Robert Wood

One in 10 Floridians has diabetes, a "disturbing" trend revealed in the nation's fat report last week. Though Florida ranks as the 29th-most-obese state in the country, the Sunshine State is No. 10 for diabetes. It's a distinction that comes with a...

DAYTON, Ohio — La incidencia de embriaguez producida por el alcohol, de violencia relacionada con el alcohol y de conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol está aumentando a una velocidad alarmante entre los adolescentes. Si los adolescentes...

The makers of Haagen-Dazs ice cream, Chef Boyardee canned pasta, Oreo cookies and Snickers bars are joining forces to combat ??? obesity. That???s right. Nestle USA, ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods Inc. and Mars, Inc. ??? along with the Coca-Cola Co.,......

Posting calorie information on menus is often cited as an important tool in fighting obesity, but a study published today shows that at least in its initial stages, it doesn't have as big an effect as many health officials hoped.......

Posting calorie information on menus is often cited as an important tool in fighting obesity, but a study published today shows that at least in its initial stages, it doesn't have as big an effect as many health officials had......

People are consuming fewer calories at many New York fast-food restaurants. The mean number of calories purchased per customer decreased at nine of 13 fast-food or coffee chains, according to a study presented today by researchers from the New York......

You can play music on the iPhone with the Leaf Trombone app. Researchers believe they can come up with a similar app for smokers to help them quit smoking. Credit: Peter DaSilva/Los Angeles Times .In a few years if you see a person nervously blowing on...

A new Associated Press poll, done by Stanford University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides more evidence that the public wants comprehensive healthcare reform but rejects just about everything that implies....

Cases of community-acquired MRSA infection, the potentially deadly superbug that is resistant to most antibiotics, are increasing and spreading rapidly into hospitals as well, researchers reported today. MRSA -- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...

Even as states pull in billions of dollars in tobacco settlement money – part of which is typically used to fund anti-smoking programs – they're slashing the amount they spend on such programs by 15%. Altogether, states will spend $567.5......

Today's telephone recording transcripts, plain text version: DATE: 11/3/2008 9:23 p.m. ACTIVITY: Rod Blagojevich home line incoming call. SESSION: 162 SPEAKERS: Rod Blagojevich, Robert Greenlee GREENLEE: ...pressed by everybody involved. At least the SEIU...

by Bay Fang On the first day that Russia struck Georgian troops in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, the Bush administration said it was working actively with its European partners to seek an end to hostilities. Four days later,......