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There's yet another reason to ditch the sweet stuff: scientists have found Alzheimer’s disease could be caused by excess sugar.

Little Tikes is recalling more than 500,000 toddler swings after reports of the product breaking and posing a fall hazard.

It seems the old saying “my back is killing me” may not be an exaggeration after all.

Europeans who came to the Americas inadvertently introduced germs — including smallpox and measles — that killed upward of 90 percent of the native people.

Kelly Ripa made headlines earlier this month after saying on “Live with Kelly” that her husband, Mark Consuelos, is “mean” after sex, and while she backpedaled Wednesday by clarifying he is simply “disinterested” afterward, the damage had already been done.

A small study in 16 people with severe anorexia has found that implanting stimulation electrodes into the brains of patients could ease their anxiety and help them gain weight.

As America's addiction to painkillers reaches epidemic levels, the drugs are starting to affect San Diego's smallest and most vulnerable residents -- newborns.

Every 25 minutes, a drug-addicted baby is born in the U.S. To try to protect the youngest victims of the nation's opioid epidemic, Tennessee enacted a law that sent new mothers to jail for substance abuse, while other states employ existing child-abuse laws to punish prenatal drug users and remove their children.

The number of deadly heroin overdoses in the United States more than quadrupled from 2010 to 2015, a federal agency said on Friday, as the price of the drug dropped and its potency increased.

Not all sleeping pills are created equal, and not all of them work for every type of sleep problem.

If you want to lose weight give her no-B.S. rules a try.

Your boss just left you a ranting voicemail for the second time this week.

You’re laying off the margaritas.

Could your CrossFit workout take a toll on your sex life?

If you’re a “constant checker” of your social media, email and texts, you might be seriously harming your mental health.

Scientists have coaxed sound-sensing cells in the ear, called "hair cells," to grow from stem cells.

If you already consider fruits and veggies a central part of your diet, consider eating even more.

If you don’t keep your stress levels in check, it may be tougher to stay slim.

An experimental Merck & Co drug succeeded in preventing clinically serious cytomegalovirus (CMV) following bone marrow transplant and was associated with a lower death rate compared with placebo in a late state study, the company said.

A woman has become a hero to singles everywhere after documenting her life as a “third wheel."