Herpes News from the NY Times.

A study of farming colonies in Canada found that giving flu vaccine to schoolchildren protected the community.

Through a controversial practice called vision therapy, some optometrists say they can treat learning disabilities.

DePuy Orthopaedics alerted doctors to a high early failure rate of its artificial hip after announcing it would phase out the device citing slow sales.

This wonderful winter seafood stew is easy to make and to serve.

A procedure gains popularity but doesn't improve survival odds.

Beta amyloid, which was once thought to be a chief villain in Alzheimer’s, may be part of the brain’s normal defenses, researchers at Harvard suggested.

Navigating difficult years with the help of someone who gets it.

Some of the ailments, like idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, are usually resolved on their own, but others require treatment.

If altered bits of genetic material could be picked up in a patient’s bloodstream, they would serve as a direct and sensitive marker of cancer.

Using their computers, travelers will be able to donate $2 when making reservations on some Internet travel sites.

Researchers have tested the Sensecam, which contains a digital camera and an accelerometer, as an aid to people with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders.

A National Sleep Foundation report on ethnic groups’ habits found responses on tiredness and sex were similar for most groups.

Most reported vaccinating their children, but more than half said they were concerned about adverse effects.

A new study found that older people hospitalized for a critical condition had a statistically significant drop in scores on cognitive tests when compared with people who had not been hospitalized.

In 1899, two Swiss researchers discovered that an irregular heartbeat could be stopped by shocking the heart.