For the third straight year in a row, Washington, D.C., has been named “America’s Fittest City.” The annual ranking from the American College of Sports Medicine and the Anthem Foundation measures and compares the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the country based on aspects like physical activity levels, rates of…

The Hepatitis B virus, or HBV, is known as a particularly unattractive disease. Not only does it cause nausea and jaundice, a yellowing of the skin, but it can also lead to serious health issues like liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. It’s estimated that some 850,000 Americans have HBV, and…

Having a child is a priority in and of itself. That’s why many working women understand the feeling of wanting a child — just not right now — and wanting to be able to better plan for one in the future. And when it comes to fertility, it can be…

San Francisco recently became the first city in the nation to mandate public safety warnings about the health effects of sugar. Beginning July 25, publicly-displayed advertisements around the city for sugar-sweetened beverages must include a warning label that takes up 20% of the display space. San Francisco U.S. District Judge…

Indianapolis news channel WTHR proved fitness can be fun at the WTHR Health and Fitness Expo during the weekend of April 23 and 24. Typically, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Orlando are home to about half of the largest 200 exhibition shows in the United States, but that April weekend, Indianapolis…

A new method to treat insulin producing cells has been released to treat those who have type 1 diabetes. Researchers at Harvard University and Washington University School of Medicine found a way to produce insulin-secreting cells using the patient’s own stem cells. The team of researchers carried out tests on…