BOSTON — The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to impose strict new rules on users aimed at protecting children from online predators.
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PITTSFIELD — After exploring several health insurance scenarios over the last three months, a committee of city officials has found that Pittsfield could have saved $5.6 million this fiscal year if it had joined the state's insurance pool.
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"The single thing that comes close to a magic bullet, in terms of its strong and universal benefits, is exercise," Frank Hu, epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, said in the Harvard Magazine.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — State government spent nearly $10 million providing psychiatric drugs to more than 6,000 children in a six-month period last year, in a mental health system that an advocacy group yesterday labeled "out of control."
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ATLANTA — More than three out of four moms now breast-feed their infants, the highest rate in the United States in at least 20 years, according to a a government report released yesterday.
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Q: Are colorfully feathered male birds the target for predators — that is, colorful in order to draw attention away from the less colorful female birds?
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As with cholesterol levels, the concept of a normal blood pressure has fallen strikingly as doctors learn what it takes to preserve good health.
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WASHINGTON — A panel of medical advisers — mostly eye doctors wearing glasses — listened to tales of woe and wonder yesterday from people who sought to get rid of their specs through Lasik surgery.
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GREAT BARRINGTON — It's the last day of the Healthcare Exploration Internship at Fairview Hospital, and the scene in the Simulation Lab is one of controlled chaos: A mannequin patient is having a major heart attack.
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