Weight management can be difficult at any age. It is important to achieve and maintain an ideal weight even as we age because life expectancy can decrease with excess weight.

Treatment for all kinds of cancers can have many side effects, including nausea, anxiety, liver problems and lung disease. Now it is also reported that more than half of cancer patients suffer insomnia.

After a host of scientific studies linking low levels of vitamin D and various diseases, here comes a study that suggests just the opposite. But maybe not. Don't you just love conflicting health news?

Having low levels of vitamin D has been associated with a host of health problems. Researchers now believe this deficiency could have a life-long impact on girls.

For years, controversy has swelled around the safety of using a common technique to determine if head and neck melanoma has spread. A recently published study finds that sentinel node biopsies are both safe and useful.

When you have cancer, suddenly you lose a feeling of control about your life - and your future. One thing you can control, though, is how you talk with friends and family about what you're facing.

"Cure" isn't a word that's used very often in the cancer field. Still, a 20-year-in-the-making breakthrough could make that word more common among oncologists .

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Bob Marley knew that to be true. And so do researchers who are finding that music soothes cancer patients on many levels.

Bronze, golden skin is part of the definition of American beauty. Many people have resorted to tanning beds, which seems to be accompanied by addiction and skin cancer. Researchers have found why tanners can’t stop tanning.