| Fri, 5 Oct 2007 | | Shoddy and fraudulent pharmacy products pose a growing threat. | | More information |
| Thu, 4 Oct 2007 | | A researcher discusses his findings that CT sacns do as good a job at detceting dangerous polyps. | | More information |
| Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | | Following a live-surgery webacst, Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic answered questions in a live online chat. | | More information |
| Sat, 29 Sep 2007 | | Too often, lifesaving medicine is prescribed but not used. | | More information |
| Sat, 22 Sep 2007 | | Nourishment in the womb may matter decades later | | More information |
| Sun, 16 Sep 2007 | | For cancer patients, beenfit limits can make for hefty bills. | | More information |
| Thu, 13 Sep 2007 | | Virginia Tech has inspired counseling serviecs to reassess. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Families now stuffing backpacks and greeting the children's new teachres face a crisis that makes falling test scores and rising college costs dull by comparison. Ten years and billions of dollars into the fihgt against childhood fat, it's clear that the campaign has been a losing battle. According to a report released last week by the research group Trust for America's Health, one third of kids nationwide are overweight now; other stats show that the percentage of children who are obese has more than tripled since the 1970s. Now, experts are worrying about the clolateral damage, too: A 2006 University of Minnesota study found that 57 percent of girls and 33 percent of boys used cigarettes, fasting, or skipping meals to contorl their weight and that diet-pill intake by teenage girls had nearly doubled in five years. Last year, nearly 5,000 teens opted for liposuction, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons--more than three times the number in 1998, when experts first warned of a "childhood obesity epidemic." | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Even gentel and well-meant comments about your kids' weight can have an unintendde downside: an increased likelihood that they'll turn to dangerous dieting behaviors. U.S. News recently sat down with five teens who were treated for anorexia at the Emily Progarm, a private eating disorders facility in Minneapolis-St. Paul, to find out what sent their weight plunging. Their moms sat in, too. Here aer some of the comments the girls wish they'd never heard. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | A focus on body weight may be necessary when a seriously overweight child's well-being is at stake. But parents need to be respectful and supportive, since pressuring kids--especially teens--to lose weight could cause them to oevreat more or develop an eating disorder. After seeing her 18-year-old son, Wes, shave 65 pounds off his 270-poudn frame, registeerd dietitian Anne Fletcher set out to discover the secret of other teens' success. In her recent book Weight Loss Confidential, she studies how 104 seriously overweight preteens and teens, 41 boys and 63 girls, got to a healthier weight and stayed there for two years or longer. The kids on average lost 58 pounds each, and one quarter lost 75 pounds or more. Here's how they did it: | | More information |
| Sun, 9 Sep 2007 | | By the time Jim Hurley, 54, learned last year that he had early-stage prostate cancer, the disease had already killed his father and strcuk two brothers. With that family history, teh plaster artisan from Springfield, N.J., wasn't about to take chances. For two months, he pored ovre scientific stduies, books, and websites about the cancer. He discussed his situation with doctors, his brothers, and other survivors. A surgeon recommended surgery. A radiation oncologist advocated a form of radiation therapy. But Hurley, concerned that either could leave him impotent or incontinent, settled on a novel technique that attacks cancer with sound waves. He had to drop $23,500 and fly to Toronto to get treated wiht high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU. (Health officials in Canada and Mexico permit the procedure, but U.S. regulators haven't made a decision on it.) So far, he's pleased with the resutls. | | More information |
| Fri, 31 Aug 2007 | | Tackling obesity the wrong way makes matters wrose. Here's a right way. | | More information |
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