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Where and how your body stores fat – specifically fat stored in the abdomen around the organs – could be the key to your type 2 diabetes risk. Read More

A new study found that those who reported eating more low-fat yogurt were 31 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who ate less. Read More

Living without stress may seem nearly impossible these days. Technology beckons you at all hours. Politics are polarizing. Costs are rising. But it is vital to find some balance in your life. Read More

It turns out you simply cannot 'catch up' on your sleep, say a bunch of scientists. Read More

Men treated for prostate cancer - either with surgery or radiation - could benefit from taking aspirin regularly, U.S. researchers suggest. Read More

Dallas scientist Tony Wood, struck with the fatal disease ALS, is conducting a one-man research trial, working with a UT Southwestern Medical Center neurologist and a product he himself made possible. Read More

No one who lived through Sept. 11, 2001, will forget it: the crashing planes, black plumes of smoke, the terror, the last frantic phone calls. Read More

For the study, researchers at the UT Southwestern and the Cooper Institute in Dallas gathered medical records for 18,670 middle-aged men and women who’d visited the Cooper Clinic (the medical arm of the Cooper Institute) for a checkup beginning in 1970. Read More

People who have late-day prostate and kidney surgeries fare just as well as those who have their procedures earlier in the day, according to a new study. Read More

Total joint replacement of knees and hips in the United States is a procedure of last resort that, remarkably, has also become quite routine, and it is increasingly being performed on younger people. Read More