UM Study: Getting Sick From Being Too Clean?
A new University of Michigan study dishes the dirt on whether being too clean can actually make you sick.
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A new University of Michigan study dishes the dirt on whether being too clean can actually make you sick.
Thanksgiving is the most gut-busting day of the year. Many people overdo it, but on "The Early Show", registered dietician Keri Glassman, a contributing editor for Women's Health magazine, showed how you can make the right choices, with advice on what to skip, and what to savor at your Thanksgiving meal.
More turkey, less white bread and mashed potatoes. Just in time for holiday feasting, a large study found that diets higher in protein and lower in carbohydrates can help overweight adults who managed to drop some weight keep it off.
Wayne State University physiology assistant professor Patrick J. Mueller has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how alterations in the brain caused by inactivity may contribute to an individual's risk of cardiovascular disease.
Health care giant Johnson & Johnson is announcing another product recall, this one involving some Children's Benadryl Allergy Fastmelt Tablets and Junior Strength Motrin Caplets.
A new government report on sexually spread diseases shows gonorrhea in the United States has dipped to the lowest rate ever recorded.
Think you know it all when it comes to sex? Well, a majority of the baby boomers think they've learned just about all there is to know on the subject — and more women than men are confident of their knowledge — according to a new Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is an irreversible disorder in children that affects the learning centers of the brain and results in lifetime cognitive and behavioral impairment.
Patients undergoing plastic or reconstructive surgery should receive a risk assessment before their procedure to predict whether they'll develop potentially fatal blood clots in the legs or lungs, according to research at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Krunchers! Inc. are recalling all Jays Original Potato Chips because the bags don't show a milk allergen warning.
The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the market under pressure from public health officials who say it causes potentially deadly heart rhythms.
Seniors should keep cholesterol is check for reasons other than what might be supposed.
The University of Michigan Thursday announced a three-year, $1.4 million federal grant to establish the UM School of Public Health Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center, and a $2.25 million dollar federal grant to expand its preventive medicine residency to help combat an estimated 35,000 shortfall of primary care physicians expected within 10 years.
Pontiac-based 3-D Experiential Training Co. said Beaumont Hospital Troy is among the first health care institutions in the country to use its three-dimensional immersive training technology.
An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes.