(Debbie Clason/ Healthy Hearing) — Playing in the water can be fun for people of all ages. While summer is a great time to enjoy swimming to its fullest, all of the splashing around can occasionally lead to water getting trapped in your ears. Symptoms include a feeling of fullness in the ear canal and a sensation that water is jostling around  …

(Sam Blanchard/ The Daily Mail) — People whose relatives have had skin cancer may be more likely to get the illness themselves, according to a study.

Researchers suggest the genetic risk of the disease may be higher even if people have better sun-care habits than others in their family.

The risk of getting melanoma, the fifth most common  …

(Cody Cottier/ Discovery) — As I slept unaware beneath the stars one night in early July, what I can only assume to be a legion of mosquitoes declared war against my forehead.

I’ve been a mosquito magnet as long as I can remember, so I should have foreseen the itchy misery they would deliver upon my face. I offered them an exposed patch of flesh,  …

(Alexandra Hansen/The Conversation) — We humans need to exercise in order to stay healthy. Exercise protects against disease and early death, and keeps us mobile and able to perform daily tasks.

Walking is an easy, free and enjoyable form of exercise. But is a nice stroll enough to confer the life-saving benefits we know come from exercise?  …

(Zawn Villines/ Medical News Today) — Alcohol begins affecting a person’s brain as soon as it enters the bloodstream. In a healthy person, the liver quickly filters alcohol, helping the body get rid of the drug.

However, when a person drinks to excess, the liver cannot filter the alcohol fast enough, and this triggers immediate  …

(Ana Sandoiu/ Medical News Today) — New research examines the relationship between trends in physical activity levels over time and mortality risk among adults in middle age and older. The findings suggest that it is never too late to start exercising, as becoming more active may lengthen lifespan “regardless of past activity  …

(E.J. Mundell/ HealthDay) — Soon after a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer, drugs that lower levels of testosterone are often offered as treatment, since testosterone fuels the cancer’s growth.

But a major new study suggests that this approach might have an unwanted side effect: Higher odds for Alzheimer’s  …

(Conchita Margaret/ New York Daily News) — Don’t be fooled by the 100% fruit juice label on your next visit to the grocery store.

A new study conducted in France has recently discovered that even a small consumption — 100 ml or approximately a third of a can of soda — of sugary drinks like juices or sodas per day are linked to a higher risk of cancer,  …

(John Anderer/ Study Finds) — Nuts have always been viewed as a healthy snack and great source of protein, but new research suggests that a steady, hardy diet of nuts can also sustain mental sharpness and cognition as we age.

Conducted at the University of South Australia, the study found that consuming more than 10 grams of nuts per day   …

(David Clayton/ The Conversation) — Intermittent fasting is a method of dieting that restricts the amount of time you are allowed to eat. The appeal of these diets is that you don’t need to count calories or eat certain foods. But there are so many versions, it’s hard to know which one is best. Here’s what the research says.

The 5:2 diet This  …