Health officials say it is possible to contract MRSA at a gym, but the risk is low.

  There is no evidence to conclude that natural or organic cosmetics produce extra healthy skin.

  FOR many customers in the Whole Foods Market on the Lower East Side last Friday night, just spotting the word ?organic?on recycled packaging would have been reason enough to grab a bottle of moisturizer. But not Erin Schrode, 16, a founder of Teens for Safe Cosmetics, a nonprofit in Marin County, Calif. She was there to play host to a rally-cum-marketing-event she had organized with her mother, Judi Shils, the group?s executive director.

  Pharmaceutical ingredients exported from China are often made by companies that are neither certified nor inspected by Chinese drug regulators.

  The Office for National Statistics in Britain disputed Rudolph W. Giuliani?s assertion that the chances of surviving prostate cancer in England is only 44 percent.

  Twenty-one states will run out of money for children?s health insurance in the coming year, a new federal study says.

  New research suggests that in mice, a simple treatment that does not involve drugs appears to be directing cells to turn into bone instead of fat.

  Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were ?closely examining?why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.

  A large review of studies suggests that intentionally breaking the water has no effect in reducing the labor time or assuring the baby?s health.

  The idea that emotional well-being can affect the course of disease finds no support in a new report on head and neck cancer.

  New research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain.

  By all evidence, outrageously bad dreams are a universal human experience.

  A low-fat diet only conferred the benefit if it lasts for many years, a new study indicates.

  Most athletes will have back trouble sooner or later ?if they?re not suffering already. Here?s what to do about it.