CHICAGO, June 19 (UPI) --
The American Medical Association declared obesity a disease, which means 90 million U.S. adults and children have a medical condition requiring treatment.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- One-in-5 employees age 45-74 say they expect to take time off of work to care for a spouse, a parent or relative in the next five years, AARP officials say.
ADELAIDE, Australia, June 19 (UPI) -- Iodized salt in bread is not enough to provide healthy levels of iodine for pregnant women and their unborn children in Australia, researchers say.
NEW YORK, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. healthcare inflation is projected to drop to 6.5 percent next year despite millions more newly insured Americans added to the system, consultants say.
ADELAIDE, Australia, June 18 (UPI) -- A baby's weight gain and increased head size in the first month of life is linked to a higher IQ at early school age, researchers in Australia said.
CLEVELAND, June 18 (UPI) -- Children exposed to violence before age 3 between their mother and her partner increases the likelihood of the child bullying in school, U.S. researchers say.
BOSTON, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. mothers-to-be exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were twice as likely to have a child with autism, researchers say.
BOSTON, June 18 (UPI) -- Officials at Boston Children's Hospital said they are recruiting subjects for the world's first pediatric hand transplant program.
BONN, Germany, June 18 (UPI) -- A viral load profile of a MERS-CoV infection indicates the SARS-like virus may need a different diagnostic approach than SARS, a German researcher says.
BETHESDA, Md., June 17 (UPI) -- A test may one day detect human papillomavirus to identify those of increased risk of HPV-related oral cancer as a result of oral sex, U.S. researchers say.
BOSTON, June 17 (UPI) -- There is more evidence luncheon meat, hot dogs, hamburger, steak and pork increase the risk of type 2 diabetes over the long-term, U.S. researchers say.
DURHAM, N.H., June 17 (UPI) -- Sibling bullying is not a benign rite of passage for children and adolescents, regardless of how severe or frequent, U.S. researchers say.
NEW YORK, June 17 (UPI) -- Obese adolescents are more likely than their normal-weight counterparts to have hearing loss, across all frequencies, U.S. researchers say.
By VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com | Blog
A new study shows that sibling bullying can be just a harmful to children as peer bullying.
By VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com | Blog
A retrospective study of the MERS coronavirus shows that the first known outbreak took place in Jordan and it infected 10 people, two of whom have died.
TORONTO, June 17 (UPI) -- HIV prevention programs for female sex workers in India reduce rates of other sexually transmitted diseases, University of Toronto researchers say.
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