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Aleksandr Markin/Shutterstock.com A new U.S. study finds that even short runs or walks go a long way toward reducing your risks of breast cancer. Here’s a good reason to go for a short walk or run today: While prior research has already found that regular exercise can reduce breast cancer risk by about 25 percent, a new study suggests that ...

Elizabeth Malby/AP A new study out of Minnesota found that many cases of food poisoning and bacterial illnesses caused by drinking raw milk are not reported. Raw milk can be one dangerous drink, according to researchers from the Minnesota Department of Health. Experts estimate that about one in six people who drink raw milk becomes sick, a new study revealed. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eugene Gurevich/Getty Images/Hemera/Getty Images/Hemera Will traffic jams be a thing of the past one day? Fewer people are driving to work, and many young professionals are choosing not to own a car at all, a new study says. Americans in most major U.S. urban areas are driving less, and in some cases a lot less, due to improvements in technology ...

hero30 /shutterstock.com Energy drinks appear to cause more forceful heart contractions, and those with irregular heartbeat may want to avoid them altogether, caution researchers behind a small German study that examined heart imaging of 17 people after they consumed one of the drinks. If you rely on energy drinks to give you a buzz, researchers are warning that all that ...

hero30 /shutterstock.com Energy drinks appear to cause more forceful heart contractions, and those with irregular heartbeat may want to avoid them altogether, caution researchers behind a small German study that examined heart imaging of 17 people after they consumed one of the drinks. If you rely on energy drinks to give you a buzz, researchers are warning that all that ...

Rahi/AP Research featured at the American Heart Association’s annual conference on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, showed that on average, children 9 to 17 take 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Above, boys participate in a 100-meter race  in Bangalore, India, in 2007.  Today’s kids can’t keep up with their parents. An analysis ...

It was 3 in the morning on a school night last week, and the party was raging at Marquee, one of the city’s hottest nightclubs. At 10 years, it’s also one of the city’s oldest. Marquee’s decade-long run at the top is so remarkable that a Harvard Business School professor has made a mini-specialty out of analyzing it, publishing two ...

Paul Harizan/Getty Images Doctors in surgery. There’s been a scary rise in the number of women and teen girls getting unnecessary labiaplasties, researchers said. A shocking number of teen girls and women are undergoing plastic surgery on their vaginas to replicate what they see in pornography, British researchers said. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reported a fivefold increase ...