HEALTH & WELLBEING

Sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of a sad-sack Raymond Carver story: when female fruit flies reject their sexual advances, the males are driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far more than comparable, sexually satisfied male flies.

Study Highlights: -Overweight and obese adults using an electronic device that provided daily messages did better at staying on diet and exercise programs. -Those using the device were more successful in adhering to five treatment factors for weight loss.

Patients who are treated for depression through a new collaborative care model after undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures showed improvements in mood and health and incurred lower health care costs, according to a University of Pittsburgh-led study that was presented today at the American Psychosomatic Society’s annual meeting.

Health campaign groups in Australia launched on Friday the independent Alcohol Advertising Review Board. The main task of the new board would be to name and shame alcohol firms with advertising campaigns that violate international alcohol advertising regulations.

A Wellington teacher died in her sleep on Monday from an undiagnosed brain tumour, Dominion Post reports. Thirty-nine year old Lorena Henriquez, a single mother and a positively popular teacher among her students, had felt flu-like symptoms for three days before succumbing to cancer while sleeping.

While the most advanced computers today can perform the most complicated tasks and calculations than average humans but computers still fall short in learning ability. However scientists are looking to remedy this by learning from "the greatest learning machines in the universe": human babies.

A new study released on Wednesday warned of the growing menace of diabetes among young Australians. The report by Diabetes Australia said one in three of young Aussies will likely acquire the chronic ailment, which has no known cure.

If you have ever wondered if there was a real fountain of youth or some deep, dark secret to lasting good looks, think about how you passed on those fruits and veggies when you were younger that your mom kept trying to get you to eat.

More than a dozen families in New Jersey were shocked to learn recently that some of the supposed fluoride pills they had received from a CVS/pharmacy in Chatham were actually tamoxifen pills, a chemotherapy drug used to treat breast cancer.

There is a healthy way to snack, which means choosing healthy options and forgoing late-night snacks, according to the Mayo Clinic.ng is the key to keeping weight off — but only if you eat the right kind of snacks.

Many people report that hypnotherapy works: Here's how.

Incensed by the idea that Iowans might soon be able to make their own food choices when it comes to fresh dairy products, Daniel H. Gervich, M.D., a board-certified infectious diseases and critical care medicine doctor from Des Moines, Iowa, recently declared that feeding raw milk to babies is "child endangerment."

A program that helps obese patients improve healthy behaviors is associated with modest weight loss and improved blood pressure control in a high-risk, low-income group, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Duke University, Harvard University and other institutions.

Out of the $60 billion annual cost of workplace injuries across Australia, about half are due to overwork and stress.

U.S. Surgeon General's Office releases first report on teen smoking in almost two decades.

Cleaning feels great when it's finished, but how do you motivate yourself to start?

Hospitals face a perennial lack of organ donors that many patients die waiting for kidneys, hearts and livers but an international group of researchers may have found a way to solve this by proposing that doctors could grow fully-functioning organs for their patients.Growing New Organs Could Solve Donor Shortage, Doctors Says

The outbreak of hepatitis A affecting nine Auckland schools is now under control, but the kids in the affected zones are not yet entirely safe, according to the region’s public health service.

California is now in the business of torturing senior citizens who advocate real food.

Thanks to the extraordinarily cruel and vindictive actions of the LA County and Ventura County District Attorneys' offices, California is rapidly losing its reputation as a state that promotes a healthy lifestyle.

New study finds 'huge increase' in the number of cavities in preschoolers.

For women marching through middle age, belly fat seems a fact of life. However, recent studies on belly fat have revealed that belly fat may no longer be common only among women in their 50's. Certain factors like stress and a sedentary lifestyle have resulted in a rise in obesity and a growing concern about weight loss.

Alaska Native people have a suicide rate more than three times greater than white Americans.

This study is the first to demonstrate that the biological mechanism that keeps the HIV virus hidden and unreachable by current antiviral therapies can be targeted and interrupted in humans, providing new hope for a strategy to eradicate HIV completely.

In the war against obesity, one's own fat cells may seem an unlikely ally, but new research from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests ordinary fat cells can be reengineered to burn calories.

If you have ever seen the famous 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you likely recall several disturbing scenes in which mental health patients are given frontal-lobe lobotomies, or the iconic scene where actor Jack Nicholson's character undergoes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

Close contact with animals puts devoted pet owners at greater risk of contracting life-threatening bacterial infections.

Pregnant Women on Antidepressants Less Likely to Breastfeed

While eyestrain and headaches are a problem for some, we think it's the potential for germs that really should concern you.