

WASHINGTON -- The common practice of scheduling a Caesarean section a little early to make childbirth more convenient sharply increases the risk that babies will be born with potentially serious complications, according to the first large-scale study ...
Read more...Guest blogger Jane: Can someone please tell me when it became OK to panhandle at work? By panhandling, I mean selling Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, and Do-si-Dos to unsuspecting and defenseless co-workers. Isn't there some law about soliciting in a ...
Read more...If you don't want your children to be obese adults, make sure they're slim at age 5. That's the message of a study in this month's Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. As part of the Early Bird Diabetes study, researchers in ...
Read more...WASHINGTON — The waistlines of America's youths are expanding, shrinking the pool of those eligible to join the U.S. military. But an Army program is giving overweight enlistees a second chance — and helping the military with its own expansion ...
Read more...For millions of us, this is the time when we resolve to change some aspect of our life. Often it's the same resolution as past promises and time and again many of us fall fail to achieve our goal. As we look ahead to a challenging economic outlook ...
Read more...Washington - The waistlines of America's youth are expanding, shrinking the pool of those eligible to join the US military. But an Army program is giving overweight enlistees a second chance – and helping the military with its own expansion. The ...
Read more...A new program through Henry County Mentoring and HHCC's Wellness Journey called PowerUP aims to turn middle-school-aged youth on to exercise. Cathy Ewing, coordinator of the Henry County Mentoring Program, told the Healthy Henry County Communities ...
Read more...Three years ago, the word went round Hollywood that Tom Cruise had lost it. The star had gone from being a heartthrob to a laughing stock. His increasingly bizarre and childish behaviour, along with his public support for Scientology, cost him a ...
Read more...Kids who sleep less than 10 hours a night are likely to become overweight by age 6, a new study has found. The research team led by Universite de Montreal found that 30 per cent of children in the age group 6 months to six years have difficulties ...
Read more...Christian Marin hops over plastic hurdles and weaves through plastic cones as quickly as he can, but the only competition he sees is himself. "I'm just trying to go faster than I did before," says Christian, 8. His brother, Gabriel, 6, and his sister ...
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