| |  What Does Bottle-Feeding Have to Do With Autism Risk?
By Bonnie Rochman As if there weren't already enough tension between bottle-feeding and breast-feeding moms, now a researcher at the State University of New York at Albany is courting controversy by suggesting that bottle-feeding is associated with an increased risk of autism. In [...] |  U.S. Rules Marijuana Has No Medical Use. What Does Science Say?
By Maia Szalavitz The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ruled on Friday that marijuana has "no accepted medical use" and should therefore remain illegal under federal law — regardless of conflicting state legislation allowing medical marijuana and despite hundreds of studies and centuries [...] |  Stay-at-Home Dads Are More Likely to Divorce
By Bonnie Rochman Once upon a time, men worked, women didn't and that appeared to be the equation for a harmonious family life. Now, new research shows how much that truism has changed for women but stayed the same for men. While attitudes [...] |  Why States Should Think Twice About Caylee's Law
By Maia Szalavitz With Casey Anthony having been found not guilty of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, outraged Americans are seeking other routes to justice and hoping to prevent similar cases. About half a million people have already signed an online [...] |  The Urban Garden: Foraging for Secret Harvests in the City
By Meredith Melnick In a delightful piece for TIME.com this week, Healthland contributor Anita Hamilton wrote about foraging for fresh greens and berries in the city. You might balk at eating produce plucked from an urban lot, but you'd be missing out. Hamilton [...] |  Cancer Patient Gets World's First Artificial Trachea
By Meredith Melnick For the first time, a patient has been successfully transplanted with an artificial trachea, created from scratch in a lab. The procedure required the coordinated efforts of scientific teams in London, Massachusetts and Stockholm, Sweden, where the windpipe was surgically [...] |  Do Sippy Cups Deserve a Warning Label?
By Bonnie Rochman Beware the perils of the sippy cup. In New York state, at least, cigarettes and alcohol may not be the only items to warrant warning labels. The legislature wants sippies — those handy-dandy drinking vessels that purport to prevent liquid [...] |  The Myth of the Hypoallergenic Dog
By Meredith Melnick You may now file hypoallergenic dogs under Things That Are Too Good to Be True. That's the conclusion of a new study by Henry Ford Hospital researchers, which finds that homes with so-called hypoallergenic dogs don't have lower household levels [...] |  America Sees Its Obesity Rates and Raises Them
By Katy Steinmetz An annual report put out by two public health groups shows that America is getting fatter. Adult obesity rates have increased in 16 states in the past year, with 12 states now reporting at least 30% of their populations as [...] |  UCLA Hospitals to Pay $865,000 for Breaching Celebrity Patients' Privacy
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