There may not be crying in baseball, but there is chew. A new collective bargaining agreement, however, will at least reduce the visibility of smokeless tobacco to young fans. While smokeless tobacco has been banned from Minor League Baseball since…

Is it just me, or has there been some strange health stories in the news lately? Health reporters have provided quite a few entertaining stories during the last week or so. In case you’ve missed them, here are some of…

Are you happy with your weight? Nearly three-quarters of Americans aren’t. Fitness Magazine and Yahoo! Shine asked 2,000 men and women a variety of questions related to weight perceptions and body image. The results aren’t surprising — 74 percent of…

Last month, I wrote a story about a 70-year-old Vancouver man, Jim Scheer, who had completed more than 330 marathons. The marathon man ran his first race, a 4.8-miler through the Vancouver Barracks, in 1976. Since then, he’s toed the…

Bad news for those still searching and hoping for a magic pill to make body fat disappear: It doesn’t exist. Melinda Manore, an Oregon State University researcher, reviewed the evidence surrounding hundreds of weight loss supplements and found no evidence…

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research released a study this week examining the side effects of the HPV vaccine. Researchers surveyed about 900 girls and young women, ages 11 to 26, within the two weeks after they received the…

Would you ever travel outside of the United States for medical treatment? If the answer is yes, you’re among the ¼ of the U.S. population who said they would consider crossing borders to receive medical care. A 2009 Gallup Poll…