Calories Count, Diets Fail

Health met physics in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine with a study revealing that the type of diet doesn’t matter so much for weight loss – be it low-fat, low-carb, 70-percent... Read more

Octuplets’ grandmother conciliatory in interview

The mother of the Southern California woman who used a fertility doctor to give birth to octuplets sounded a conciliatory note toward her daughter in a TV interview posted online Monday. Angela Suleman... Read more

Avoiding the painkiller-overuse rut in migraines

Those pain pills you think help your migraines? Take too many and you could make them worse. Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more... Read more

Nursing home industry worries about new ratings

Rating systems help people decide which restaurants to go to or hotels to stay at. So why not something similar from the federal government for the nation’s 16,000 nursing homes? Such a simple rating... Read more

Autism, other disorders linked to post-natal factors: study

Autism and obsessive-compulsive disorders may be linked to factors other than genetics, despite widely held beliefs otherwise, according to a study published Wednesday in the American journal Neuron. When... Read more

Obese Kids More Prone to Limb Injuries in Car Crashes

During a car crash, American children who are overweight or obese face twice the risk of injury to their arms, legs and feet that normal-weight children do, a new study reveals. The findings come from... Read more

Obese have right to 2 airline seats: Canada court

Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of... Read more

Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier

Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international... Read more

Obama health plan to cost $75 billion: analysis

President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system would cost the federal government $75 billion the first year but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans,... Read more

Education Program Spurs Blacks to Take Blood Pressure Meds

A patient education program that included encouragement and occasional gifts improved medication adherence — taking medicines consistently and correctly — among black Americans with high blood... Read more

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