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The Obama administration is pressuring the food industry to make foods from breads to sliced turkey less salty, proposing long-awaited sodium guidelines in an effort to prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart disease and stroke.
A woman visiting the United States gave birth to a baby at Hackensack University Medical Center Tuesday that has a Zika-related birth defect.
New research is warning about a possible link between a very common allergy medicine and dementia.
DHM, or dihydromyricetin, is a Chinese herb that's been shown to slow the intoxication of rats in studies conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Heimlich says it made him appreciate how wonderful it has been "to be able to save all those lives."
Federal health officials on Thursday approved an innovative new option for Americans struggling with addiction to heroin and painkillers.
New York City plans to start enforcing a first-of-its-kind requirement for chain restaurants to use icons to warn patrons of salty foods.
Vice President Joe Biden was at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Thursday as he is leading the Cancer Moonshot 2020 initiative.
Researchers have made a startling discovery after a person in the United States had been found to carrying a bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort for the first time.
It turns out the mucus membranes of the mouth are a really good way to show allergens to the immune system so it stops over reacting to things like pollen or mold.
County Executive Ed Mangano and County Health Commissioner Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein unveiled the initiative called the "Zika Action, Mosquito Trapping and Surveillance Plan."
Supporters say legalization could solve budget problems and make the state millions, but critics aren't buying it.
U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined health officials Sunday to ask for increased funding to prevent and treat the Zika virus.
The opioid addiction crisis is claiming lives around the country, and the Tri-State Area has been hit particularly hard.
The cocooning payoff actually comes at the end of an anti-gravity yoga class at Crunch Fitness. It's a series of yoga moves that uses the hammock as a support for someone's own body weight, letting that person completely surrender into each pose.
