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LESBIANS are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death, US researchers said.
The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is one of the first large studies to look at obesity among lesbians.
Ulrike Boehmer of the Boston University [...]
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JACKSON, Mich. –A woman pretended to have liver cancer and took in about $20,000 from fundraisers to pay for her fictitious treatments, authorities said.
Jean Anne Allen, 36, was arraigned Thursday after state police said they found no evidence she was being treated for the disease.
“She duped a lot of people,” said state police Sgt. Lisa [...]
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Defects in the brain’s white matter, which is responsible for communication between parts of the brain, may be a key genetic factor contributing to schizophrenia, a new study suggests.
“This is the first clear demonstration of a new mechanism by which aspects of schizophrenia and other disorders could be produced,” said study senior author Gabriel Corfas, [...]
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Gifts Continue, Contacts Increase Despite Guidelines
Despite efforts to curb drug companies’ avid courting of doctors, the industry is working harder than ever to influence what medicines they prescribe, sending out sales representatives with greater frequency and plying physicians with gifts, meals and consulting fees, according to several new papers.
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Having a high IQ isn’t money in the bank, according to new research that shows smarter doesn’t necessarily mean richer.
A nationwide study shows people of below average and average intelligence are just as wealthy as those in similar circumstances with higher IQs.
In fact, researchers say the highly intelligent may be more prone to financial troubles.
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Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers’ compensation claims as their fit co-workers. (AP GRAPHIC)
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Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees [...]
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Australian doctors revealed Sunday that three people who died shortly after receiving organ transplants from the same donor were all infected with a previously unknown virus.
The virus was found in three Melbourne patients who died just weeks after they received organs from a 57-year-old man who suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage one week after returning [...]
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Scientists in China have identified a gene variant which appears to protect Chinese people from various types of cancer.
In the latest issue of the journal Nature Genetics, the experts said they had studied the DNA of nearly 10,000 Chinese people over 6- years and had found that the gene variant appeared far more frequently in [...]
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A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday.
Adding ethanol — the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits — boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, the researchers found.
Any colored fruit might be made even [...]
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Peru’s “miracle baby” walked around her nursery school yard Friday, ducking in and out of a plastic playhouse seven months after undergoing an operation to fully separate her fused legs.
Milagros Cerron, whose first name means “miracles” in Spanish, was born with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or “mermaid syndrome,” which left her legs [...]
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