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Monkey Business Images/shutterstock.com Exercise is among the most critical factors in reducing your risk of dementia, a new study finds. To cut your risk of developing dementia by as much as two thirds, a new study suggests following five healthy lifestyle rules. Most important is getting regular exercise, followed by not smoking, maintaining a low body weight, eating a healthy ...

MICHAEL GIBSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS Do ‘Mean Girls’ get a boost in school? High school students who were rated more attractive than average tended to have better grades than their peers, researchers found. Being hot in high school may be the equivalent of extra credit. High school boys and girls considered more attractive than the bulk of their classmates had higher GPAs ...

BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) founder Jean-Claude Mas was sentenced to four years behind bars, and his bankrupt company was ordered to pay up to 40 million euros ($ 55 million) in damages. MARSEILLE, France — A disgraced French businessman was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for filling tens of thousands ...

Courtesy of Gilead Gilead Science’s Sovaldi (Sofosbuvir) has received government approval for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, meaning some patients will not have to deal with the severe side effects of the injected drug interferon. U.S. regulators on Friday approved Gilead Sciences Inc’s Sovaldi, also known as sofosbuvir, as a potential cure for chronic infection with the liver-destroying hepatitis ...

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer. A few patients with one type of leukemia were given this one-time, experimental therapy several years ago and some remain cancer-free today. Now, at ...

AVAVA/Getty Images/iStockphoto Children aged 3 and under should always be supervised while sitting in a high chair, said Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The number of toddlers taken to hospital emergency rooms with high chair-related injuries jumped 22% between 2003 and 2010, according to a new study ...

Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News Susan Scott is shopping for an affordable health care plan under Obamacare. Picking a healthcare plan is rarely a picnic. Susan Scott, a freelance greeting card and textile designer, has spent hours checking out new plans available through New York State’s healthcare exchange, comparing copays, deductibles and premiums. But Scott, 59, has found the work ...

Scott Campbell/Getty Images Susan Boyle in her dressing room at the Music Hall on July 4 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Susan Boyle has revealed she is suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. The Scottish singer who shot to worldwide fame in 2009 with her jaw-dropping performance on “Britain’s Got Talent” was diagnosed last year but has now decided to ...

David Becker/Getty Images for The Licensing E Tracy Anderson, shown here at the Licensing Expo 2013 in Las Vegas in June, in not a fan of juice cleanses. Planning on doing a post-holiday juice cleanse to counter days of indulgence? One celebrity trainer doesn’t think that’s a good idea. Tracy Anderson, who is perhaps best known for transforming the bodies ...

Lai Seng Sin/AP Timothy Henrich of the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston announced that HIV has returned in two patients researchers hoped were permanently cleared of the virus. The two men had received bone marrow transplants to treat blood cancer, which also seemed to wipe HIV from their systems. Two men whom Boston researchers reported in July had ...