By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: August 22, 2009
As you pack for college, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told all its students in a recent e-mail message, don’t forget a thermometer, some over-the-counter cold remedies and a week’s worth of food.

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By Georgiann Caruso
CNN Medical Producer

(CNN) — Matthew Sanchez had rarely seen his father cry. But when Rudjard Hayes looked at the X-rays of his son’s spine after a high school football accident, he held his wife close and broke down, not knowing that his son could see him.

Matthew Sanchez, now 20, [...]

By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking.
Jack Smith, head of the Pentagon’s office of clinical and program policy, says he will [...]

The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care in Germany is warning mothers that rushing off to shed pregnancy pounds while trying to copy celebrities is a dangerous incident.
Ideally it must take at least six months or up to one year for women to shed the weight they put on in pregnancy. Trying to [...]

By Robert Preidt
Thursday, July 2, 2009
THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer’s disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or [...]

Sun damage never goes away so protect kids from the start, expert says
FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Most people, especially children, love to be out in the summer sun, but parents should remember that no tan is a good tan.
“Remember that if you form a tan, you will have ultraviolet radiation damage,” Dr. Alfred [...]

By Tara Parker-Pope
Celiac disease, a serious immune system reaction to the protein in wheat and other grains, is far more common today than it was 50 years ago, a new study shows.
People who have celiac disease can’t tolerate gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye or barley. Life with celiac is difficult because gluten [...]

By Madison Park
CNN

(CNN) — Don Lerman set a record by eating seven sticks of salted butter in five minutes. During six years of competitive eating, he gained 100 pounds.

Takeru Kobayashi has enthralled and puzzled audiences for years at the annual Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest.

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Dominick Cardo, known as “The Doginator” [...]

Many Teens and Young Adults With HIV Don’t Know They Have the Disease, CDC Says
By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
June 26, 2009 — About 50,000 adolescents and young adults aged 13 to 24 were living with the virus that causes AIDS in 2006, but nearly half of [...]

Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according to the study “Changing Behavior Risk for Pregnancy Among High School Students in the United States, 1991�,” by John [...]