Next time you go for a checkup, don't be surprised if your doctor gets on your case about your weight.

Health officials say they have the first evidence of a national decline in childhood obesity.

Another reason to eat breakfast: Skipping it may increase your chances of a heart attack.

A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half in the first study to measure the shot's impact since it came on the market. The results impressed health experts and a top government top health official called them striking.

The American Cancer Society one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups is 100 years old this week.

U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds.

Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.

A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain.