health/fitness

In today's fast-paced, multitasking world, it's easy to get hooked on technology that's always online, delivering a steady stream of texts and tweets.

Genetically engineered mosquitoes could provide a valuable weapon against malaria, dengue, West Nile and other mosquito-transmitted diseases.

As back pain has become an increasingly common ailment in the United States -- and for chronic sufferers, one of the most debilitating -- desperate patients and their doctors have propelled major advancements in the field.

SALT LAKE CITY - Today, thousands of children, pregnant women and chronically sick adults, who have been granted priority by federal health officials, will receive H1N1 swine flu vaccine through government-sponsored mass vaccination clinics across the country.

Should the obese be able to join them?

Zander Blosser sat at the plastic picnic table outside his parents' house and began to build a dragon out of duct tape and printer paper.

He had a black knit cap on his head and chipped black polish on his nails. The air smelled like kitty litter and lawn-mower gas, depending on the wind, and he worked under the raspy din of a window-unit air conditioner.

Bystander CPR.

Whether you or your neighbor is ready and willing to do it may quadruple the odds of survival for someone down on the street in cardiac arrest.

Macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among older Americans, can be regulated by diet, according to Tufts University research published in the journal Ophthalmology.

Take our quiz about foods that can raise or lower the incidence of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD.

Health-reform legislation approved by the House last weekend would add tens of millions of Americans to the ranks of the insured.

And it would begin to address some of the deficiencies in the way family doctors are paid and trained so that there may be at least a few more primary-care physicians available to care for all those newly insured patients.

Poisoning caused by binge drinking -- drinking excessively within a short period. For men, that's five standard-sized alcoholic beverages within two hours. For women, it's four or more standard-sized drinks, which is defined as a 12-ounce beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine or a mixed drink with one shot.

Everybody liked Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr. He was smart, funny, handsome, a gifted athlete and a talented performer. In his senior year at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, "Gordie" was co-captain of the varsity football team and started on defense for the school's New England championship lacrosse team.