Wellness

The nation's largest cancer center is launching a massive "moonshot" effort against eight specific forms of the disease, similar to the all-out push for space exploration 50 years ago.

Teenage girls may prefer the pill, the patch or even wishful thinking, but their doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants long-lasting and more effective birth control that you don't have to remember to use every time, the nation's leading gynecologists group said Thursday.

A new study shows low-income smokers in New York spend 25 percent of their income on cigarettes, a finding that led a smokers' rights advocate to say it proves high taxes are regressive and ineffective.

The Food and Drug Administration may consider new standards for the levels of arsenic in rice as consumer groups are calling for federal guidance on how much of the carcinogen can be present in food.

A group campaigning against obesity predicts that by 2030 more than half the people in 39 states will be obese not merely overweight, but obese.

Call it a case of reality catching up to the hype: Consumer-driven health plans have leapfrogged HMOs to become the second most popular employer-provided plan design.