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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A smoking ban in Marion County could become reality on Monday. That's when the full City-County Council votes on the plan. Meantime, the proposal got a big boost Sunday. It's cal...

People who used the calorie information available at fast-food chain restaurants in New York City bought 106 fewer calories' ...

Could reflexology become the next alternative medicine option for infertility? According to a news article at the UK DailyMail website, the IVF unit at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, England will be starting a two year clinical trial to find out. The article says that some women feel reflexology has helped them become pregnant, but as of today, no research has looked into the claims. This will be the first study on reflexology and infertility. Reflexology is an alternative treatment method that believes certain 'reflex' points on the feet and hands correspond to particular organs and systems in the body. For the trial, 150 women will be offered reflexology treatment instead of treatment with the fertility drug Clomid. The study sounds interesting, and I'm curious of what the results will be. It's good to see researchers looking into more alternative treatment methods. Right now, acupuncture is one of the few research studied alternative treatment methods for infertility, but there

Dean Reynolds takes us on a trip to the nation's lowest rate of obesity, Colorado and find out why everyone's so healthy.

According to a report in The Philadelphia Enquirer, GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of the antidepressant Paxil, must pay $2.5 million to settle a claim that the drug caused severe heart defects in 3-year-old Bensalem, PA boy. The verdict is the first in 600 similar cases, which allege that Glaxo knew Paxil causes birth defects, but hid that knowledge in order to protect their profits. Paxil generated about $942 million in sales last year, accounting for 2.1% of Glaxo's total revenue. The boy's mother, Michelle David, claimed that her son, Lyam Kilker, suffered from life-threatening heart defects because she had used the drug during her pregnancy. There was no previous history of heart defects in her family, according to David. By a 10-2 margin, the jury found Glaxo had 'negligently failed to warn' David's doctor about Paxil's risks and that the drug was a 'factual cause' of the boy's heart defects. They also found that Glaxo's handling of the drug was not 'outrageous', meaning tha

Growing up in the Queens section of New York City, Lisa Corrente always thought about being a doctor.

Air "sterilizers." A photon machine. Supplement pills to boost the immune system. Protective shampoos and face masks. Fake Tamiflu.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Grappling with low supplies of swine flu vaccines, President Felipe Calderon persuaded drug makers this week to sell him 30 million doses, while 1,000 Mexicans lined up for an experimental vaccine they hope can speed up supplies....

A ban on displaying tobacco products in stores is putting money from tills straight into the pockets of criminals, shopkeepers claimed today.Retailers Against Smuggling (RAS) said cigarettes sales hav...

President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency. Local residents may not have been aware of the declaration, but they were lined up at various schools around the city Saturday for a chance to get the H1N1 vaccine.