Health/Fitness :: Health

Case of the 8-Month Erection, Jury Sides with Defendant

Jun 18
A jury in Delaware says there was no medical negligence in a penile implant procedure that the patient said left him with an 8-month erection.

Don’t Take Vitamins, Doctor Warns in New Book

Wednesday Jun 19, 2013
Americans spend $34 billion a year on vitamins, supplements and alternative therapies. Now, a new book debunks treatments that may not really work. Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia discusses his book, "Do You Believe in Magic?"

New Survey: Gay Males & Females Know They’re Gay By 18

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
A new survey finds that gay males suspect they are gay earlier in life than gay females, and come out to someone earlier in life than gay females.

Healthcare Costs Continue Slowdown

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
A report Tuesday from accounting and consulting giant PwC projects lower overall growth in medical costs for next year, even as the economy gains strength and millions of uninsured people receive coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care law.

U.S. Smoking Rate Dips to 18 Percent

By Mike Stobbe | Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, according to a national health survey by the government.

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Study Finds

Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
A long-term study from the Mayo Clinic highlights the danger of sleep apnea and its connection to cardiac arrest. Dr. Carol Ash, director of sleep medicine at Meridian Health, talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about how to recognize the symptoms of

Can Hot Peppers Knock Out Cancer?

Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
Super hot peppers can make you sweat and tear up, but CBS News’ Mark Strassmann reports how they also may fight cancer.
Abortion rights protesters hold candles and pictures in a vigil for Savita Halappanavar outside Ireland’s government headquarters in Dublin

Dying Irish Woman Should Have Got Abortion

By Shawn Pogatchnik | Monday Jun 17, 2013
A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her odds of survival, an experts’ report concluded.
Researcher Abritee Dhal holds a test tube containing pieces of "decelluralized" piglet liver

To Ease Organ Shortage, Grow Them in a Lab?

By Malcolm Ritter | Monday Jun 17, 2013
What if you could grow a custom-made organ in a lab? Growing lungs and other organs for transplant is still in the future, but scientists are working toward that goal.
James Brown was given a one-way bus ticket in February to Northern Californi

Nevada ACLU Backs ’Patient Dumping’ Suit

By Ken Ritter | Friday Jun 14, 2013
A psychiatric patient has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Nevada against the practice of sending problem patients to other states.
Arizona House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden speaks on the floor during a recess prior to a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13

Arizona Gov. Brewer Secures Medicaid Expansion

By Cristina Silva | Friday Jun 14, 2013
After months of stalled negotiations, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer won her fight to extend health care to 300,000 more low-income Arizonans.