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(University of Oregon) Consumer-driven health plans -- hailed since their inception in 2000 as a tool to help control costs -- are resulting in members forgoing care and discontinuing drugs to treat chronic medical problems, according to two newly published studies.

(Society for Neuroscience) The following articles are featured in the July 9 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience: Dopamine transporter efflux in ADHD; Learning-induced gray-matter plasticity; Preventing programmed cell death in vivo; and Neurological effects of folate deficiency.

(Kaiser Permanente) Study of nearly 1,700 participants shows that keeping a food diary can double a person's weight loss. The study, which will appear in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine, found that the best predictors of weight loss were how frequently food diaries were kept and how many support sessions the participants attended. Those who kept daily food records lost twice as much weight as those who kept no records.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some children as young as two should be screened for high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other heart disease risks, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Keeping a food diary -- a detailed account of what you eat and drink and the calories it packs -- is a powerful tool in helping people lose weight, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Two federal policies have significantly reduced drunken-driving deaths, a new study finds.

Does it matter which runner is closest to the starter's pistol at the beginning of a race? It just might, a new study says.

So far, large clinical trials focused on the benefits of screening for breast cancer have ignored the booming population of elderly women.

Thinking of Tim Russert helped me realize I was having a heart attack in time to get help.

Ministers in Scotland plan to close a "legal loophole" in the GP contract that allows private firms to run surgeries.