Are their cultural reasons for America’s obesity problem?

Shockingly, Paula Deen, the morbidly obese woman who fries Twinkies on television, has diabetes.

For those of us who grew up in the 80s as the HIV/AIDS epidemic was just starting, this is the kind of news that you’d never thought you’d see: Canadian researchers received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an experimental and potentially breakthrough HIV vaccine on human subjects with [...]

Dr. Mike Evans of the University of Toronto argues that getting 30 minutes of exercise a day is the single best thing you can do with your health. The impact on all manner of potential health problems is staggering. via Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

A new ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals raises a host of questions.

From Europe, a case of regulation gone nuts.

Megan McArdle has been suffering with a severe autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid with some debilitating and generally unpleasant side effects. Treatment has reduced the symptoms greatly, thankfully, but they have her wondering about medical protocols in general: Thyroid deficiency is measured by checking the levels of something called Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH). When [...]

Will we wind up with a backdoor mandate? Or a single payer system?

Twitter is abuzz with news that Congress has declared pizza to be a vegetable. It’s actually not news at all.

A Federal Judge has blocked a new FDA rule that would have placed these labels on cigarette packaging.

One of the less ballyhooed parts of ObamaCare has been tossed aside as too expensive before it even went into effect.

Anesthesiologist Eugene Lipov thinks he has found a cheap, effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army won’t fund it.

Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman was among three men awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine this morning in Stockholm, but hours later his university announced that he had passed away three days earlier after a battle with cancer: A Canadian-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for his discoveries about the immune [...]

Chris Christie’s weight has become a political concern, apparently.

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

Many Americans die from preventable dental disease because they can’t afford care.

For the past 18 months, Medicare spending has slowed down considerably – especially compared to the private sector.

The Eleventh Circuit has struck down the individual mandate as exceeding Congress’ enumerated powers under the Commerce Clause.

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

Kevin Drum debunks a myth that seems to persist: why am I writing about this yet again? Because I’m amused by the fact that every couple of years someone rediscovers this myth, looks into it, and publishes a journal article debunking it. Valtin wrote about water requirements in 2002, the Institute of Medicine tackled the [...]

The choice is not between British-style socialized medicine and a free market in health care.

A majority of Americans want to ban smoking in public; a fifth want to ban it even in private.

The First Lady is coming under fire for hypocrisy in her meal choices.

A rider in a protest against motorcycle helmet laws crashed his motorcycle and died from head injuries he would have survived had he been wearing a helmet.

It’s often said that 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. It just isn’t so.

Yet another study shows that people who drink diet soda actually gain weight. But it probably doesn’t matter, since that’s not why people drink them.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

A new study says that radiation from cellphones is potentially as harmful a carcinogen as DDT and automobile exhaust: An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies. The statement was issued in Lyon, France, on Tuesday by the International Agency for Research on [...]

America’s physicians are becoming more liberal in response to changing working conditions.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on an interesting new diet: When he’s not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new “personal challenge,” as he calls it. “The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself,” says the Facebook founder and CEO. It’s an odd dietary direction [...]

The Care Quality Commission has found widespread neglect of elderly patients in the British National Health Service.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

According to a new study, daily coffee intake reduces the risk of prostate cancer: If that’s java in your cup, drink up. A new study says that men who are heavy coffee drinkers are at lower risk for prostate cancer. As part of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, Harvard scientists followed 47,911 men who periodically [...]

Drinking large amounts of coffee may ward off prostate cancer.

Apparently, sitting is killing you:

George Will reflects on turning 70.

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

For a small group of people—perhaps just 1% to 3% of the population—sleep is a waste of time.

The war on childhood fun reaches the East Coast.

Radiation from the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan continues to spread around the world: Washington (CNN) — There is no health risk from consuming milk with extremely low levels of radiation, like those found in Washington state and California, experts said Thursday, echoing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “When we have a disaster like we’ve [...]

Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.

Players from the Los Angeles Clippers chipped in to pay for the surgery of assistant coach Kim Hughes back in 2004. It’s been a secret until now.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

The House GOP wants to virtually eliminate Federal funding for poison control centers. The nation’s network of 57 poison control centers takes four million calls a year about people who may have been exposed to a toxic substance. In three-quarters of all cases, the centers are able to provide treatment advice that does not require [...]

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