Men: Listen to your wives! It could save your life.

Overcrowding and long waits in emergency rooms lead to more patients dying or needing further hospital treatment, researchers have found.

Now, we don't really think the world will end tomorrow. On the other hand, you never do know when disaster will strike. So, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out yesterday, it does make sense to plan for the worst, whether from zombies, hurricanes, or nuclear emergencies. That means knowing the needed steps to take, practicing with your family, creating a communication plan, stocking supplies, and being ready to act.

Strokes frequently occur during sleep, undermining the ability of clot-busting drugs to minimize damage, suggests a large study being published tomorrow in the journal Neurology. And that makes stroke prevention more important than ever.

More than 3 million U.S. adults and children went to emergency rooms for headaches or migraines in 2008, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Roughly 81,000 of those were admitted to the hospital for treatment.

If you own a first-aid kit made by Atwater Carey, be careful. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that the disinfecting iodine swabs included in certain kits might actually cause life-threatening infections.

Nearly 1.9 million people in U.S. hospitals had drug side effects or errors in 2008, up from 1.2 million in 2004, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Nearly 56,000 of these people died—an 11 percent increase from four years earlier.

Radiation from damaged nuclear power plants in Japan has now been carried by air currents as far as the East Coast of the U.S., and radioactive isotopes has been detected in milk and spinach from farms within about 100...

Source: New York Times Radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan could reach the Aleutian Islands later today and California tomorrow, according to a simulated model from the United Nations reported on by the New York Times. (See...

As the drama over Japan's earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant unfolds, many in the U.S. are worried about the risk of radiation exposure—and causing a shortage of a radiation prophylactic: potassium-iodide pills. The U.S. government is currently debating whether the...

It’s still unknown whether a partial or complete meltdown of several nuclear reactors in Japan, caused by last weekend’s earthquake and tsunami, would pose any health risks to people in Hawaii or on the West Coast of the U.S....

Older stroke victims who experience atrial fibrillation, a kind of irregular heartbeat, are about twice as likely to develop dementia as others who've had a stroke, according to an analysis out this week in Neurology. The analysis combined the...

Despite guidelines cautioning against the overuse of imaging tests for lower back pain, a third of the 2.5 million people in the U.S. who visit an emergency room each year with the problem get an X-ray, and nearly 10...

Sports are second only to car accidents as theleading cause of brain injury in 15- to 24-year-olds. This past week I had half a dozen calls from parents and coaches requesting that I see high school and college athletes...

Back in my Girl Scout days, I spent some happy evenings learning how to give mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions to our resuscitation dummy, Fred, to earn my First Aid badge. At the time it seemed straightforward, yet I’m glad I’ve...