health/fitness

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - People can die of a condition known as "broken heart syndrome," which researchers in Little Rock have found to be much more common in women than men.

The Army's top medical officer this week rejected assertions that commanders are discouraging doctors at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., from diagnosing soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Most patrons of fast-food shops are regularly asked if they'd like to "value size" or increase the portions of their meal for a few cents more.

Experts say supersized meals and a "clean plate" culture largely contribute to a national obesity rate among adults greater than 33 percent.

The interplay of companionships and heart attacks might seem a stark contrast to the February obsession with Valentine's Day love, hearts and flowers. But February is also American Heart Month.

Motivation is something that people find to be mysterious and out of reach. That's especially true when it comes to exercising consistently instead of in the start-and-stop fashion that many people find frustrating and defeating.

Everybody's doing it.

Celebrities, seniors, young adults, teens and young children. Even cats and dogs.

People of every race and religious group are catching on to the benefits of yoga.

The 5,000-year-old practice has gone from an obscure Eastern-oriented discipline to somehow, almost overnight, the hottest exercise trend.

Eleven years ago, Karen Erickson was told she had two years to live.

Erickson, 45, with lungs that work at less than 20 percent, was diagnosed with a disease so little known that the physician's assistant who delivered the news didn't get it quite right.

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. - As a retired psychologist, hospice patient John Joyce understands intellectually how a pet dog can enliven a home.

For the past five years, though, Joyce's pet schnoodle, Lucky, has reminded him of a dog's emotional value.

Morgellons disease -- a creepy illness that leaves patients with painful lesions, gives them a feeling that bugs are crawling all over their body, and has them seeing colorful, threadlike fibers poking through their skin -- isn't infectious and probably isn't caused by anything in the environment, according to the first government study of the condition.

More than a week before Rick "the Pit Bull" Borowski's fifth amateur cage fight, anxiety had set in.

A self-admitted "very nervous person," the 29-year-old says he sometimes gets so worked up before a match he vomits.

The pre-fight fear that will "turn the toughest guy into a sissy" continues to escalate even after the cage door slams and the lights go on.