| |  Study: Doctors May Be Confused About Cervical Cancer Screening
By Tara Thean The U.S. has arguably the world's best medical tools available — especially when it comes to cancer screening, which has significantly reduced the mortality rates of serious killers such as breast and colorectal cancer in the last few years. But [...] |  Sex and Spicy Food: Half of Women Try Folklore to Induce Labor
By Bonnie Rochman By the time a pregnant woman draws near her due date or breezes by it, with no sign of baby, she may get a little desperate. What to do? Many women turn to folklore. Myriad are the well-intentioned people who [...] |  Vote for Me for President! I Have Many Kids
By Belinda Luscombe With the arrival of Jon Huntsman, father of seven, into the Republican presidential primary race, the field is beginning to resemble a Holiday Inn on Kids-Stay-Free Weekend. There are big families all over the joint. And it's not just that [...] |  Driving While Buzzed: No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe Behind the Wheel
By Meredith Melnick The blood-alcohol limit in the U.S. is 0.08% — a cutoff that implies that any blood-alcohol content (BAC) south of 0.08% is safe, or at least not illegal. But a new study published in the journal Addiction suggests that there [...] |  Most Teens Still Down Sugary Drinks Daily, But They Also Drink Water and Milk
By Meredith Melnick |  Deaths From Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease on the Rise, U.N. Says
By Associated Press Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease, which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, according to U.N. estimates [...] |  FDA Unveils Final Cigarette Warning Labels
By Meredith Melnick The Food and Drug Administration unveiled on Tuesday nine graphic warning labels that will be required on all cigarette packaging and advertising in the U.S. by Oct. 22, 2012. |  Introducing the Healthland Podcast
By John Cloud Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Healthland Podcast! Click this little arrow for a lively, off-the-cuff discussion of the week's health/science news: Host John Cloud, senior writer at TIME and Healthland, leads the conversation with Sora Song, the editor [...] |  Face-Off: Botox Vs. Dysport. Which Works Better?
By Meredith Melnick Like Kleenex and Band-Aid, Botox is a brand name that's become indistinguishable from the product. But in a new randomized study, Botox's newer competitor, Dysport, appeared to have the edge in smoothing wrinkles. Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) was approved by the Food [...] |  Primary Care Without Insurance: Do Flat-Fee Medical Plans Work?
By Anita Hamilton Monica Vigna-Bony was at the drugstore picking up a prescription for Advair, an asthma inhaler, when she finally lost her cool over the astronomical price of being uninsured. "I thought, 'This is crazy. I can't believe it is $240 for [...] | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | | Follow Healthland on Twitter |  | Join today to start receiving HEALTHLAND's Twitter updates!
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