MEDICINE

Burger King, IHOP, Chili's, and some 15,000 other restaurants have joined forces to offer more nutritional options on its menus. The measure is in part directed at fighting childhood obesity by offering more healthy options on menus, but the main question is will it make a difference?

Male anorexia, or manorexia, is becoming more prevalent as men aspire to images of male beauty that are well-toned and fit.

A Washington man accused of videotaping his sexual assaults of young boys is being allowed to continue watching the footage -- from the prison where is awaiting trial.

Catherine Kieu Becker, 48, of Garden Grove, Calif., is accused of drugging her estranged husband, cutting off his penis, and grinding it up in a garbage disposal before alerting police.

Even if you are as perfect as a parent can be, if your children are severely obese they should be taken away, opines a new commentary.

A new report details the scope of America's ongoing obesity epidemic, finding that adult obesity rose in 16 states without diminishing in a single state.

Men are more likely than women to be diagnosed and die of cancer, according to government research and analysis of 36 different types of tumors and blood cancers that affect both sexes.

A new study revealed that men have a higher chance of dying from certain types of cancer than women.

Two new studies in Africa have found out that, infection with Aids virus can be prevented by daily pills in heterosexual men and women.

Parents of incredibly obese children should lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight, a new commentary suggests.

In 1993, Lorena Bobbitt famously cut off her husband's penis and was found not guilty

More men die from cancer than women, according to a study published Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

A burly caped crusader named 'Foreskin Man,' produced out of San Francisco's contentious debate over whether to ban circumcisions, has provoked allegations of anti-Semitism bubbling beneath the sensitive topic.

A new study suggests that common cold treatments may indeed cause people to feel better -- if they believe they will.

UK fashion giant Topshop recently pulled photos of what international media called a painfully thin 18-year-old Australian model Codie Young.

The first review of its kind published on Monday showed a direct connection to smoking while pregnant and birth defects, like clefts, clubfoot and other deformations, although one in five pregnant Americans continue to smoke, TIME said.

The British tabloid The Sun made it clear Tuesday afternoon it did not obtain the medical records of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's son.

A new study published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found men have a higher mortality rate for a vast majority of cancers than women do.

A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea was found to be resistant to antibiotics, international researchers say. According to the CDC, more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year and less than half of these infections are reported to CDC.

Tiger Woods was a one-time client of a Canadian physician charged with injecting elite athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. The attorney for a key witness in the case of Dr. Anthony Galea says Woods did not receive performance enhancing drugs from the doctor. But one can't help but wonder.

Health officials say gonorrhea is showing resistance to the antibiotics used to treat it, causing concerns over a gonorrhea superbug outbreak. The resistant gonorrhea strain has not be found in the United states, but CDC officials say there are signs it could happen.