| |  Drugged Driving: A Quarter of Fatal Car Crashes Involve Drugs
By Meredith Melnick A new study finds that among 44,000 U.S. drivers involved in fatal single-vehicle car crashes between 1998 and 2009, 25% tested positive for drug use. The most common drugs were marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines. It's not clear whether drugs caused [...] |  Is He Gay? Ovulating Women Can Tell
By Bonnie Rochman Ovulation is a really useful biological function. Not only does it facilitate pregnancy — though sperm are in no short supply, the ephemeral egg appears just once a month — but new research finds that it also helps a woman [...] |  Why the German E. Coli Outbreak Was So Deadly
By Bryan Walsh The German E. coli outbreak has slipped from the news recently, as the rate of new cases and deaths has slowed. But it's not over yet. On Thursday federal health officials announced that the death of a man in Arizona [...] |  U.S. Panel: Pregnant Moms Should Get Whooping Cough Vaccine
By Associated Press A federal advisory panel is recommending that pregnant women get vaccinated against whooping cough. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday voted to recommend the shot for pregnant women who previously were not vaccinated. The vaccine, which does not [...] |  Study: How 'Fake' Fats Can Make You Really Fat
By Meredith Melnick "Diet" snacks usually contain some sort of fake fat or sugar — a synthetic substitute that helps make the food taste as sweet or as rich as the real thing, but without the calories. The thinking is that eating fake [...] |  A Better Test to Predict Alzheimer's?
By Alice Park Among the many difficult features of Alzheimer's is that doctors can never really say with certainty which patients who show signs of memory loss will go on to develop the neurodegenerative disorder. That's because not all people who show lapses [...] |  North Carolina Mulls Compensating Victims of Forced Sterilization
By Bonnie Rochman Having a baby is a widely anticipated milestone for many adults, so it's easy to imagine the shock endured by thousands of people who were forcibly sterilized by the government beginning before World War II. Now, North Carolina has become [...] |  Next on CSI: Using Saliva to Tell a Person's Age
By Alice Park If you're a fan of CSI, you know that dead men don't tell lies. Not even about their age. But it wasn't until a new discovery by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, that scientists could actually determine [...] |  Study: The Best and Worst Foods for Healthy Weight
By Sora Song When it comes to keeping your weight down, a new study by Harvard researchers suggests that the quality of your food matters more than its calorie count. Intuitively, we know that gorging on burgers and French fries and slurping down soda [...] |  A Doctor's View: Lessons from a Painful Heel
By Dr. Scott Haig I love PRP. So far. Platelet rich plasma is a red liquid I have injected, to date, into five patient's heels and four patient's elbows. These people were probably going to need surgery. The foot patients had insertional Achilles tendonopathy, [...] | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | | Follow Healthland on Twitter |  | Join today to start receiving HEALTHLAND's Twitter updates!
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