Hundreds of people across the United States have developed health problems that researchers have tied to zinc in denture adhesives. The problems surfaced after what has been called long-term, excessive use -- two or more tubes a week for years.  Full story »

Plant oils have been used for their healing properties for centuries and are a central part of traditional medicine systems in China and India. Aromatherapists maintain that essential oils exert their effects because their odors are transmitted directly to two parts of the brain most intimately tied to emotion and long-term memory.  Full story »

Traditionally our approach to health care has been to pay a lot of money for unknown value. This arrangement is how markets are supposed to behave. Rewards go to those who offer the best service or product at the best price.  Full story »

The 375,000-square-foot, 120-bed hospital -- as yet unnamed -- will put all of UH's cancer services in a single location, concentrating departments and services that are spread out among numerous buildings at the hospital's main campus at University Circle. Full story »

Shingles vaccine important but unaffordable: Adults over age 60 at risk of disease, but find the medicine out of their reach. Full story »

Get your finances in order before you become seriously ill or injured and you’ll save yourself trouble — and money. Here's some expert advice. Full story »

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The Buteyko theory turns conventional thinking about asthma on its head, so the method — taking fewer small, measured, shallow breaths through the nose — seems counterintuitive. Yet practitioners swear it works. Full story »

Whenever she needs material for the VNA hospice volunteers who sew hospital gowns for patients, she knows she can get it by posting just two words to the internet: "Got Fabric?" Full story »

While the standard treatment for depression, a mix of psychotherapy and pharmaceuticals, helps most people facing the illness, holistic and integrative medicine practitioners have been offering a wide variety of other techniques to treat depression -- from meditation and hypnosis to energy medicine -- for years. Full story »

The free classes, which are live and interactive, center on up-to-the minute ethical and moral issues on such topics as the use of animals for food and research, euthanasia, abortion, stem-cell research, cloning and the obligation to help the poor.  Full story »

The state has made budget cuts, but Passport, a Medicaid-supported service that sends aides into the homes of the elderly to help them remain independent, and a free Medicaid program that helps pay for care in an assisted living center are both still accepting clients.  Full story »

Oral sex is far from funny when you consider the devastation it can cause. And it points directly to how important it is for parents to talk to their children about sex, as embarrassing and as uncomfortable as it might be. Full story »

Recognized as a valid practice for pain and anxiety relief by the American Medical Association as early as 1958, hypnosis today it is well-accepted by mainstream medicine but is usually considered an add-on, rather than a stand-alone, therapy.  Full story »

The reports, which are records that have always been available to the public in paper form, include details of violations that include food handling, serving, preparation and storage. They can range from inadequate temperature control to improper labeling to cross-contamination of foods. Full story »