A new study finds overeating is caused by large portions, regardless of whether the food is good or not.

Researchers gave moviegoers stale popcorn in big buckets, and they ate 34 percent more than those given the same stale popcorn in medium-sized containers

A new study on regional low birth weight offers promise for health care experts in an area of prenatal health on a national scale where progress has been elusive.

Although researchers have long known that low birth weight (defined as a newborn weighing 5.5 lbs or less) can be influenced by many factors including the biological interaction of the mother and the fetus, the parent's socioeconomic status, and medical care, these factors are little understood and public health initiatives aimed at reducing the incidence of low birth weight have been largely unsuccessful

Worrisome results from a new pan-European survey of over 250 cancer patients find patients with cancer are failing to receive appropriate treatment for anemia and therefore suffering un-necessarily from the debilitating fatigue it causes.

The survey revealed that over half (58-percent) are not currently receiving EPO therapy (drugs which stimulate the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells) for their anemia-related fatigue, despite the recommendation of European standards for anemia care

Acording to a new study by the Keystone Research Center and Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, the number of Pennsylvanians with employer-provided health insurance declined by 4.1 percent between 2000 and 2004.

The decline signals that about 494,000 fewer Pennsylvanians get health insurance through their employer today than did in 2000. One in seven of the people who lost employer-provided health insurance coverage in the U.S. between 2000 and 2004 lived in Pennsylvania

A study published in the the British Medical Journal finds left-handed women are more than twice as likely to develop pre-menopausal breast cancer as non-left-handed women.

The report details how a team of researchers based in the Netherlands looked into women who were left-handed and took 12,000 healthy, middle-aged women who were born between 1932 and 1941 and compared body measurements as well as assessing risk factors such as economic status, smoking habits, and family history of breast cancer and their reproductive background