Allergies, infections, acid reflux, smoking, and exposure to environmental irritants can cause extra mucus in your throat. Home remedies like drinking more fluids, avoiding irritants like smoke, and using a humidifier may help reduce excess throat mucus.

So-called ‘Blue Zone’ communities are famous for their daily glass of wine

A study suggests sugar may increase your dementia risk, particularly in people with certain genetic profiles. Find out more about this study.

A large analysis found that voice disorders are linked to a risk of cognitive decline — and they’re more common than you might assume.

Sex addiction involves sexual thoughts and behaviors that feel beyond a person’s control and cause significant distress or problems. Symptoms may include obsessive thoughts about sex, trouble controlling sexual activity, guilt, shame, anxiety, or depression.

These gentle, playful pups are known for getting along well with kids.

Gastroenterologists say this simple dietary change can help relieve constipation naturally, thanks to its fiber and gut-friendly compounds.

If you’re working out and eating clean, but not seeing results, here’s what experts say you need to know.

One out of every $10 spent on cancer treatments in Canada goes towards Keytruda. Experts warn that something has to give.

These pups are known for energy, good health and years of companionship.

Unless you are dirty, sweaty or smelly, overshowering can be damaging to your skin, experts say. And long, hot showers are the worst

The pioneering Toronto surgeon‘s team is edging ever closer to being able to repair a patient’s own lungs inside their body

It's probably impossible to know exactly what your dog is thinking. But a few years ago, Gregory berns, a neuroscientist at Emory university, decided he wanted to try and find out anyway.

If you want to be as attractive as Tom Cruise or Taylor Swift, cancel the glamourous makeover and focus instead on your behaviour. Fans and interviewers alike have described their remarkable charisma. Chatty, smiley and responsive, it's as if Cruise and Swift are truly interested and fully present in every social setting they’re in. This chimes with the psychological literature. Looks can, of course, be a magnet at first, but the more you interact with someone and get to know them, the more it’s

Thousands were sickened in the outbreak tied back to iceberg lettuce sold in grocery stores and eateries.

Too much light exposure during sleep may lead to potentially harmful changes in the structure and function of the heart, a new study suggests.

Lucid dreams, when a person is aware they're dreaming and can often control them, could be induced in people who rarely experience them

An eight-week course of self-administered laughter therapy helped a small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease breathe more easily

Many people who have chemotherapy develop numbness, tingling and pain in their hands and feet, which can disrupt their treatment. But research suggests that psilocybin, the psychedelic in magic mushrooms, could prevent this side effect

A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while waiting for a suitable human donor's kidney to become available