Gay or straight, the sexual orientation of adoptive parents does not have an impact on the emotional development of their children, according to a new study.
Alcohol abuse, obesity and depression seem to go hand in hand for many women, according to the first study to look at how the three relate to one another over time in young adults.
If you take antidepressants such as fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) early in your pregnancy, you may be doubling the risk that your newborn will be born with a heart defect, according to a new study.
Actress Mackenzie Phillips said in a memoir published on Wednesday that she had a decade-long incestuous affair with her father John Phillips, the late singer with 1960s band The Mamas &the Papas.
A common, nonmalignant tumor of the breast called ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS may need a name change because the word "carcinoma" scares so many women, a U.S. panel of experts said on Thursday.
Gay rights activists hoping to win back the right to marry in California submitted a ballot proposal on Thursday for the November 2010 election -- a date deep-pocketed advocates have said is too soon.
Pittsburgh is home to numerous Chinese-oriented groups and chapters, including the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, the Organization of Chinese-Americans, a Chinese restaurant association, four Chinese churches and several Chinese schools.
Now chinese parents tend to live separately from their married children. With a fast-aging population and the only-child generation entering the marriage and child-bearing age, the demand for domestic help has been increasing rapidly in recent years.
The villagers who make the best living tend to be entrepreneurs. Those who work in logistics or other small businesses can bring home 100,000 yuan in a good year.
Worries about the economy have led many American women to think twice about having a baby, a survey released on Wednesday found, with nearly half of those surveyed saying they want to delay pregnancy or limit the number of children they have.
Cookbook author Karen Berman is tackling two big challenges -- finding family activities that don't involve television and getting children to eat healthier food.
Younger white women with vitamin D deficiencies are about three times more likely to have high blood pressure in middle age than those with normal vitamin levels, according to a study released on Thursday.
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