Percent of Americans over age 2 who consume a sugary drink every day. Teen boys, aged 12-19, get the most calories of any group — 273 per day — from sugar-sweetened sodas and waters, energy drinks and fruit drinks. That's more than half the American Heart Association's recommended maximum of 450 calories of sugar-sweetened beverages [...]
The common wisdom among doctors suggests that heavier women have more hot flashes during menopause. But a small study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism adds a wrinkle to that thinking, finding that the relationship between weight and hot flashes may depend on a woman’s age.
Marilee Murphy Odendahl wants you to know a few things about her son, Ian. “He was marvelously funny, loyal, extremely intelligent and a really good observer of human behavior, so much that you wouldn’t necessarily like to be the focus of it. He loved music and played guitar. He was my joy.” She also wants [...]
Sweat it out on the treadmill or start pumping iron? A new study suggests that jogging (or similar aerobic exercise) is more effective than lifting weights for shedding fat lodged deep within the abdomen.
Time it would take to reach parity in pay between female and male executives, at current salary growth rates, according to a British study. Even though women executives' pay is increasing faster than that of their male counterparts, it would still take until 2109 to close the gap. For the same job, male executives earn [...]
Even with an African American couple in the White House, the fate of the black family in America has never been so precarious. That’s the message behind Is Marriage for White People?, a new book by Stanford Law professor Ralph Richard Banks.
Could a simple blood test predict a person’s risk of dying from heart disease or cancer?
U.S. ranking in lowest neonatal death rates worldwide, a drop from 28th place in 1990. Although fewer babies are now dying in their first four weeks — the neonatal period — in the U.S., the pace of progress has not kept up with other countries. Nations where newborns were more likely to survive than in [...]
Since Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he was running for President on Aug. 13, the American public has learned a great deal about his stance on various health care issues. We’ve also learned that he tends to make decisions based on evidence involving an n of 1: himself.
—AMY GUTMANN, chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which concluded on Tuesday its investigation into a series of federally funded experiments in the 1940s in which study volunteers in Guatemala were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases without their consent. To address research-related injuries going forward, the commission recommended that [...]
