Dutch researchers say that obese men may be less physically fit than obese women, due to the fact they are more likely to have diabetes or pre-diabetes, and tend to have more abdominal fat.

A study of 56 obese men and women, awaiting weight-reduction surgery, showed the women in the group were better able to tolerate exercise. The team at Hospital Reinier de Graaf in Groep, in the Netherlands, found this could probably be explained by the way body fat is distributed

A California woman is suing a hospital for wrongful death because her husband fainted and suffered a fatal injury after helping delivery room staff give her a pain-killing injection.

Jeanette Passalaqua, 32, filed the suit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Southern California Permanente Medical Group Inc. in San Bernardino County state court last week

A survey released Thursday reveals two-thirds of women have no health insurance, and more than a quarter of young and middle-aged U.S. women went without medical care last year because of insufficient funds.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that a growing number of women are forgoing screening tests, such as mammograms, and are not talking to their doctors about important health issues such as smoking, alcohol use, and calcium intake

A California woman is suing a hospital for wrongful death because her husband fainted and suffered a fatal injury after helping delivery room staff give her a pain-killing injection.

Jeanette Passalaqua, 32, filed the suit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Southern California Permanente Medical Group Inc. in San Bernardino County state court last week

Researchers at Columbus Children's Research Institute studied injuries associated with mini trampolines as opposed to those previously connected to full-sized ones.

The study finds injuries sustained on small, jogging or exercise trampolines are similar to those found on full-sized trampolines. The findings are published in the July issue of Pediatrics