The Emergence of Endocrinology as a Medical Science
Overview
As scientific knowledge increased, our concepts of the human body have gone through a transformation. The nineteenth-century "Concep...
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Organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Saturday rejected five models as being too thin to appear in this year's event.
The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, had decided e...
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The organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Sunday rejected five out of 69 fashion models as being too thin to appear in this year's event, acting on a decision to bar underweight women fr...
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Two parolees with long criminal records were arraigned Tuesday on charges alleging they broke into a prominent doctor's Connecticut home, forced a hostage to withdraw cash from a bank and set fire ...
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MADRID, Nov 15 (Reuters) - World Anti-Doping Agency chief
Dick Pound said on Thursday he wanted an audit of all doping
tests that U.S. sprinter Marion Jones had passed before she
admitted in Octob...
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A South Carolina woman accused of promising couples she would be their surrogate mother has been charged with bilking at least six people out of $14,000, police said Thursday.Jessica O'Donnell, 28,...
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MILAN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Italian children are getting
worryingly fatter as they ditch a Mediterranean diet, rich in
fruit and vegetable, for high-calorie snacks and beverages,
Italian studies say...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Diets high in protein may be
the best way to keep hunger in check, U.S. researchers said
Thursday in a study that offers insight into how diets work. They found that protein do...
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A woman has given birth to what is believed to be Canada's first set of sextuplets, and the infants were in listed in fair condition, hospital officials said.The newborns _ each weighing only 1 pou...
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The controversy surrounding GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia grew Wednesday as a medical expert told Congress that executives threatened to sue when he first raised questions in 1999 about t...
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Two men with long rap sheets were on parole when they broke into a doctor's home, strangled his wife and killed the couple's two daughters in a fire they set to cover their tracks, authorities said...
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