| (USA TODAY) -- Taking a calcium supplement to help stop bones from thinning puts people at a greater heart attack risk, a report in the journal Heart said Wednesday.
(Chicago Tribune) -- Over the last decade, the nation's war on obesity has targeted some fairly obvious culprits, including fast food, pastries, fried foods and soda.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(USA TODAY) -- New research highlights drugs that make cancer therapy easier, but it also underscores the difficulties patients may encounter after treatment.
(USA TODAY) -- After learning she had advanced ovarian cancer, Susan Gubar felt the need to reassure her two grown daughters that not even death could separate them.
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.
(Canadian Press) -- Researchers say they have found evidence of a degenerative brain disease in soldiers exposed to blast injuries caused by a weapon that became a hallmark of the Afghanistan conflict.
NEW YORK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth complications has almost been reduced by half, the UN Population Fund said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.
(USA TODAY) -- Despite a breast-feeding brouhaha kicked off last week by a Time magazine cover photo of a mom nursing her 3-year-old son, that's actually the norm worldwide, experts say. But in the United States, breast-feeding children that old is practiced among a tiny sliver of mothers.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found - a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer.
WASHINGTON -- The obesity epidemic may be slowing, but don't take in those pants yet. Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday.
BANGKOK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Economic development and aggressive marketing of infant formula has led to a dramatic decline in breastfeeding in East Asia, threatening the cognitive development of children in the region, UNICEF has warned.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say more teen girls use the best kinds of birth control.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- The Obama administration's top drug policy official said Tuesday that although the government continues anti-drug efforts on the Southwest border, "we cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 15 million premature babies are born every year -- more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic.
MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) -- Midwives and doctors are longtime rivals in the politics governing where women should give birth: Home or hospital.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association.
(The New York Times News Service) -- (Moving in the "l" lifestyle news file)
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