Life Style/Health

  by Genevra Pittman Children and teens who watch a lot of television are less likely to get their fruits and vegetables and more likely to snack on candy or drink soda every day, according to a survey of close to 13,000 U.S. students. The link...

Thinking of liposuction to trim your tummy? You may want to make sure you exercise after that, or risk putting on even more unhealthy fat. According to a Brazilian study, women who have liposuction may actually gain some fat deeper within the abdome...

  Experimental drugs that show a big effect early in development for treating serious or life-threatening diseases would get a faster and cheaper path to US approval, under a proposal likely to become law this year. US drug regulators would be a...

  By Genevra Pittman An intensive obesity-prevention  programme for Australian girls didn’t lead to any improvements in their diet, physical activity or body weight a year later, according to a new report. Findings from the school-based inte...

  Instructor Gabriella Boston leads the spin portion of her class at the Results Gym in Washington. By Lenny Bernstein It seems as though we are always struggling for balance in our lives. Work or play? Spend or save? Eat that doughnut or save ...

  Aspirin works as well as the blood thinner warfarin, or Coumadin, in most patients with heart failure when it comes to preventing death, stroke or brain hemorrhage, said a major international study. The findings published in the New England Jo...

  By LAURAN NEERGAARD About 15 million premature babies are born every year — more than 1 in 10 of the world’s births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic...

Two Britons seem to be ageing in reverse after contracting a bizarre condition which is rapidly making them behave like kids. The two brothers -- Matthew, 39, and Michael Clark, 42 -- contracted terminal leukodystrophy last year. It usually only aff...

  Berries are good for the brain, according to a study that suggests the fruits can help fend off the mental decline of aging. Women who ate one or more servings of blueberries or two or more servings of strawberries a week over two decades had min...

  When 22 bird flu experts meet at the World Health Organization (WHO) this week, they will be tasked with deciding just how far scientists should go in creating lethal mutant viruses in the name of research. The hurriedly-assembled meeting is d...