Try as coffee shops might to encourage more profitable behavior, customers still control these third places.
The world's beverage makers have launched a bevy of attacks on New York's proposed modest restrictions, but they don't hold up to scrutiny.
For example, 'The Secretary shall study the feasibility of including popcorn as a covered commodity by 2014.'
Teaching good hand-washing skills actually improves school attendance rates.
The age of digitzed medicine is here. But for all its promises of simplifying doctors' visits, the technology also risks alienating the very people it's meant to help.
A survey of severe brain injuries in football shows two major, interrelated trends.
A team of archaeologists finds the earliest evidence of differential land access among European farmers in the Neolithic era.
As less people read the mail or tune in to traditional broadcast outlets, the nature of a successful PSA is changing.
New research shows that shedding the unwanted pounds doesn't erase the prejudice against women with a history of weight issues.
Taking on a chemical that's supposedly from geraniums and that's marketed as "Napalm" for the body.
Our powers of analysis may not be as foolproof as we thought.
The good news is that their coverage levels will have to go up under the Affordable Care Act.
Just a few minutes with a nutritionist helped shoppers make healthier grocery purchases.
New research suggests that people whose office are 15 miles away from their home get insufficient exercise and are at greater risk of obesity.
A study finds they'll be entering their golden years with less familial and societal support than aging generations before them.
A massive new database reveals that hospitals and other providers are to blame for recent increases in healthcare spending.
Is yours one of them?
The measure has a long way to go, but here's where lawmakers have found some common ground.
It's difficult to separate the (positive or negative) experience of receiving medical care from the medical interventions themselves.
A new series does a fantastic job explaining how America got fat, but doesn't attempt to galvanize changes to the food system.