LA story of homeless man in despicable state dropped into street

A six-year-old Richland girl is suing the maker's of the Easy-Bake Oven, Hasbro, Incompany, for one-point-two (M) million dollars after she got her hand stuck in the oven for more than three hours. Emergency room doctors were forced to cut the device off

It seems like the latest craze in dieting and health, everywhere you turn there are commercials, infomercials, magazine articles, and of course, sales pitches regarding the Detox diet. So how is one to decipher whether detoxification is a relative need...

This summer, with the Food and Drug Administration's permission, pharmacies will begin selling alli, an over-the-counter version of the weight loss drug orlistat. The decision marks the first time such a drug has been available without a prescription.

Democrats have made it clear: They don't support recommendations from President Bush that would shave an estimated $77 billion from government health programs for seniors and the poor. But Bush doesn't need lawmakers' support for some of the changes that

Autism is more common in the United States than anyone had estimated, affecting about one in every 150 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday. <br /> CDC estimated that about 560,000 people up to age 21 in the

Do not give your children fluoridated water. In an email alert sent to all of its members the American Dental Association finally acknowledges the danger of fluoridated water for infants.

There's a brief item in the February 12 issue of New York magazine-nauseatingly entitled "Ommm vs. Yummm"- in which Geoffrey Gray tells of a meeting at Jivamukti Yoga in Manhattan. The subject of this meeting is foie gras (pronounced fwah grah) or more

The idea of health freedom is one Americans likely never consider. Certain freedoms in this country are taken for granted -- like the freedoms of speech and religion -- so freedom to choose a method of health care seems a given. Unfortunately, recent case

A nationwide survey finds that 14 percent of doctors feel no obligation to tell patients about medical options they morally oppose, such as abortion and teen birth control. And 29 percent believe they have no duty to refer people elsewhere for such tr