A new study has found that vitamin D can counter the effects of Crohn's disease.

Researchers found that vitamin D acts directly on the beta defensin 2 gene, which encodes an antimicrobial peptide, and the NOD2 gene that alerts cells to the presence ...

The CDC has reported that, in March 2009, several people accidentally received blood products with yellow fever vaccine in them. The investigation documents evidence for transmission of vaccine virus through infected blood products.

The mistake was ...

Many Mesoamerican farmers here are starting to give up on organic coffee. The premium price that it used to fetch is disappearing.

From Mexico to Costa Rica, at least 10 percent of growers have returned to chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the ...

Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become thinner, more porous and break more easily. Osteopenia is different from osteoporosis -- it is a slight thinning of bones that occurs naturally as women get older and typically doesn't result in ...

Rhonda Renata is in no doubt about what caused the death of her 18-year-old daughter Jasmine, who died last September, apparently in her sleep.

It was six months since she had received the last of the three injections of the cervical cancer vaccine ...

Almost nine in 10 people are not aware of the risks of carrying extra fat around their waistline.

A survey of 12,000 Europeans found most had no idea that a thick waist was a sign of a build-up of a dangerous type of fat around the internal organs. ...

By Dr. Mercola

Continued from Part 1.

What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food?

And what if you discovered that this chemical imposter was responsible for your insulin ...

President Obama promised public, televised healthcare negotiations.  But now that those negotiations are actually occurring, they are behind closed doors, and television cameras are banned from the room.

By Dr. Mercola

Continued from Part 1.

What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food?

And what if you discovered that this chemical imposter was responsible for your insulin ...

You have had a long-standing deal with biology: whatever choices you make during your life might ruin your short-term memory or make you gain weight t or could hasten death, but they won't change your genes — your actual DNA.

The answer lies ...