An Australian study has found that children are more likely to be obese if they are from low-income families, and the risk is increased further if they are from particular racial background.

The Queensland Medical Board has decided to impose new bans on Gold Coast obesity surgeon Russell Broadbent.

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death due to infectious disease in the world today.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease caused by mutations in the CFTR gene.

Cancerous tumors are wildly unfavorable environments. Struggling for oxygen and nutrients while being bombarded by the body's defense systems, tumor cells in fact require sophisticated adaptations to survive and grow.

Life & style: Dina Rabinovitch, who has breast cancer, on how it feels to be a terminally ill mother.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked, Mae West supposedly said. These are words of wisdom for genome data-miners of today.

Scientists believe they have found an explanation for a puzzling and serious complication of West Nile virus infection.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released consumer and industry advisories regarding safe sources of puffer fish.

A new method of constructing artificial plant chromosomes from small rings of naturally occurring plant DNA can be used to transport multiple genes at once into embryonic plants where they are expressed, duplicated as plant cells divide, and passed on

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approved age range for Menactra, a bacterial meningitis vaccine, to include children ages 2 to 10 years.

PTC124, an oral medication that changes the way muscle cells interpret genetic information, holds promise as a treatment for some patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the Muscular Dystrophy Association ( http://www.mda.org/ ) announced today.

Mayo Clinic has clarified the methods of diagnosis and optimal management of a rare and little-understood blood vessel disease of the brain and spinal cord that often leads to stroke or death.

In the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown was never able to kick the football, fly a kite properly or lead a baseball team.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved doripenem injection, 500 mg intravenous infusion, for the treatment of complicated urinary tract and intra-abdominal infections.

Cryptococcus neoformans is a major cause of fungal meningitis in predominantly immunocomprised individuals.

Many people, including significant proportions of active duty military personnel and veterans, suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often in conjunction with other injuries or illnesses.

The study, "Influence of early day care exposure on total IgE levels through age 3 years" can be found in the Articles in Press section of the JACI Web site, http://www.jacionline.org. The JACI is the peer-reviewed journal of the American

A revolutionary, new biomaterial, developed at the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials (NJCBM) at Rutgers University, has moved from the lab bench to field testing in record time.

Your teen is moody. He's not doing well in school. He wants to be left alone. Does he have a learning disability? Depression? Or maybe he's just a normal teen?