Marijuana is illegal for any reason under federal law, but states have boldly experimented with allowing its use anyway, starting with California 20 years ago.Some states have made the drug legal for medical purposes; others have removed jail sentences for carrying small amounts; and…

Swimming: If you are at the beach or the pool, your hair can get damaged from chlorine and salt water. The colour gets stripped off, hair gets dry and frizzy, causing split ends. Wet your hair and apply a good conditioner before jumping in. Always…

Hang around serious runners enough and you'll pick up a few tidbits—how to pace yourself, which routes have the cleanest bathrooms, what to wear when the weather is changing more rapidly than a Twitter feed. We asked coaches, trainers, nutritionists and veteran runners to share…

Swapping soda for a pressed juice. Choosing whole-wheat toast over white bread. Grabbing a fiber bar before a tough workout. These seem like smart, healthy choices, right? Then why is it that the fiber bar leaves you with a bloated midsection or the juice (yes,…

A Mediterranean diet yields a number of health benefits, and it's been recently confirmed to be the best for weight loss. Based on five Harvard Medical studies, this diet is the most effective for shedding pounds in comparison to a low-fat diet, a low-carb diet,…

Exposure to air pollution for just a month or two may still be enough to increase the risk of developing diabetes, especially for obese people, a recent U.S. study suggests.Researchers studied more than 1,000 Mexican-Americans living in southern California and found short-term exposure to…

An English physician made more than just a teeny weiny error — performing a vasectomy on the wrong patient, a man who was complaining about long wait times at the doctor’s office.Dr. Ninikram Vaswani, a urologist at the Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool, is facing…

Although human papillomavirus vaccination rates are relatively low in the US, this the first time a study has shown evidence of the effect on women in their 20sHuman papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence is down 64% since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended…

South Africa confirmed its first case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in a Columbian man, health authorities said.The virus, which is causing international alarm after spreading through much of the Americas, was detected in the man on his visit to Johannesburg, Health Minister Aaron…

It's not too strange to hear about a diabetic undergoing a pancreas transplant. What's unusual here is that the transplant was necessitated by the UK patient's extreme fear of needles—the first time that's happened anywhere in the world, the BBC reports.Sue York, 55, has…