Health and Fitness
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Evaluating health of preemiesOct 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting health problems in premature babies that they say is much more reliable than the standard Apgar sc...
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More awareness about high blood pressureOct 30, 2010 11:00 pm - ATLANTA — More American adults are aware they have high blood pressure, and more are taking medicine to try to control it, according to a new government report. Yet the ...
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New options to treat drug addictionOct 30, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — New treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic painkillers promise longer-lasting relief that may remove some day-to-day uncertainty of care: A once-a-m...
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Cloudy vision may be sign of Fuchs' dystrophyOct 25, 2010 1:00 am - Q. My mother-in-law is 70 years old. She never had a need to see an eye doctor until last week, when she scratched her eye. She found a local ophthalmologist who tol...
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Exercise while commutingOct 25, 2010 1:00 am - There are commutes that are walkable, commutes that are runnable, commutes that are bikeable and then there's my commute: 40 miles each way from Baltimore to downtown W...
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Chest first, then breaths for CPROct 25, 2010 1:00 am - DALLAS — New guidelines switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts “the simplest ...
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Standing is the new sitting in officesOct 25, 2010 1:00 am - Some people can't stand working. Mark Ramirez works standing. He is not a waiter or a factory worker. He is a senior executive at AOL. Ramirez could, if he wanted, curl ...
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Be afraid of candy nutrition labelsOct 25, 2010 1:00 am - Even if you don't go trick-or-treating, it's hard to avoid Halloween candy this time of year. For those of us who aim to eat healthfully, there are three basic approache...
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Crackdown on chelation therapy drugsOct 25, 2010 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — Federal health officials have announced a crackdown on a controversial therapy widely hawked on the Internet and elsewhere as an alternative treatment for c...
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Lung taste receptors may improve asthma treatmentOct 23, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — The ability to taste isn't limited to the mouth, and researchers say that discovery might one day lead to better treatments for diseases such as asthma. It ...