By Sally Wadyka

Most of us have experienced those maddening midnight moments when, no matter how tired we are, we either can’t fall asleep, can’t stay asleep or our sleep is of such poor quality it feels as if we were awake. For anyone who has tossed and turned at night, here’s some [...]

By Sean Kelley

Alcohol, a drug that is a major cause of accidents, may actually protect the brain from a life-threatening injury when an accident does occur, according to a study published this week in Archives of Surgery.

Half of the patients hospitalized for trauma are intoxicated at the time of injury.

By Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent

(CNN) — At the beginning of the school year, a couple of hundred parents, myself included, gathered in the middle school lounge for the principal’s back-to-school speech. The chatting hushed as the principal walked from the back of the room to the podium. As she [...]

By Olivia Sterns
For CNN

LONDON, England – A new drug for melanoma has been shown to rapidly shrink malignant tumors in an early trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York.

New drug inhibits BRAF, the main driver of mutation in over 50 percent of melanomas.