MEDICINE

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.

Kate Middleton is beginning to gain attention for something other than her yellow dress, brown locks, or fashion-icon status. Her thin waist line is beginning to take notice, sparking rumors that the Duchess is anorexic, or on the verge of being so.

Spanish surgeons carried out the world's first double-leg transplant on Monday, giving new limbs to an accident victim who lost both.

Last Friday, Janet Johnson, age 39, gave birth to her 16 pound, one ounce son JaMichael Brown at a hospital in East Texas.

What's in a foreskin? According to many experts in the field of sexually transmitted diseases, a lot.

A Texan woman gave birth to a 16-pound baby late last week, amid fears that the state is grappling with childhood obesity.

A baby born in Texas Friday weighed in at 16 pounds, 1 ounce.

A sensitive debate in San Francisco over a possible ban on circumcision has brought the salacious Foreskin Man comics back to the public light

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced three new initiatives to help states improve the quality of care and lower its costs for about 9 million Medicare and Medicaid enrollees.

In the unprecedented San Francisco circumcision ban campaign, much attention is being paid to the cartoon that the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups are calling anti-Semitic. But what of the medical ramifications?