If you are curious as to what your risks are of dying next year or from a certain disease, well there is now a website for you. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has developed a website that will give you information on your death risk rankings based on the information you select to do the comparison on. Called the death calculator, the program behind the website gives you the odds of you dying within a certain period or what the death risk percentage is of you dying of a certain cause.

Researchers expect 37,000 cases of thyroid cancer this year, a significant increase from the 18,000 cases in 2000.

Over half of adults suffer from insomnia, a sleep disorder, and more than 93 percent of sufferers say the disorder affects their work the next day. Now, researchers may be a step closer to treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders.

Researchers report that aspirin may not only reduce the risk of getting colorectal cancer, but it also could lower the odds of dying once you have it. According to the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance, hundreds of thousands of Americans who are diagnosed annually with cancer, do survive.

Maybe Congress should scrap their efforts at health care and health insurance reform. Old fashioned bartering for health care is growing in popularity among Americans. Take note President Obama.

Who will be the first to get the swine flu vaccine once it becomes available this fall? About 159 million people.

With the world facing its first pandemic in 40 years, it’s easy to get caught up in the frenzy and growing concern about the swine flu. Here are 5 myths.

Over five million Americans and an estimated 26 million people globally live with the fatal brain disease known as Alzheimer’s. According to leading health and insurance experts the disease progressively destroys brain cells and victims suffer from memory problems and difficulties with thought processes.

Melbourne, Australia May 5, 2009 Scientists, universities and community organisations should refuse to take funding from Drinkwise, an organisation established and controlled by the alcohol industry, according to Deakin University’s Dr. Peter Miller and Dr. Kypros Kypri from the University of Newcastle in a commentary published today in the May issue of the international scientific journal, Drug and Alcohol Review.

Stephen Hawking, renowned theoretical physicist, mathematician, and author of the best-seller "A Brief History of Time," has been hospitalized at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and is said to be "very ill."

Alli, a half-strength version of the prescription-only Xenical, which interferes with the body's ability to digest fat, and Appesat, a seaweed extract, which is said to swell up and trick the brain into thinking the stomach is full, will cost £1-a-day and £29.95 for 50 capsules respectively.