Women are now having children later in life, with the average age of first-time mothers rising from 21 years old in the 1970s to 26 years old now. Possibly because older women have a higher rate of

Allergic reactions to peanuts or tree nuts such as walnuts or almonds (P/TN) can be life-threatening, and are a significant concern to parents of allergic children. Such children require careful monitoring in their early years to ensure they do not consume even traces of these allergens.

Menopause ushers in what can be a rather unpleasant period in a woman s life. In response to a natural end in endogenous estrogen

Another reason to make sure to get your HPV vaccine! I mean, besides preventing many cancer, there seems to be a link between HPV and the dreaded pregnancy complication, preeclampsia.

More than 90 percent of the United States population has received the measles vaccination. Because of our effective vaccination programs, measles is no longer endemic in the US and has not been for over a decade.

When prescription drug can potentially have dangerous side effects or interactions with other drugs, the FDA will prescribe a so-called black box warning on the label. The point is to alert both prescribers and consumers to the possibility of negative effects on health. Now, a California lawmaker wants to extend such warnings to, would you believe it, sugary drinks.

Motor vehicle accidents are one of the leading causes of death in children in the United States. Between 2002 and 2011, about 9,000 children ages 12 and under were killed in motor vehicle

Most regular exercisers have, at one point or another, tried to exercise at a certain percentage of their maximal heart rates say between 50 and 70 percent. But the figure they use (220 beats per minute minus one s age) to calculate this percentage is wrong,

ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom was invited to be a regular contributor to the very popular website called Science 2.0. Their site traffic is about 1 million visits per month, and together with our new recent media exposure three quotes in USA Today we believe that the ACSH message will soon be heard by many more people.

The recent death of a young Arkansas woman from the H1N1 flu virus is not just a testament of how traditionally innocuous