Wellness

More people pull the night shift. Teens text past midnight and stumble to class at dawn. Travelers pack red-eye flights.

Express Scripts aims to help patients stay on their meds with a product that predicts who will stop taking prescriptions before the person actually does it.

Cases of dementia and the heavy social and financial burdens associated with them are set to soar in the coming decades as life expectancy and medical care improve in poorer countries, the World Health Organization says.

Public health groups in Rhode Island urged lawmakers Tuesday to levy a tax on sugary drinks, but the idea fell flat with beverage industry leaders who said their products shouldn't be singled out in the fight against obesity.

Teen births fell again in the United States in 2010 with the highest rate once more in Mississippi, according to a new government report.

It almost sounds like a bad southerner joke: Did you hear the one about the hospital that wouldnt hire fat people? Theyre worried theyd scare the old people to death.

Obesity during pregnancy may increase chances for having a child with autism, provocative new research suggests.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appeared outside the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices heard arguments over whether President Barack Obama's overhaul of the nation's health care system is constitutional.