People with diabetes are at high risk of developing a number of adverse health effects, including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and premature mortality. However, mounting evidence suggests that increasing physical activity is vital to improving diabetics long-term health. And now a new study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, provides further support for the beneficial effects of such activity.

For those of us who had the tragic, frustrating experience of caring for AIDS patients in the last two decades of the 20th century, advances announced at last month s International AIDS Conference in Washington were nothing short of miraculous.

Recent data published in the journal Fertility and Sterility indicate that an increasing number of American women are turning to intrauterine devices (IUDs) and hormonal implants as their preferred method of birth control.

In response to recent reports addressing the alarmingly high rates of early elective deliveries, a new study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology found that hospitals implementing quality improvement programs can reverse this troubling trend.

Over the last decade, ACSH has been quite pleased to report on the steady decline in cigarette smoking, especially among adolescents. However, as we re too frequently reminded, not all the news on this front is good. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that, while cigarette smoking rates decline, a growing number of Americans are turning to cigars and pipes instead.

A potential breakthrough in treatment for venous leg ulcers has given us a promising look into the future. The new treatment is called spray-on-skin, and a recent study in The Lancet finds that it accelerates healing time as well as greatly reducing the size of the ulcer.

A new mother is faced with many important issues and must make key decisions while still in the fog of post-partum joy and pain, and confusion. One such decision is whether to breastfeed or hit the bottle: infant formula.

If there is one medical area where drug development has been hampered by extreme caution, it is obesity. Despite the "epidemic" of obesity and its associated type II diabetes we hear so much about, new weight loss candidates have been handled by pharmaceutical companies and the FDA as if they were Kryptonite.

Following his recent blog post on Medical Progress Today, which considers the newly approved weight-loss drug Qsymia, ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom took part in a podcast discussion to further discuss the drug. You can listen to the podcast here.

A new study, published online in Clinical Endocrinology News, shows that, contrary to popular belief, a declining level of testosterone does not necessarily go hand-in-hand with aging in men. More likely, say the study authors, low testosterone is an indication of a health problem.