In the unprecedented San Francisco circumcision ban campaign, much attention is being paid to the cartoon that the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups are calling anti-Semitic. But what of the medical ramifications?
7-Eleven is giving out free 7.11 ounce Slurpees at stores across the United States in celebration of its 84th birthday. But some are saying that 7-Eleven's refreshing beverages, just perfect for a hot summer day, are a great way to ruin beach bodies across the nation.
A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea was found to be resistant to antibiotics, international researchers say. According to the CDC, more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year and less than half of these infections are reported to CDC.
No matter how young you are you should be exercising, according to a new health guidance issued by the United Kingdom.
A Texas mother gave birth Monday to a 16 Pound boy, believed to be the biggest baby ever born in the state of Texas.
A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea was found to be resistant to antibiotics, international researchers say. According to the CDC, more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year and less than half of these infections are reported to CDC.
While a Texas mother may have set a new state record after giving birth to a baby boy, JaMichael Brown, weighing more than 16 pounds, there have been other babies across the world who began the 'large' standard.
Those Slurpees that 7-11 stores across the country are handing out today might be free, but they will only serve to make you fatter and unhealthier in the long run,
Janet Johnson and Michael Brown knew they were going to have a big baby, going as far to tell friends and family to not buy newborn clothes for the baby shower. But neither one of them expected their son, JaMichael, to weigh in at an incredible 16 pounds, 1 ounce when he was born on Sunday.
TIME's Healthland reports that there are still strong social pressures for men to be breadwinners, as a recent study published in the American Journal of Sociology shows that for men, unemployment in a relationship is more a prediction for divorce than unhappiness.
A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea has become resistant to antibiotics, international research shows.
Secondhand smoke can cause ADHD and other learning disabilities, according to a recent study by the Center for Disease Control.
Move over Herpes; there is a new untreatable sexually transmitted disease in town. Researchers have discovered a new strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to antibiotics, a possible precursor to a global health scare.
Scientists in Japan have found a new antibiotic-resistant strain of Gonorrhea bacteria, which can lead to a global public pandemic.
The UCLA Health System will pay $865,500 as part of a settlement agreement because its employees snooped into celebrity patients' medical records resulting in a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPPA violation .
Health officials confirmed Friday the death of an Arizona man tied to the food-poisoning outbreak in Europe a month after the United States Food and Drug Administration reported a five-state outbreak linked to sprouts.
A giant hogweed is spreading across New York, threatening humans with sap that causes severe burns, blistering, permanent scarring and even blindness. N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued a giant hogweed warning and set up a hotline since the weed's growth has become out of control.
Scientists have found a superbug strain of gonorrhoea in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.
Dr. Jan Garavaglia is a district (chief) medical examiner in Florida and the pathologist who autopsied two-year-old Caylee Anthony.
Wichita, Kansas native Dr. Mila Means, a physician trying to open an abortion clinic in Wichita, received a letter kindly advising her to check under her car every morning recently. The letter went on to say, because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Arizona Department of Health said Friday that a man who recently traveled to Germany was infected by the German E. coli outbreak. The man died from kidney complications.
Navel swabs of volunteers threw up nearly 600 new strains of bacteria
Who would have thought that your mother or grandmother is all about sex?
Obesity is on the rise with no end in sight. A Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study showed that adult obesity rose in 16 US states and declined in none in the past year.
A study released by the Ministry of Health revealed today that approximately one of three new HIV infections in China are found in homosexual men. HIV was present in almost 20 percent of men in some south-western cities on the mainland, indicating that HIV and poverty living in a big city are positively related.
A study was released by The Kinsey Institute of Indiana indicated that men enjoy cuddling and hugging more than woman. The 1,009 couples surveyed were middle-aged or older and have been in their relationship for 25 or more years.
The federal government said Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should be considered armed and dangerous like heroin. Marijuana use was recently approved my many states including California to treat medical conditions including chronic pain.
The report indicated that all U.S. state obesity rates were below 15% twenty years ago, suggesting that we are doing this to ourselves. Obesity rates have increased by greater than 90% in 10 states and have doubled in seven.
James Thomas Hackemer, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, was riding the Ride of Steel roller coaster in the front row when he fell off to his untimely death.
Older women just want to have sex, according to a recent release by the Kinsey Institute, whereas men like to cuddle.
