When paired with diet and education, a mobile app may help people lose weight, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Northwestern University studied 69 adults who participated in a yearlong weight loss program. Half of the participants used the mobile app to augment their program, while the other half did not.

A new method of prostate cancer testing could potentially put an end to painful prostate biopsies that often miss the actual tumor.
The small size of the prostate gland makes it very difficult to reach, forcing doctors to do a so-called blind biopsy, in which multiple chunks of tissue are removed. A doctor can only hope that one of those chunks is a piece of the tumor that will allow them to determine the state of the cancer. But often, this is not the case.

We re facing a critical shortage of new antibiotics that may lead to an inability to practice modern medicine, according to Dr. Carl F. Nathan, chairman of the department of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He explains, in a New York Times op-ed, how economic and scientific factors are to blame.

According to Owen Paterson, environment secretary in Britain, the health scares surrounding genetically modified crops are complete nonsense. He even goes a step further in saying that Britain should be emphatically looking at their cultivation.

Although the legal age for purchasing tobacco products is 18, everyday more than 3,800 pre-teens and adolescents ages 12 to 17 smoke their first cigarette, among whom 1,000 go on to become addicted smokers. In response to these disturbing figures, researchers explored the effect of behavior-based interventions on preventing smoking initiation among young people who have not become regular smokers, as well as behavior-based interventions aimed at promoting cessation.

It may be hard to swallow after over two decades of increasing obesity rates, but for the first time, some American cities are beginning to see declines in these numbers. Although the declines are small, they are significant in showing that some of the policies and measures taken to address this unsolvable epidemic may actually be working.

According to a new report from several public health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and the American Cancer Society, in 2013 states will spend less than two percent of their annual tobacco tax and revenues from the Master Settlement Agreement to combat smoking. The report states that from the approximately 25.7 billion dollars states collected from the 1998 MSA, only 460 million dollars will go to smoking prevention and treatment programs.

Last year, chlorinated Tris a fire retardant chemical was added to California s ever-expanding list of carcinogens and reproductive toxins According to the state s Proposition 65, products containing a certain level of chemicals on this lengthy list must carry a warning label.

A lower dose and shorter course of adjuvant radiation for localized breast cancer cuts down on toxicity without raising recurrence risk, researchers reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Expectant mothers will soon be able to know quite a bit more about the unborn child they re carrying maybe more than they need to know. New gene tests that go far beyond traditional chromosomal evaluation in looking for genetic abnormalities are on the horizon. Genetic microarray analysis promises to detect everything from autism to club foot, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.