Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today.
Following recent recalls of Chinese-made tires, toothpaste and toys, the Bush administration yesterday announced a plan to improve the safety of what Americans buy and eat by intervening before imports reach the United States.
Life has gotten pretty salty in recent decades. And no, that doesn't just describe the growing number of R-rated movies, raunchy song lyrics and wild Hollywood celebrities.
On the wall above Alison Malmon's cluttered Dupont Circle desk is a photograph of her older brother, Brian, taken soon before he killed himself more than seven years ago. He was a 22-year-old college student and she was a college freshman.
Under pressure from government regulators around the world, Bayer announced yesterday that it is suspending global sales of a drug widely used to control bleeding during heart surgery, after a study found that patients receiving the medication were at increased risk of dying compared with those w...
Q I think Howard is more likely to know the answer to this question, but I'm tossing it out to both of you: I'm a big numbers guy who would like to create a better calories-burned calculator. What I'm finding online are calculators that take into account weight, distance and/or duration for cycli...
It would be easy to resent Perri Klass. Just look at her biography on the Web site of the National Library of Medicine: "While earning her MD [at Harvard, where else?] Klass bore her first child, knit baby sweaters, contributed articles to Mademoiselle and the New York Times as well as to scientific...
At least 6,000 pounds of ground beef supplied to stores in the Washington area are included in a nationwide recall of beef possibly contaminated with E. coli bacteria, store officials said yesterday.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A new blood thinner proved better than Plavix, one of the world's top-selling drugs, at preventing heart problems after procedures to open clogged arteries, doctors reported Sunday. But the new drug also raised the risk of serious bleeding.
In the decades since young gay men in the United States started dying from a mysterious syndrome in the 1980s, scientists have wondered how and when the AIDS virus arrived. Many scenarios have been proposed, including one early but now-discounted theory that the disease was imported by a promiscu...
Ford Motor and the United Auto Workers union completed a tentative deal on a contract yesterday, averting a strike and capping a watershed period of labor negotiations in Detroit.
Maryland lawmakers contemplated yesterday making deeper spending cuts and applying the state sales tax to different services from those Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has proposed in a special session to close a shortfall next year of at least $1.5 billion.
Cargill said yesterday that it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the second time in less than a month it has recalled beef.
