Ideal Body Weight
For years, people looked up their weight on tables drawn from insurance company statistics. While those are still around, this is a newer, more accurate way to calculate what is truly a healthy weight range for you.
Women's Health
MS need not preclude pregnancy
Late preterm births increasing in U.S.
Pregnancy complication may be linked to thyroid problems
Folic acid fortification might boost cancer risk
Viagra helpful for children with heart defect
U.S. scores a 'D' on preterm birth report card
Health tip: creating your birth plan
Health tip: what causes urinary tract infections in women?
Health tip: symptoms of postpartum depression
Singing in pregnancy may be harder work
Dieting
Gut bacteria might be making people fat
Fasting on alternate days may make dieting easier
To feel better, low-fat diet may be best
Living with less TV, more sweat boosts weight loss
For people on dialysis, too thin can be risky
For obese, weight gained in pregnancy may not leave
Obese middle-aged women face unhealthy future
When pounds go, sleep apnea may improve
How weight loss helps the heart
Social stress sends body fat to the stomach
Nutrition
Benefits of eating fish may depend on preparation
Biotech soybeans good source of omega-3
Tapping into curry's health benefits
Health tip: signs that you might be malnourished
Chocolate soothes the stressed-out soul
Green tea may help prevent oral cancer
Fast eating limits gut hormones that induce fullness
Diet soda, sodium tied to kidney trouble: studies
Herbicides, fibrate drugs may block taste receptors
Coffee may slow liver disease
Depression
Family history key to psychiatric disorder risk
Anti-smoking drugs get FDA 'black-box' warning
Sad dads may lead to crying infants
Almost quarter of suicides involve intoxication
Study refutes depression gene finding
Depression may lead to more preemies among blacks
If Mom or Dad is depressed, kids need help too
Early bedtime may help stave off teen depression
Severe nightmares may warn of suicidal symptoms
Insomnia and anxiety may be genetically linked
Cancer News
Discovery Boosts Boys' Prospects for Post-Cancer Fertility
New pap test guidelines: start later, have fewer
Morphine may help tumors spread in cancer patients
Lab study slows breast cancer spread to bone in mice
Leukemia drug may help some ovarian cancer patients
Cancer can strain marriages to breaking point
Istodax approved for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Thyroid cancer higher in volcanic areas
New HPV vaccine might stop vulvar cancer in its tracks
PSA reading could predict post-radiation survival
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