HEALTH

Wichita, Kansas native Dr. Mila Means, a physician trying to open an abortion clinic in Wichita, received a letter kindly advising her to check under her car every morning recently. The letter went on to say, because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Arizona Department of Health said Friday that a man who recently traveled to Germany was infected by the German E. coli outbreak. The man died from kidney complications.

Navel swabs of volunteers threw up nearly 600 new strains of bacteria

Who would have thought that your mother or grandmother is all about sex?

Obesity is on the rise with no end in sight. A Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study showed that adult obesity rose in 16 US states and declined in none in the past year.

A study released by the Ministry of Health revealed today that approximately one of three new HIV infections in China are found in homosexual men. HIV was present in almost 20 percent of men in some south-western cities on the mainland, indicating that HIV and poverty living in a big city are positively related.

A study was released by The Kinsey Institute of Indiana indicated that men enjoy cuddling and hugging more than woman. The 1,009 couples surveyed were middle-aged or older and have been in their relationship for 25 or more years.

The federal government said Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should be considered armed and dangerous like heroin. Marijuana use was recently approved my many states including California to treat medical conditions including chronic pain.

The report indicated that all U.S. state obesity rates were below 15% twenty years ago, suggesting that we are doing this to ourselves. Obesity rates have increased by greater than 90% in 10 states and have doubled in seven.

James Thomas Hackemer, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, was riding the Ride of Steel roller coaster in the front row when he fell off to his untimely death.

Older women just want to have sex, according to a recent release by the Kinsey Institute, whereas men like to cuddle.

Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of heroin, which is casting deathly shadows over the lives of thousands of Russia's drug addicts. It has a reptilian name because the users' skin starts developing crocodile-like unpleasant scales, over repeated use. And that is arguably the least this deadly drug can do to your body. The scales would give way to decaying sores and gray skin. The flesh would soon start to degenerate and would peel away leaving bones exposed....

Well, the treatment for cancer is nearing, if the latest findings from University of Southampton have to be believed.

According to a recent release by the Kinsey Institute, men just want to cuddle and woman have sex on the brain.

Yao Ming is calling it quits. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise for the oft-injured All-Star.

Despite what they might like for you to believe, men are actually more interested in cuddling than women, according to a recent study.

An annual report F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the country, soaring up to 34.4 percent, while other states, such as, Colorado - who scored the lowest in obese residents in the report with a rate of 19.8 percent - remain steady.

Surgeons at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. The unidentified male patient was implanted with a new lab-made windpipe seeded with his own stem cells.

U.S. adolescent birth rate declines for second year in a row to 20.1 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17 in 2009.

A man who had a cancer-stricken windpipe can now anticipate a normal life expectancy after doctors replaced that windpipe with a lab-made organ freeing him of the cancer.

In a major breakthrough in the medical sciences, first ever Windpipe grown in laboratory through stem cell technology has been transplanted successfully in a cancer patient in Sweden.

It's true what they say - hand size is a good indicator of what a man has going on below the belt.

During the waning hours of testimony that led to the sentencing of Casey Anthony murder trial to four years for lying to investigators. Orange County Court Judge Belvin Perry says she can go free in late July or early August because she has already served nearly three years in jail and has had good behavior.

A report released on Thursday showed that over the past 15 years, seven states have doubled their rate of obesity and ten states have doubled their rate of diabetes.

A survey of four locations in Fukushima city, outside the nuclear evacuation zone, has showed soil radiation above levels that has prompted evacuation of pregnant women and children from the city.

Researches have found that Chantix, the popular Pfizer drug that helps people quit smoking, may instead give people heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems.

British fertility researchers developed a more accurate way to predict which pregnancies have more chance to end in miscarriage and say it could help doctors target a treatment to women.

Deaths from colon cancer continue to drop across the United States — in all but one state, health officials said Tuesday.

A study showed an increase in the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular cases among smokers who take the drug Chantix to help them quit.