One-quarter of American adults received treatment for high blood pressure in 2008, according to new research from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Americans are popping more antidepressants than ever before to deal with everyday stress, and non-psychiatrists are increasingly willing to prescribe the drugs to patients with no mental health diagnosis, a new study finds.

Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago.

More Americans are getting total knee replacements than ever before, according to the first national estimate of the procedure’s frequency. In 2009 alone, the number of surgeries topped 600,000, twice the number of procedures of the past decade.

So much for being safer. An electronic cigarette blew up in a Florida man's face, leaving him in a hospital with severe burns, missing his front teeth and a chunk of his tongue.

Malnutrition causes deaths of five children around the world per minute, according to a report released Wednesday. And almost half a billion children are at risk for permanent damage over the next 15 years, according to report.

Several orange juice shipments have been detained by the Food and Drug Administration after traces of illegal fungicide were detected.

After three decades of climbing steadily, obesity rates appear to be stabilizing nationwide. Increases among certain demographic groups are still evident, however.

There are government and business-based programs to help smokers quit. But much of the funding goes unspent, and worker efforts can be tied to insurance costs.

Experts weigh in as another large health care provider decides to hire nonsmokers only