Here's a couch potato's dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat?

Life-saving surgery may not induce some patients with alcoholic liver disease to stop drinking, researchers report.

A woman's risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a collection of risks for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, appears to rise with the transition to menopause, usually in her 40s.

Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig's disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops.

Will you spend the rest of your life paying for therapy if your kid walks in on you having sex? Is the pill to blame for one wife’s low libido? And when Viagra doesn’t work, what does?