NEW YORK – Overweight children and teenagers may eat more when they have a snack with an overweight friend rather than a thinner peer, a new study suggests.
NEW YORK – Overweight children and teenagers may eat more when they have a snack with an overweight friend rather than a thinner peer, a new study suggests.
WASHINGTON - No fish can escape mercury pollution. That’s the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 streams across the country.
BOSTON - Injections of the active ingredient of heroin work far better than oral methadone for keeping addicts in treatment, away from illegal drugs and out of trouble, Canadian researchers reported on Wednesday.
MILWAUKEE – Kids with a broken arm do better on a simple over-the-counter painkiller than on a more powerful prescription combination that includes a narcotic, a surprising study finds.
Northern hemisphere countries have so far ordered more than one billion doses of swine flu vaccine, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, sparking warnings over shortages.
Severe sleep apnea raises the risk of dying early by 46 percent, US researchers reported on Monday, but said people with milder sleep-breathing problems do not share that risk.
NEW YORK - Older people poorly understand most of the important warning signs of stroke and factors that increase risk for this medical emergency, researchers from Dublin, Ireland, have found.
A test of lipsticks commissioned by a German consumer protection magazine has found more than half of them to be potential health hazards.
The days of squeezing fruit and checking sell-by dates on meat products may soon be over, thanks to a revolutionary new metal-oxide sensor being developed by a team of German scientists.
Before sun worshippers relax on the beach they should apply sunscreen cream at least twice, according to a Munich dermatologist.