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Study: Artificial Sweeteners may equal to Health Risk
NEW YORK (AP) — Using artificial sweeteners may set the stage for diabetes in some people by hampering the way their bodies handle sugar, suggests a preliminary study done mostly in mice. The authors...
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Study: Artificial Sweeteners may promote diabetes
NEW YORK (AP) — Using artificial sweeteners may set the stage for diabetes in some people by hampering the way their bodies handle sugar, suggests a preliminary study done mostly in mice. The authors...
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Judge To Hear Objections To Hopkins $190 Million Settlement
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A Baltimore judge was set to hear objections Friday to a preliminary $190 million dollar settlement between Johns Hopkins Hospital System and more than 8,000 patients of a...
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Pole dancing being used for fitness
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Poles have long been a staple of smoky strip clubs, but the women scaling and swinging from them in Las Vegas earlier this month weren't doing it for dollar bills. Many of the...
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Flu Vaccine Recommendation
We'll I've got something for you to add to your to-do list for the week. It's time to get that flu shot. The centers for disease control and prevention recommends you get your flu shot now because it...
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21,000 Ebola cases by November if no changes warns WHO
LONDON (AP) — New estimates from the World Health Organization warn the number of Ebola cases could hit 21,000 in six weeks unless efforts to curb the outbreak are ramped up, according to an analysis...
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Red Cross team attacked while burying Ebola dead
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — A Red Cross team was attacked while collecting bodies believed to be infected with Ebola in southeastern Guinea, the latest in a string of assaults that are hindering efforts to...
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Health Matters: This Week’s Fox Fit Fix
It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for your weekly Fox Fit Fix. It's all about the dogs this weekend. The Los Encinos pool in McAllen is hosting a doggie pool day this Saturday from 11 until 4...
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Clues to how people bounce back from surgery
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the big frustrations of surgery: There's little way to know if you'll be a fast or slow healer, someone who feels back to normal in a week or is out of work for a month with...
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Widen Medicaid program for frail seniors
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen U.S. senators from both parties are calling on the Obama administration to broaden a Medicaid program for the nation's frailest seniors, calling it a proven...
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Pediatricians urge IUDs or implants for teen girls
CHICAGO (AP) — Teen girls who have sex should use IUDs or hormonal implants — long-acting birth control methods that are effective, safe and easy to use, the nation's most influential pediatricians'...
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Benefits Of Drinking Coffee
It's National Coffee Day and drinking that cup of joe may have great health benefits! The caffeine in coffee may help protect brain cells from damage and may even prevent Parkinson's, dementia and...
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Gov’t to reveal drug company payments to doctors
WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to shine a light on potential ethical conflicts in medicine, the Obama administration is releasing data on drug company payments to tens of thousands of individual doctors....
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Q&A about the U.S. Ebola case
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have warned for months that someone infected with Ebola could unknowingly carry the virus to this country, and there is word now that it has happened: A...
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Health Matters: Health Events This Weekend
It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for your weekly Fox fit fix. This Saturday is the mission regional medical center's 6th annual mission pink walk/run for breast cancer! Online registration is...
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Officials: About 80 being monitored for Ebola
DALLAS (AP) — About 80 people are now being monitored for symptoms of Ebola in Texas, a Dallas County Health and Human Services spokeswoman said Thursday. The people being monitored are the 12 to 18...
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Health Matters: Free Cleaning Services to Women with Cancer
Non-profit organization cleaning for a reason brings hope to women battling not only breast cancer, but all cancers. They provide free cleaning services to women with cancer----an idea that all stemmed...
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Crews clean quarantined Texas apartment
DALLAS (AP) — A hazardous-materials crew arrived Friday at a Texas apartment where the U.S. Ebola patient stayed to collect bed sheets and towels used by the infected man before he was hospitalized....
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Health Matters: Fitness Bands
Fitness bands may be doing more than just tracking our health and wellness. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says the popular health bands may be invading our privacy. Senator Schumer addressed this issue...
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Photographer covering Ebola: The world must see
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The biggest danger in a war zone is not seeing the enemy. What people face here in Liberia is a war, and no one has seen the enemy. From the balcony of the hotel that has...
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