We can call it a disease, a condition, a state of weight, even a state of mind. We can offer all kinds of explanations as to why we have an ongoing battle with our weight. We can justify the pounds and are inability to sustain weight loss; we can complain about it, we can choose to live with it. But if we remain obese, we cannot deny the new studies that are linking obesity to dangerous health risks and health conditions.
The first of two reports suggests that there is a strong...
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A two-year-old boy in Texas has become the first fatality of the U.S. swine flu outbreak, officials say. The child is the first person to die of... Read more »
The more life-threatening consequences of the H1N1 swine flu virus are linked to pneumonia, but that the pneumonia vaccine is being underused, health... Read more »
This summer, health news was dominated by information on the H1N1 flu virus. And just like a child’s game of “telephone,” the facts about the... Read more »
Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Zocor, Crestor, and Lipitor may help prevent people with severe flu from dying, new research suggests. Scientists... Read more »
The United States has had a mild flu season, experts say, with the season's peak expect in March or April. But while some people only suffer the... Read more »
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