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Although birth control pills carry some increased risk of blood clots, doctors have been debating whether the newest-generation pills are any safer than their predecessors.

Hundreds of thousands of people survive strokes each year only to find they have trouble walking, talking or working, dependent on others for the most basic tasks.

Accidents, burns and surgery all leave their marks on skin. For years, most people have had little recourse but to suffer these scars or resort to expensive medical procedures to minimise them.

Although casual dress has become the fashion rule in many workplaces, we prefer our doctors to be dressed neatly and formally in the old-fashioned white lab coat. So says Dr Lawrence J. Brandt, a medical-school lecturer who has become a 21st-century one-man band for the return of dress codes.

Rheumatoid arthritis can double and even triple a woman's risk of suffering a heart attack, a new study has found, suggesting that women with the painful autoimmune disorder should take aggressive measures to prevent heart disease.

Many cases of heart failure are the product of our successes, attributable to medications and procedures such as angioplasty that have allowed more people to survive heart attacks and heart disease.

Today's skin-care products do more than just clean and moisturise: They promise smoother, clearer, more radiant skin with fewer fine lines and wrinkles. But there's a downside to some of the ingredients.

Stressed kids are more likely to go for high-fat foods and snacks than their placid peers, regardless of whether they respond to anxiety by eating more or less than usual.

Applying sunscreen every day, rain or shine, is a more effective way of protecting against skin cancer than slathering it on occasionally when heading to the beach, park or swimming pool, a new study has found.

A small child's fall or head injury can be alarming, especially if the child loses consciousness. Sometimes a CT scan is needed to rule out a skull fracture or bleeding inside the brain.