"The 'I' Diet" is a diet book with a difference. Like many other books in the weight-loss genre, it features eating plans, nutritional advice and recipes. But the new paperback — previously published in 2008 as "The Instinct Diet" and updated with new material — offers something more: practical strategies for changing eating habits. " [...]

Have you been following the strange story of the heroin addicts in Scotland who have been contracting anthrax infections? Two more addicts are being treated, according to a report we picked up on Promed, a clearinghouse for infectious  disease news. Since December, 10 people have died in Scotland, all drug users, among about two dozen [...]

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it will require a new black-box warning on the label of the popular anti-clotting drug Plavix to indicate that some patients do not metabolize the drug properly and may receive little benefit from it. The warning indicates that the drug is dangerous only in the sense that it [...]

Those cards you swipe at grocery stores — sure, they'll shave some money off your bill and give stores all kinds of info about your food and personal-toiletry preferences — well, now they're a public health tool. With shoppers' permission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used purchases by people who got sick [...]

Remember those studies showing that Baby Einstein DVDs are more likely to turn Junior into a Baby Homer Simpson? You know, the studies that helped the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood persuade Walt Disney Co. to offer full refunds to parents who were under the impression that the company’s videos were supposed to be educational? [...]