The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect.

Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds

Despite more than a decade's worth of research showing that taking too much of a popular pain reliever can ruin the liver, the number of severe, unintentional poisonings from the drug is on the rise, a new study reports. The drug, acetaminophen, is best known under the brand name Tylenol. But many consumers don't realize that it is also found in widely varying doses in several hundred common cold remedies and combination pain relievers.

Poisonings From a Popular Pain Reliever Are on the Rise

The company's marketing materials describe the drink as a way to kick-start the morning for children as young as 4. The company Web site, adorned with a picture of an elementary school wrestler and a gymnast, says its drink can help a child "develop fully as a high-performance athlete" and fill nutritional gaps "in a sport that is physically and mentally demanding."

Ummm...

A Sports Drink for Children Is Jangling Some Nerves

Americans may have plenty of reasons to fear French fries. While they are one of the country's favorite foods, they are soaked with trans fats, loaded with sodium and full of simple carbs, the bad kind. And, it turns out, they are also full of a chemical called acrylamide, which is known to cause cancer in laboratory rats and mice.

California wants to put a "...contains a substance known to the state of California..." label on french fries and potato chips. At the rate they're going, before much longer, every object in the state of California will bear such a label :/

California Wants to Serve a Warning With Fries - New York Times

The use of drugs to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in younger adults more than doubled from 2000 to 2004, and spending on the drugs in the same age bracket, 20 to 44, more than quadrupled, a major prescription management company is reporting today.

It is said by some that adderall is preferable to cocaine.

Use of Attention-Deficit Drugs Is Found to Soar Among Adults - New York Times

Two brains are better than one. At least that is the rationale for the close - sometimes too close - relationship between the human body's two brains, the one at the top of the spinal cord and the hidden but powerful brain in the gut known as the enteric nervous system.

The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes

Walking to school may be the cure for teenage couch potatoes. A Scottish study demonstrates that the walkers are more active during the rest of the day than their peers who arrive by car, bus or train.

Not really surprising...

High Marks for a Walk to School

Top officials from three of the nation's premier public health agencies held an unusual news conference on Tuesday to say that childhood vaccines are life-saving medicines with no proven link to autism.

My impression is that the link between thimerosal and autism is a conspiracy theory ... but by the same token, it seems pretty idiotic to be injecting people with mercury.

No Vaccine-Autism Link, Parents Are Told

An organization that lobbies for increased regulation of the food and drug industries called on Wednesday for cigarette-style warnings on soft drinks to alert consumers that too much of the beverages can cause obesity and other health problems.

Heh.

Group Calls for Soft Drink Warnings

Last year, Mr. King was referred to Dr. Victor Aziz, a psychiatrist at St. Cadoc's Hospital in Wales. Dr. Aziz explained to him that there was a name for his experience: musical hallucinations.

Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod