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ALATINE, Ill., May 20 (UPI) – When U.S. families gather to eat, they gather in large numbers around the grill, even for birthdays, a survey indicated. The 23rd annual Weber GrillWatch Survey indicated 71 percent of U.S. adults own an outdoor grill and/or smoker, and almost three-quarters of U.S grill owners use their grill at [...]

A teenager, from Thornton, CO., smokes a joint on a Friday afternoon in front of the Colorado State Capitol in downtown Denver, CO, during the annual 420 day. File/Bill Ross/UPI  License photo NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) – U.S. teens smoke the most marijuana in the world, have the highest mortality in the world and [...]

ATLANTA, April 14 (UPI) – The No. 2 U.S. cancer killer — colon cancer — is often preventable and highly curable if caught early, U.S. researchers said. “It’s important for people to understand that, with proper screening, colon cancer can not only be detected early, but often can be prevented from developing,” Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, [...]

ATLANTA, April 11 (UPI) – Fewer babies were born to U.S. teenagers ages 15-19 in 2010 — 367,752 — than in any year since 1946′s 322,380, federal health officials said. The preliminary report by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, used the most current [...]

By Anna Yukhananov | Reuters – 8 mins ago SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) – Heart safety studies should be required for new obesity drugs, U.S. drug advisers said on Thursday, possibly adding a new hurdle to the drugs’ approval. An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted 17-6 that regulators should make companies conduct [...]

WEDNESDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) — The costs of the obesity epidemic to the United States and the economic value of curbing it are not captured fully by current methods, according to a new report. The problem is that estimates used by Congress when it looks at these issues project out only 10 years, while [...]

Published: March. 10, 2012 at 7:25 AM ATLANTA, March 10 (UPI) – Influenza continued to rise within the United States with more states reporting widespread activity, but flu-like illness stayed relatively low, officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which tracks flu-like illness, said for the week ending March 3, doctor [...]

Published: Jan. 23, 2012 at 2:01 AM ATLANTA, Jan. 23 (UPI) — The U.S. teen birth rate is the highest in the developed world with about 400,000 infants being born to mothers ages 15-19 every year, federal officials say. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta analyzed data from the 2004 [...]

Published: Jan. 18, 2012 at 1:57 AM ATLANTA, Jan. 18 (UPI) — Adult obesity increased from 1980 to 1999, but the number of those more than 30 pounds overweight may have leveled off in 2009-2010, U.S. researchers say. Katherine M. Flegal of the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and [...]

Published: Jan. 5, 2012 at 1:40 PM ATLANTA, Jan. 5 (UPI) — U.S. cancer death rates decreased by 1.8 percent per year in men and by 1.6 percent per year in women from 2004 and 2008, the American Cancer Society says. The report, Cancer Statistics 2012, said over the past 10 years of available data [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – For the past decade, cattle ranchers and meat packers watched with despair as America’s beef consumption steadily declined, ceding ground to leaner meats as well as vegetarian trends among the health-conscious. Most recently, high unemployment in the world’s wealthiest nation had cash-strapped Americans avoiding restaurants where beef is a common entree and [...]