Nearly 40 percent of American adults and 20 percent of children carry enough extra weight to warrant a diagnosis of obesity. That’s the highest obesity rate among the wo...
Though illness may be a cold
While summertime often brings children suffering from rashes into hospital emergency rooms, winter is the season when ER doctors determine wh...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Whether it’s a 30-year-old woman who has no time for doctor’s visits, or an embarrassed teen who doesn’t want to tell her parents she wants to use birth ...
Good doctor, good medicine and good nutrition. Good thing my horse, Cal, had all three after suffering a nasty gash to his leg a few weeks ago.
“He’s lucky,” two family ...
New treatment called historic
WASHINGTON — Opening a new era in cancer care, U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved a breakthrough treatment that genetically enginee...
ARDEN HILLS, Minn. —On a recent balmy midsummer day, Shawn Ryan spent his lunch break downhill skiing in a warehouse in Arden Hills. “You tell people in your office you'...
Less addictive levels the goal
For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren’t so addictive.
U.S. Food and...
In these glorious tomato growing months from June to September, the best tasting tomatoes are those grown close to home. Some of the best tomatoes to grace my taste buds...
SEATTLE — Allergy sufferers know the drill: Eyes that itch and water; sneezes that won’t stop; the fear that a hidden morsel of peanut will trigger a life-or-death crisi...
Dressed in a habit, she logs 6 to 9 miles
SEATTLE — In a fitness-forward city like Seattle, it's not surprising to see street athletes in all manner of pants, capris, sho...
