HEALTH

In an effort to reduce the rate of obesity in America, the FDA has approved yet another weight-loss pill. Qsymia, which was given the thumbs up on Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration, is considered by doctors to be the most safe and effective therapy in a new generation of anti-obesity pills.

Demi Lovato is one of many female stars who have recovered from an eating disorder. Here's a list of ten that have managed to do so.

A Colorado dentist and oral surgeon put his patients at risk for contracting HIV and hepatitis due to unsafe injection practices, and state officials are set to notify patients who saw Dr. Stephen Stein over a 12-year period to inform them of their risk.

Hundreds of thousands of Florida residents have signed a petition opposing the release of mutant mosquitoes that have been genetically engineered to kill off insects and curb disease.

Jessica Simpson is waging a war against her baby weight. Since giving birth to her first child, baby Maxwell, Simpson has been hitting the gym so that she can cash in on her $4 million contract with Weight Watchers. The 32-year-old singer had her first Weight Watchers weigh-in a couple days ago, and it seems like she has her work cut out for her.

Because the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes was found in the Mexicali Cheese Corp.'s finished product, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to neither consume nor purchase any of the company's products.

On an episode of TLC's reality show Strange Sex the network followed a 34-year-old man who breastfeeds from his wife to help with his Erectile Dysfunction. Jeff and Michelle, who did not want their last names revealed, began integrated breastfeeding into their sexual routine a few months after their first child was born.

The researchers say they were able to show that adolescent smoking would be reduced by 18 percent if smoking in PG-13 movies were largely eliminated.

Under its new proposed rules for the state program, doctors and clinic affiliates would be barred from promoting abortion services to patients.

There was no fiddler on the roof for a Florida home owner. Instead the St. Augustine resident had a hell raising naked man atop of his home.

A breastfeeding reality show? Television has possibly hit a new low. The people who brought you the fantastically bad reality shows Bridezillas and Dance Moms are now planning to shock the masses with their newest installment, Extreme Parenting, according to the Daily Mail.

A brave teenager, who got his arm ripped off by an alligator, has been joking about the incident with his family during his recovery process.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act would allow members of Congress to keep their government-subsidized health plans, something they will lose if they law is fully implemented as a result of a Republican-sponsored amendment to the bill.

The worst tuberculosis outbreak the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has seen in 20 years is occurring among Jacksonville, Florida's homeless population, the Palm Beach Post reports. But state officials did little to address it.

Three people have already died following a cholera outbreak in southeastern Cuba last week, with at least 50 more people contracting the life-threatening waterborne bacterial disease and around 1,000 people showing symptoms of infection.

Desai may have had the last laugh on all the naysayers; he lived to be 99 years old (in a country where the average life expectancy is only 64).

Jessica Simpson's deal with Weight Watchers is part of a growing trend in which celebs are cashing in on their weight loss goals. This is particularly true of new moms.

Health officials in Cambodia are actively investigating the cause of a mystery disease that has killed dozens of children across the country.

On Tuesday, doctors described the removal process of a 51-pound cancerous tumor in the stomach of a New Jersey woman who delayed getting treated because she didn't have health insurance.

Two days after welcoming a baby boy, 31-year-old Carla Murphy of Altoona, Pennsylvania smoked bath salts and attacked the maternity ward staff at Altoona Regional Hospital.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its first over-the-counter HIV test -- known as OraQuick -- which produces results in about 20 minutes.

After a judge blocked the state from defunding the family planning provider, lawmakers found a loophole in the decision.

The iconic Easter Island statues may not be the only mysteries on Rapa Nui - bacteria found in soil on the Polynesian territory may hold the key to curing Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center.

Following reports that a man ate his 40-pound family dog and another man in China chewed a woman's face, the latest zombie news is that a naked man high on the street drug bath salts threatened to eat police officers on a Georgia golf course.

All but one of the children died with rapid deterioration of respiratory function, the WHO said.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released in its World Drug Report 2012 this week data underlying a list of the top 12 cannabis-smoking countries in the world compiled by Business Insider. The good old U.S. of A. landed at No. 7.

As a heat wave rolls across most of the U.S., precautions should be taken to prevent heat-related conditions such as heat stroke, cramps, and sunburn.

Several red states could decide to opt out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, which would leave the very poor with little-to-no options for health coverage.

With Independence Day on the horizon, many Americans are looking for remedies to cure that inevitable hangover they will face on July 5 when expected back in the office. But thanks to researchers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Medlock, there is now a scientific cure for the aftermath of lapping up too much alcohol. In a new video, The Scientific Hangover Cure, that has gone viral, Moffit and Medlock of ASAPScience debunk some of the myths after drinking too much.