Health

If you don’t have many friends, a new study says maybe your brain just isn’t big enough to attract them.

If you’re concerned about your heart health, you might want to consider having fish for dinner. New research finds older adults with the highest blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids — most commonly found in fish — are less likely to later develop an irregular heartbeat than their peers with the lowest amounts.

Drug company Pfizer Inc., is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills, after finding an error on the packaging.

Treating prostate cancer with radioactive seeds may have fewer side-effects than surgery or a beam of high-energy radiation.

During the month of February, the Missoula Health Department is providing radon test kits at the reduced price of six dollars per kit. Environmental Health Specialist for the Missoula County Health Department explains where radon comes from and why homeowners should be concerned.

A new study published in the journal Obesity suggests excess weight and physical pain often go hand-in-hand — even if the overweight person is otherwise in good health.

Researchers have discovered a link between heart failure (HF) and a decline in people’s mental processes and loss of grey matter in the brain.

Despite previous reports, a recently released study finds a glass of red wine a day might not defend against heart disease.

Scientists searching for a vaccine to prevent infection with two types of herpes simplex, or H.S.V., have run into a roadblock: in results published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, a new vaccine that was previously thought to protect uninfected women from genital herpes has now been found useless.

There has been a steady drop in in the cancer death rate in the United States, but obesity related cancers, such as kidney cancer, is on the rise, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report.