Study: Diet Soda Linked To Weight Gain
Updated: 7:19 AM A new study from the University of Texas reveals that drinking diet soda could still lead to weight gain.
Updated: 7:19 AM A new study from the University of Texas reveals that drinking diet soda could still lead to weight gain.
Updated: 6:00 AM A ban is in place on all imported orange juice after a potentially harmful fungicide was found in juice concentrates out of Brazil.
Posted: 10:40 AM CVS will pay $5 million to reimburse Medicare prescription drug beneficiaries who paid more than they expected for the drugs, and end an investigation by the FTC.
Posted: 10:22 AM For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top causes of death.
Posted: 2:52 PM Congress is asking the FDA to crack down on third-party auditors, like the one who gave Jensen Farms a "superior" rating just before a listeria outbreak that killed 30 people.
Posted: 10:50 AM College-age binge drinkers average an astounding nine drinks each time they get drunk, according to new data from the CDC.
Posted: 2:45 PM A coalition of health and education groups released new, non-binding recommendations for sex education.
Updated: 11:50 AM Expectant mothers in Memphis, Tenn. could receive $50 a prenatal visit if one lawmaker gets his way.
Updated: 5:41 AM The FDA is warning parents to look at the labels carefully when buying liquid acetaminophen for infants. There's a new, more diluted version of the medicine now available for infants.
Posted: 4:35 PM Parents are suing Johnson & Johnson because they say that a defective batch of Tylenol had killed their son.
Posted: 2:50 PM The government wants to start regulating face and hand transplants.
Posted: 6:48 AM A Denver-area university is taking the federal government to court over a mandate that would force the school to offer contraceptives in its group health plans.
Updated: 11:44 PM The Food and Drug Administration says it will limit the presence of one type of antibiotics in meat, saying they could increase human resistance to the drugs.
Posted: 3:33 PM There were 267 new prescription drug shortages in 2011, a number that well exceeded the previous record.
Posted: 4:10 PM The University of Colorado is considering offering discounted health insurance premiums to employees who work out.
Posted: 10:22 AM Nursing women in Utah have donated more than a ton of breast milk to a nonprofit milk bank since the University of Utah opened a donation center earlier this year.
Posted: 7:28 AM The federal government is giving Colorado more than $26 million to enroll more children in health insurance.
Posted: 10:56 AM Starting Jan. 1, coaches will be required to bench players when it's believed they've suffered a head injury.
Posted: 10:48 AM A little-known provision of President Barack Obama's health care law will soon begin charging health insurance plans a fee for research to see which drugs, tests and treatments work best.
Posted: 9:57 AM The journal Science is retracting a research paper suggesting that chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by a virus.
Posted: 10:04 AM The government is asking researchers not to publish data about a genetically engineered bird flu.
Posted: 6:25 AM A government health panel is advocating "active surveillance" of prostate cancer.
Posted: 2:28 PM Federal health regulators have approved the first heart pump for children with heart failure, offering an important treatment option for patients who are too small to receive adult implants.
Posted: 9:16 AM The Institute of Medicine says chimpanzees, humans' closest living relatives, should hardly ever be used for medical research anymore.
Posted: 10:15 AM A government survey found that one-quarter of women say they were violently attacked by their intimate partners.