanyl pouring into our country, officials should treat synthetic opioids as a terrorist threat in addition to a public health threat.

Agent Orange was used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. A recent paper indicates that the chemicals which comprise AO persist in high concentrations in some pockets of South Vietnam. In addition, they could be causing hormonal imbalances in babies born in those regions.

In 2012, we learned that something as basic as drinking coffee might help control movement symptoms for sufferers of Parkinson's disease. But after closer inspection and expanded study, that conclusion has been withdrawn.

It is Game On!  for President Trump appointee Scott Gottlieb, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Things are definitely changing there, and at this point, it's a pretty good start.

CVS, the national pharmacy and healthcare company just instituted regulations that will give its pharmacists the ability to overrule doctors who write opioid prescriptions. What CVS just pulled off is wrong in so many ways. Who will pay? Pain patients and their doctors.