AP - For parents concerned about their overweight teens, new research suggests the best tactic might be to just relax and cook a healthy Sunday dinner.
AP - Women are dying from complicated pregnancies and childbirth at almost the same rate they were in 1990, and the vast majority of deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, a report said Friday.
AP - Advocates for the disabled want two theme parks to lift a ban on Segways, saying the scooters give people who can't walk a degree of freedom not afforded by wheelchairs.
AP - The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it would look into claims from an advocacy group that certain lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead. Similar claims in the past have not been confirmed, the agency said.
Reuters - Overweight children seen in the ER for an asthma flare-up are more likely to be admitted to the hospital than their non-overweight peers, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. Moreover, this finding holds true regardless of illness severity.
AP - The Vatican said Saturday it has suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden camera recorded him making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful.
HealthDay - SATURDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Moderate, long-term use ofopioid pain medications such as morphine does not impair a person'sdriving ability, U.S. researchers report.
Reuters - The United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia, according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - People with Alzheimer's disease sometimessuffer from depression, often when they begin to understand their loss ofmemory.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Neither of two commonly usedradiation treatments for early-stage breast cancer has any negative effecton a patient's immune system, concludes a Loyola University Health Systempilot study.