Article By: Cynthia Ross Cravit

We all know that good oral hygiene is important for the pearly whites. But now there's even more reason to floss: it may help to ward off a deadly cancer.

Gum disease and other dental difficulties have already been linked with an increased risk in heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, diabetes and pre-term and low birth-weight babies. And now researchers have found a connection between flossing and pancreatic cancer.

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What if science made a pill to protect us from addiction — keeping us from smoking cigarettes, getting fat or abusing drugs and alcohol? According to encouraging results from several lines of study, it seems that day may be closer than we thought. Researchers in labs around the world are now developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Within "one to 10 years, and closer to one year,"...

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magine a chip, strategically placed in the brain, that could prevent epileptic seizures or allow someone who has lost a limb to control an artificial arm just by thinking about it.

It may sound like science fiction, but University of Florida researchers are developing devices that can interpret signals in the brain and stimulate neurons to perform correctly, advances that might someday make it possible for a tiny computer to fix diseases or even allow a paralyzed person to control a...

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A new study points to another benefit of the childhood vaccination for the rubella virus. Researchers say the vaccine may have also nearly obliterated an inflammatory eye disease from the U.S. population.

Doctors don't know what causes fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis (FHI), an untreatable chronic inflammatory eye disease that can lead to blindness. Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago now have a better idea of what could prevent it.

Though the...

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A new report reveals it's unlikely the goal set to reduce worldwide mortality of children younger than 5 will be met. The authors of the report also report the international community is no better at reducing child mortality than it was 30 years ago.

Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle analyzed data and used computer modeling to predict child mortality rates for 172 countries through the year 2015. Results show, though child death rates are decreasing, the progress...

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