Weight Loss | Dieting Tips | Weight Loss Advice | Free Tips | Europe

An increasing number of patients are traveling to receive care at higher-quality hospitals in the hopes of a better outcome.

State lawmakers are working to remove barriers that prevent volunteer health care personnel from providing assistance after a disaster in a state in which they are not licensed to work.

Guardian Life and Humana are introducing multiyear health insurance plans for small and medium-sized businesses.

Forty-three Peace Corps volunteers this weekend will begin two-year posts in Ethiopia that will focus on HIV/AIDS-related education and awareness projects.

Summaries examine several recent developments in presidential campaigns related to health care.

A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health finds that folic acid supplements can dramatically lower blood arsenic levels in individuals exposed to arsenic through contaminated drinking water. This toxic element, naturally present in some aquifers used for drinking, is currently a significant public health problem in at least 70 countries, including several developing countries and also parts of the U.S. [click link for full article]

Corazonas Foods, Inc., has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Brandeis University to utilize its technology in creating several new categories of heart-healthy snacks. Brandeis’s innovative technology allows high levels of plant sterols to be incorporated into snack foods while retaining the product’s outstanding flavor. [click link for full article]

A low-fat vegetarian diet is very efficient in terms of how much land is needed to support it. But adding some dairy products and a limited amount of meat may actually increase this efficiency, Cornell researchers suggest.This deduction stems from the findings of their new study, which concludes that if everyone in New York state followed a low-fat vegetarian diet, the state could directly support almost 50% more people, or about 32% of its population, agriculturally. [click link for full article]

If you’re like most, you eat worst at healthy restaurants.The “health halos” of healthy restaurants often prompt consumers to treat themselves to higher-calorie side dishes, drinks or desserts than when they eat at fast-food restaurants that make no health claims, according to a series of new Cornell studies. [click link for full article]

Current food labeling leads to under-consumption of calcium, according to this study. Those who were taught how to translate the information consumed more. Researchers believe the same is true for other beneficial nutrients.A woman at risk for osteoporosis is told by her doctor to get 1,200-1,500 milligrams of calcium every day. [click link for full article]