NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – humans who manage to reduce their waistlines may additionally lower their risk for diabetes and heart disease, a study suggests. Original post by admin

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Younger smokers trying to quit are less likely than older smokers to use effective strategies like patches or medication to help them kick the habit, a new study shows. Original post by admin

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study of preteen girls has found that seriously disordered eating behavior, such as binge-eating and purging, is exceedingly rare in that age group. However, the researchers did find that among the 9- to 13-year-olds they surveyed, 13 percent reported dieting at...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China, reeling from a series of health scandals, on Friday told food and drug companies to put safety first and urged the media to paint a rosier picture as the government scrambled to quell public alarm. Original post by admin

TORONTO (Reuters) – Passengers who were aboard a flight with a U.S. tuberculosis patient in May launched nine civil lawsuits against him on Thursday, claiming that he deliberately exposed them to the disease. Original post by admin

It has been only 7 months since the beginning of the year but there are already 3 new “diagnoses” published in the professional and mainstream media: Prostatempathy is the reported tendency for male physicians of a certain age to order prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening more than...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. grocers and foodmakers would be called for to put country-of-origin labels on cuts of red meat beginning September 30, 2008, under a bill approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday. Original post by admin

Dr. Anthony Komaroff Harvard Medical School is getting into social networking. The venerable medical institution already produces a wide array of newsletters, books and online subject matter featuring health data for consumers. But now Harvard Health Publications is teaming with online networking site...

Abbott Laboratories said it isn’t seeking other buyers of two slow-growing diagnostics units after their sale to GE fell through final night. But Wall Street isn’t buying that talk. Larry Biegelsen at Wachovia says other bidders were lining up for Abbott’s diagnostics businesses before GE won out,...

During thunderstorms, the Health Blog’s mom always told us to unplug the TV, avoid the phone and stay absent from windows. We ignored her most of the instance. But a letter in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine certain got our attention. Doctors at Vancouver General Hospital describe...

Patients aren’t the only ones confused approximately how the government pays for health care. The WSJ reports that dawn that North General Hospital in New York’s Harlem was tripped up by the Byzantine maze of government reimbursements and was forced to revise its 2005 results to show a $6.2 million...