Social climbing is actually good for your health - high status can boost your immune system

Social climbing has real, physical rewards - a Notre Dame, Indiana, study showed high ranking individuals recovered quickest from injury and disease.

High-ranking people less likely to fall ill and recover faster from injuries

London, May 22 (ANI): Climbing the career ladder might actually be good for your health, say scientists who have found that high-ranking individuals recover quickest from injury and disease.

Dewar, Roethel take women's, men's two-day events

The way Emma Dewart breezed around the track Wednesday in the 800 meters, the final event of the grueling two-day heptathlon at the Penn Relays, one would never know she has battled pneumonia and bronchitis for a good portion of the outdoor track and field season.

Raising 'good cholesterol' may not help much

The name alone sounds so encouraging: HDL, the "good cholesterol." The more of it in your blood, the lower your risk of heart disease. So bringing up HDL levels has got to be good for health. Or so the theory went.

Leaked Memo: Afghan ‘Burn Pit’ Could Wreck Troops’ Hearts, Lungs

For years, U.S. government agencies have told the public, veterans and Congress that they couldn't draw any connections between the so-called "burn pits" disposing of trash at the military's biggest bases and veterans' respiratory or cardiopulmonary problems. But a 2011 Army memo obtained by Danger Room flat-out stated that the burn pit at one of Afghanistan's largest bases poses "long-term ...