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As the death toll from H1N1 continues to rise especially among children and teens, doctors are racing to figure out why certain patients get so sick, so fast. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

Exercise Bulimia is an eating disorder in which a person uses excessive and compulsive exercise instead of vomiting. Cali Carlin reports on a California fitness trainer who almost exercised herself to death.

A major report confirms what health officials have long believed; indoor smoking bans reduce the risk of heart attacks among non-smokers. Smoking bans have remained a hard sell among business owners and lawmakers who are still debating whether such bans are the anger of smoking customers.

Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) Non smokers can suffer heart attacks even if they are exposed briefly to cigarette smoke, says a new report of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

The Post and Courier recently reported that the 'Help is Here Express' bus tour visited the Piggly Wiggly at 445 Meeting Street in Charleston to help the uninsured and financially struggling learn about programs that provide free or nearly free prescription medications.

Every day, I hand-pick news items, blog posts, and articles from around the Web of interest to parents of children with special needs and put them in my Today's News and Views folder at the top of the Parenting Special Needs homepage. Here are a few of the stories that have caught my eye this week: The Special Education Law Blog shares two stories of school violence involving students with special needs. In the first, a campus police officer shot a 16-year-old with autism five times and killed him after the student stabbed the officer. In the second, a 16-year-old student with mental-health issues stabbed and killed his special-education teacher; the teacher had previously expressed concern over the student's potential for violence, but there seemed nowhere else to put the boy. The Great Falls Tribune reports on criminal charges brought against two special-education aides who regularly 'took an autistic 14-year-old student to a classroom sink and held his head under water after he do

By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. 'Flies have the ability to learn, but the circuits that instruct memory formation were unknown,' said Gero Miesenböck of the University of Oxford. 'We were able to pin the essential component down to 12 cells.

NEARLY one in five elderly patients has food or water left out of reach in hospital, and many who need help with meals do not receive it, according to a new report.