Obese and overweight Americans combined for more than 60 percent of the population, said a recent Gallup poll, measuring overweight Americans with normal-weight Americans.
More than a hundred people from 24 states have been confirmed as infected with the deadly Listeria monocytogenes bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds there are more normal weight Americans than overweight.
A total of 21 people nationwide have now died in the listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
Califiornia children and youths under the age of 18 will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds under a bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed Sunday prohibiting minors from using ultraviolet tanning devices.
Dr. Michael Joyner, associate dean for research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. pays his tribute to John T. Shepherd, cardiovascular physician who also headed the American Heart Association, served as a NASA adviser and led U.S. scientific exchanges with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, died last Tuesday. He was 92.
A combo pill from drugmaker Merck, which treats both diabetes and high cholesterol, is the first of it sort to win the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers vote against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men.
A recall due to the listeria infection has just reached Buffalo, NY, according to NPR.
Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers voting against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men. Although the vote has drawn criticism from health groups worried that the move will increase deaths in men at risk of the cancer.
Advertisements have more influence on children's food choices than their parents, according to a study from Texas.
Researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to a study.
Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have increased over the last decade according to a government report.
Steve Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, called neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, that allowed him to survive longer than expected.
Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after eating cantaloupe containing listeria, a rare yet serious food-borne bacteria-caused illness that arose in early September.
CDC report shows that there has been a 60 percent increase in kids who come in for TBIs.
Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeriosis, a rare yet serious food-borne illness that arose in early September.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 56, deemed irreplaceable by millions of fans of the operating system, died on Wednesday due to his long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, beginning in 2004, when he underwent transplant surgery for it.
Sewage is home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some of which could relate to human health according to a new study.
In Iowa state a pregnant woman has suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeria infection traced to cantaloupes
The toll from listeria-tainted cantaloupes has risen to 18 dead and 100 sickened, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Wednesday.
Study shows hate circuit broken depressed people.
The FDA announced that the drug Avastin may impair fertility in some women. The drug's manufacturer has been battling the FDA for months to keep the agency from revoking its approval of Avastin's ability to treat breast cancer.
Mathematical model shows impact of smoking on the world.
Smoking could be responsible for 40 million excess deaths from tuberculosis between 2010 and 2050, says a new study.
The death toll in the U.S. from a Listeria outbreak traced to cantaloupes has risen to 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
Women who use contraception injections double their likelihood that they will contract an HIV infection or transmit it to their male partners according to a new research.
Study suggests that lighter-skinned people take vitamin D supplements.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a dramatic decline in drunk driving incidents, the lowest in two decades, most likely caused by the current state of the U.S. economy.
Study suggests that doctors check with mild stroke patients about depression and other effects.
