The “car key conversation” is a dreaded milestone of eldercare and one that adult children dread most.

European Union residents would be able to receive most health care treatment anywhere in the 27-nation bloc without prior authorization under a proposal published on Wednesday.

A woman’s desire to avoid life in a nursing home forces a country to confront the thorny ethical issue and casts an assisted-suicide advocate as Germany’s Jack Kevorkian.

Technogym, an exercise equipment maker, is expanding its reach to countries with few health clubs, in a strategy to survive an economic downturn in the United States.

Phit — short for pelvic health integrated techniques — is the first medical spa in Manhattan wholly dedicated to strengthening and grooming a woman’s genital area.

No matter how much you train in the heat, it will never be easy, athletes and researchers say.

Diabetes drugs would be subject to more stringent safety standards under recommendations made Wednesday by a government panel.

The government is about to start testing numerous other types of fresh produce in the hunt for the source of the nation’s record salmonella outbreak.

The Agriculture Department is warning that the beef supplied by a Nebraska company may be responsible for at least 40 illnesses.

The lesson we took from my sister’s eczema is tried and true: making the effort to understand a medical condition and the details of how best to treat it, really pays off.

As the number of uses for Botox grows, it is no surprise that reports of unwanted effects are growing, too.

Minor neurological weaknesses may offer doctors an opportunity to see which older patients are at higher risk of illness and begin treatment, researchers have found.

High levels of good cholesterol may also help prevent a decline in memory, a new study says.

“A Community Guide to Environmental Health,” took eight years and $1.6 million to put together, according to its authors.

Food poisoning typically spikes this time of year, and one popular picnic ingredient that always attracts suspicion is mayonnaise.

The last two months have been one of the deadliest periods in the history of the fast-growing industry of medical helicopters.

How does dried fruit compare with fresh fruit in nutritional value?

Improvements in scanning techniques are making it easier to see microbleeds in the brain, but it’s unclear what should be done about them.

The World Health Organization said that the new test promises to help significantly improve treatment and prevent the spread of the airborne infection.

Can hookworms protect against allergies? In a quest to find out, David Pritchard infected himself.