An international conference of health experts is warning the world that obesity is a far worse pandemic than many realize.

Prof. Paul Zimmet, the chairman of the meeting of more than 2,500 experts and health officials, and an Australian expert on diabetes, explains, "Obesity is an international scourge. This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world

A record number of Americans are without health insurance.

According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.6 million Americans were not covered by health insurance in 2005, up from 45.3 million a year before

A Chinese medical professor says that the Chinese people are registering rising obesity rates.

Professor Wu Yangfeng reported that between 1985 and 2000, the rate of overweight and obese children increased 28-fold

High-tech researchers from the most sophisticated labs in the world are saying that circumcision may be an effective method to "curtail the modern scourge of AIDS."

At least one major study in Africa has shown male circumcision mitigates the risk of female-to-male transmission of AIDS by 60 percent. Leaders like Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and policymakers are looking into ways to introduce the practice into the worst AIDS-hit regions of the world

A study shows that divorced women who lead stressful lives may face 60 percent more risk for heart disease later in life compared to women in a married relationship.

The online edition of the Daily Mail reported that researchers at the University of Texas looked at approximately 10,000 middle-aged men and women every two years for a period of 10 years as part of a health lifestyle survey