The omnipresent virus associated with cervical, vaginal and throat cancers might also raise the risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma, which is the second most widespread kind of skin cancer, a new study has suggested.

One in five high school going students in the U. S. has still not stopped smoking, and the rate of decline in smoking has seen a downward trend, according to a new report that released on Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Johnson & Johnson offered added details on Friday in regard to its two most recent recalls of Tylenol and other over-the-counter drugs, stating about the actions on Thursday and June 15 that it involved a total of around 3 million bottles of the medicines.

Obesity is a chief contributor of acid reflux disease in adults, and it seems that the same is applicable in kids.

Obese kids had a 30% to 40% advanced risk of having acid reflux disease than children with normal weight, a new study carried out by researchers with the health management group, Kaiser Permanente, established.

The quality of a pivotal clinical trial carried by GlaxoSmithKline to help the trend of continued use of its troubled diabetes drug, Avandia, has been criticized by officers at the US Food & Drug Administration.

BBC news submitted a report which established that having depression might raise the risk of developing dementia in the later parts of life by almost two times.

It revealed this after carrying out a 17-year study on around 1,000 elderly people and found that 22% of those who were experiencing depression at the initial periods developed dementia, in contrast to 17% of those who were not experiencing depression.