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Price is the primary factor in customers choosing a company — except in health care, where personal experience with doctors or hospitals is more important. Consumers who have become accustomed to the customer-focused practices adopted by hotels, banks and retailers increasingly are judging physicians by those standards. Medicare and other …

Cholesterol levels have improved slightly among American youth over the past two decades, according to new government data. From 1988 to 2010, the rate of high total cholesterol dropped from 11% to 8% in children ages 6 to 19. The levels of LDL cholesterol and fats in the blood also …

Middle-aged working women who spend long hours hunched over their desks are more likely to gain greater weight, say Australian researchers. The study analyzed the impact of job status and the number of hours worked on the weight of middle-aged women and found those who worked in excess of 35 …

Sleep behavior affects body weight control and sleep loss has ramifications not only for how many calories we consume but also for how much energy we burn off, a new study has revealed. Researchers have now found that sleep deprivation increased how hungry participants felt and also raised the amount …

Microwave ovens and other appliances may be increasing the odds that your child will be overweight or obese later, a new study said. According to researchers, magnetic fields from these appliances during pregnancy can increase risk of the baby growing up to be overweight or obese by almost 69%. These …

FDA OK’s New Use for Eye Drug "Lucentis" for the treatment of diabetic macular edema.

Two-thirds of severely obese children already have at least one heart disease risk factor, Dutch researchers found. Of the 255 children between the ages of 2 and 18 whose cardiovascular risk factors were available, 56% had hypertension, 14% had high blood glucose, and 54% had low HDL cholesterol, according to …

Most of those soda drinkers average 2.6 glasses/day with 28% of drinkers consuming one glass and 20% drinking two or more glasses. According to the Gallup consumption poll, soda drinkers not only consume more sugar, they also tend to list themselves as overweight but the study found almost no weight …

A research team believes it has found the answer in fossilized feces. The prehistoric diet of people living in the Southwest appears to have led to the development of genes that store fat, called "thrifty genes." The new study suggests these genes developed in Native Americans because of what they …

FDA Approves 2nd Weight Loss Product See this week’s Item #3, FDA Approves Phentermine-Topiramate Combo for Weight Loss.