HEALTH

Eating your baby's placenta may be good for you, according to a new study

Kate and Carole Middleton's dietician Peirre Dukan, is under fire for his remarks that suggested slimmer teenagers should get higher exam marks at school.

Fakhra Younus, the Pakistani acid victim has committed the suicide. The 33-year-old ended her life after enduring three dozen surgeries that spanned from over a decade to repair the damage down to her face and body.

Twin 25-year-old sisters from the Chinese province of Yunnan have both underwent preliminary sex-change operations at a Shanghai hospital to become males. Shanghai Daily reports that this is a long-cherished shared dream finally come true.

It seems Alicia Silverstone brought her ditsy character in Clueless to real life. The actress has posted an utterly bizarre and somewhat disturbing video of herself chewing up her 10-month son's breakfast and then spitting it into his mouth.

A victim of a 1997 gun accident has been given a new (exterior) outlook on life. Richard Lee Norris, a 37-year-old Virginia Man has been given a new face, teeth, tongue and jaw in a full face transplant.

Sitting for 11 hours or more per day raises the your risk of dying by 40 percent, according to a new study.

Opana is the hot new prescription drug of abuse, sometimes with tragic consequences. Back in high school in Houston, Texas, C.J. Coomer got good grades and played football. He was dark-haired and handsome, popular with his friends and doted on by his family.

Nadya Suleman shocked the world when she gave birth to eight babies in 2009. Octomom Nadya Suleman goes topless! How did she get her body back in Shape? Yes, the Octomom is making eyes popand dishing exercise and diet advice...in the same issue that the mom of 14 posed topless for Closer. Wearing a pair of flesh covered underwear and holding her hands over her breasts, Suleman told the magazine that she has never looked this good.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is becoming a widespread problem, according to a WHO researcher.

Secondhand smoke and bed sharing are major risk factors for SIDS, according to a new study.

Beef Products Inc., maker of the controversial pink slime, suspended operations at three of its four plants on Monday.

Oversleeping is linked to health problems such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease, according to several studies.

Oprah Winfrey took the Next Chapter edition of her show to Fairland, Iowa on Sunday where she explored a new type of spirituality: Transcendental meditation.

At 71, former Vice President Dick Cheney was older than average for a heart transplant and had to wait longer than the typical patient as well -- 20 months compared with a year or less.

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from a heart transplant he underwent on Saturday morning. The 71-year-old politician received a heart from an anonymous donor and is now in the intensive-care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.

This week, a dog was found abandoned by a passing motorist on Mooney Hill Road in Kent, N.Y. Little did that dog know, but his life was going to be completely turned around.

While the full bill won't be in effect until 2014, the health care overhaul has already benefited millions of Americans, according to the Obama administration.

Dissolvable tobacco use may reduce the risks that come from smoking, but could lead to more overall tobacco use, according to a report by an FDA panel

China faces a shortage of transplant organs and has long relied on organs from condemned prisoners, apparently with their prior consent.

The U.S. Army has started a system-wide review to ensure its mental healthcare facilities are not engaging in the unacceptable practice of considering treatment costs in making a diagnosis, Army Secretary John McHugh told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Singer Whitney Houston’s official cause of death was announced on Thursday, over one month after the 48-year-old was found dead in the bath tub of a Beverly Hilton Hotel bathroom. The Los Angeles coroner stated that Houston died of accidental drowning, with contributing factors of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine in her system.

The liberal advocacy group has produced a political ad that features women repeating some of the controversial statements about reproductive health from conservative leaders such as Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh.

Brazil will introduce tightened controls on sales of breast implants including lot-by-lot testing, the government said on Thursday, after thousands of defective French implants were sold in the country and across Latin America.

Tuberculosis reached its lowest levels in the United States since 1953, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.

Following on the heels of school districts, many national supermarkets have agreed to stop purchasing ground beef that contains the pink slime filler. While federal regulators say that the pink slime or lean, finely textured beef, meets food safety standards, the filler is unappetizing to consumers. The recent backlash has prompted some supermarkets from continuing to purchase and sell products containing the pink slime. Is your supermarket one of them?

Researchers found a potential cause for baldness that could lead to an effective drug in five years, according to a new study.

Congressional estimates of the cost of obesity are far too low, according to a new report.

Whitney Houston is the latest celebrity whose addiction to prescription pills ended in an untimely demise. On Tuesday, reps for Mike The Situation Sorrentino quickly refuted claims from TMZ that the reality star had checked into rehab, but last night the Situation took to his Facebook page to set the record straight.