Unable or unwilling to completely erase his predecessor's signature initiatives, President Donald Trump this past week turned to another approach: wreaking havoc. Trump's back-to-back body blows against President Barack Obama's health care law and nuclear agreement with Iran demonstrated the president's embrace of turmoil as ...
The world had 10 times as many obese children and teenagers last year than in 1975, but they were still outnumbered by underweight kids, a study said Wednesday. Warning of a "double burden" of malnutrition, researchers said the rate of increase in obesity far outstripped ...
People, it seems, have never been so afraid of their food — and, say some experts, an obsession with healthy eating may paradoxically be endangering lives. Twenty-nine-year-old Frenchwoman Sabrina Debusquat recounts how, over 18 months, she became a vegetarian, then a vegan — eschewing eggs, ...
Contrary to popular belief, busy city centers beat suburban living when it comes to human wellbeing, as socializing and walking make for happier, healthier people, according to a new report. Downtown residents — packed together in tight row houses or apartment blocks — are more ...
European regulators approved 39 new cancer drugs between 2009 and 2013 despite having no evidence that they worked, unnecessarily exposing patients to toxicity, researchers said Thursday. The number represented more than half the 68 cancer treatments to become available for European patients during this period, ...
Their concert turned into combat, and now their lives may become an ongoing battle. The staggering count of people injured in the shooting at a Las Vegas music festival means their recoveries are likely to be as varied as the victims themselves. Some injuries are ...
Three members of Congress are demanding answers after a St. Louis scholar's new book revealed details of how the U.S. government sprayed, injected and fed radiation and other dangerous materials to countless people in secret Cold War-era testing. The health ramifications of the tests are ...
Zika has been around for decades but only recently began to cause birth defects due to a single mutation the mosquito-borne virus likely acquired in 2013, researchers said Thursday. The report in the U.S. journal Science explains for the first time how this once relatively ...
Mosquitoes harbor gut bacteria just like people do — and the bugs inside the bugs may hold a key to fighting malaria. Today, bed nets and insecticides are the chief means of preventing malaria, which sickens about 200 million people around the world and kills ...
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday he's "not happy" with his top health official, after Tom Price's government-paid travel on costly charter flights triggered a wide-ranging congressional investigation of the administration. Trump's displeasure, voiced repeatedly, called into question Price's job security as head of the Health ...
French researchers say they have restored some signs of consciousness in a brain-injured man who hadn't shown any awareness in 15 years. During months of experimental treatment, his gaze followed a moving object and he turned his head toward people speaking to him. He could ...
Dennis Lyon was a genetic train wreck. Cancer was ravaging his liver, lungs, bones and brain, and tests showed so many tumor mutations that drugs targeting one or two wouldn't do much good. It seemed like very bad news, yet his doctors were encouraged. The ...
