Sperm counts in men from America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand have dropped by more than 50 percent in less than 40 years, researchers said on Tuesday. They also said the rate of decline is not slowing. Both findings — in a meta-analysis bringing together ...
An Egyptian believed to have been the world's heaviest woman before her surgery was hospitalized in Abu Dhabi on Thursday to continue treatment after a drastic weight-loss operation in India. Eman Ahmed Abd el-Aty weighed close to 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) before surgery in Mumbai ...
The "world's heaviest woman" has shed half her weight — around a quarter of a ton — in the two months she's been in India for treatment, doctors said. Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighed 500 kg (1,100 pounds) when she arrived in ...
Being overweight or obese in the first trimester of pregnancy has been linked to a higher risk of bearing a child with epilepsy, researchers said Monday. The study was based on data from 1.4 million children in Sweden, and was published in the Journal of ...
Infants cared for by parents who smoke are more likely to become obese children than those from a nonsmoking household, according to a health ministry report. According to the report, released Wednesday, the obesity rate for 13-year-olds who were exposed to secondhand smoke when they ...
Mary Clancey once was resigned to being a plump old lady. Over 15 years she kept getting bigger despite dieting. But with her health deteriorating, her son persuaded her to go to a hospital. What doctors found astounded them: an ovarian cyst that had grown ...
By 2030 life expectancy for South Korean women could top nine decades, an average lifespan long thought to be out of reach, researchers said Wednesday. South Korea is not only the first country in the world where women may live past 90 on average, it ...
Move over liposuction, the new fad in fat is freezing it. As plastic surgeons, dermatologists and beauticians from around the world gather in Paris to analyze trends at the IMCAS esthetic congress, here is some of what's new: No cuts, no needles, no anaesthesia. With "coolsculpting," ...
Scientists have found that the brain cells in mice that stimulate the urge to eat can be activated by alcohol as well as by hunger — a discovery that could help explain why binge drinking often leads to binge eating. In an experiment, mice subjected ...
A Mexican man who is believed to be the world's most obese person plans to undergo gastric bypass in the new year and reduce his 590 kilograms (1,300 pounds) by half, his doctor said Wednesday. The man, who does not give his family name to ...
People with a variant of a particular gene prefer high-fat food compared to people without it, said a recent study, suggesting our dietary preferences may be at last partly pre-coded. Unexpectedly, the same individuals had a reduced taste for sugar, according to a recent study ...
Being overweight can raise the likelihood of being diagnosed with cancers of the stomach and digestive tract, as well as certain brain and reproductive tumors, international researchers said Wednesday. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine adds eight more kinds of cancer to ...
