HEALTH

If nautical nonsense be something you wish, then maybe you shouldn't let your kids tune into SpongeBob SquarePants, according to a new study claiming fast-paced cartoons can lead to learning problems in young children.

Woman died of natural causes, medical examiner says.

British actor, Andy Whitfield, who played a main character on Starz network’s “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” died on Sunday after battling Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma cancer for more than a year.

They meow, they glow in the dark and they could help scientists understand how to shield the immune system against the ravages of HIV/AIDS.

Scientists are hoping that cats genetically engineered to glow in the dark can illuminate new ways to develop treatment for AIDS.

An investigation into a listeria outbreak that has killed at least one person has expanded to include three states where possibly tainted cantaloupe was consumed, Colorado health officials said on Friday.

Malaysian authorities have seized a Malaysian orangutan who delighted visitors by smoking cigarettes tossed into her cage.

SpongeBob SquarePants, a popular children's cartoon, can be hazardous to children's health.

According to a recent study published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, women on birth control pills retain only gist of events than other women who do not take contraceptive pills.

WellPoint Inc, the U.S. health insurer, and IBM have agreed to commercially use IBM's Watson technology which will help physicians identify best treatment options.

The investigation into a listeria outbreak has been expanded to include three states where contaminated cantaloupe was consumed, Colorado health officials say.

A study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta predicts that enrolling 70 percent of older adults who are at risk for diabetes or cardiovascular disease in community-based intervention programs would reduce Medicare expenditures by up to $15 billion.

A new U.S. study says women with hereditary cancers are developing them almost eight years earlier than their mothers and grandmothers.

Scientists have developed genetically modified cats that emit a green glow and have cells that fight the virus which causes feline AIDS.

An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants time limits on the use of osteoporosis drugs, but could not agree on a figure.

Long-term exposure to a class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates is associated with serious side effects, concluded panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Biphosphonates, drugs introduced to the market 16 years ago that treats osteoporosis, need labeling to clarify how long patients should take them as data suggests that efficacy decreases while risk increases after some period, panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted on Friday.

Jennifer Hudson isn't the only one shedding pounds through Weight Watchers. A scientific study finds that Weight Watchers is a more effective way to lose weight rather than visiting the doctor for a standard weight-loss plan.

Warner Chilcott Plc (WCRX), Roche Holding AG (ROG), Merck **9** Co. and Novartis AG (NOVN) need to change the labeling of Bisphosphonates, a medicine taken by patients to prevent and cure osteoporosis, the FDA said.

Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard Inc. have to carry more clinical studies and present more safety data on the transvaginal mesh used to treat prolapsed pelvic organ, FDA said on Friday.

A new study by Harvard University researchers suggest that women who drink alcohol in reasonable quantity and time, have better chances to be in good physical and mental health in old age, then non-drinkers.

An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration wants the agency to limit the duration of bisphosphonate therapy for treatment of osteoporosis, but the committee could not agree on what that time limit should be.

Cantaloupe is the likely source of a listeria outbreak involving three states as reported by Colorado health officials.

The owner of a Texas daycare center has been arrested for allegedly drugging milk and abusing the kids.

Beyond the rubble, debris, and destruction, exists several individuals who risk their lives daily and who made no exception on September 11, 2001, despite hazardous toxins floating around in the air.

People respond preferentially to pictures of animals, according to a new study.

In the new film Contagion, a rapidly evolving virus threatens to wipe out global society and federal health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose staffers served as extras, must save the world from the killer outbreak.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced the availability of two funding opportunities for community health centers to help build, expand and improve community health centers across the U.S. to provide needed care to low-income Americans.

More people chose to stick to the Weight Watchers diet, and lost more weight and fat mass, than those assigned to standard primary care, new research found.