Migraines and headaches are more common in overweight children and teenagers, a new study has found. It is the first national study to look at possible links between obesity and headaches in kids.

Lead researcher Andrew Hershey, a pediatric neurologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center studied 913 children and teenagers for six months. The study found that chronic headaches are common in childhood, with the prevalence of one out of four to one out of 10 kids

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs said Monday it will substantially increase disability benefits for troops who have sustained traumatic brain injuries on the battlefield, an acknowledgment that those soldiers will struggles in the future to make a living.

The move marks the first time the government has acknowledge the impact of this type of injury on veteran's lives

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was granted by state Gov. David Paterson Sunday broad powers to probe a report that healthy ex-employees of the Long Island Rail Road are receiving disability benefits.

The investigation was prompted by a New York Times report that almost $250 million of federal Railroad Retirement Board's occupational disability fund was paid to former LIRR workers, including white collar managers, since 2002

Campaigning in Ohio on Tuesday, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) decried Republicans who touted their support for families with disabled children yet also opposed stem cell research. Biden's remarks seemed to be a swipe at his counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has a son with Down Syndrome.

"I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there's joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?" Biden, a six-term senator, said during a town hall meeting in Columbus, according to CBS

There's good news for people who fear aging. According to U.S. research, running can actually help slow down the aging process.

A team from Stanford University Medical Center here have discovered that elderly people who are long-term joggers were less likely to die from medical conditions such as cancer as compared with those who are not joggers. They were also healthier and had fewer disabilities