Federal officials expect to release data on heart-defibrillator implants on Monday. The records will include information on tens of thousands, including 4 percent of the recipients who had at least one complication during the implant.

However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have opted to withhold information regarding doctors involved in the procedures

A research study by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, has shown that the risk of death among women heightens with as levels of obesity increase. In the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers analyzed the effect of the severity of obesity on more than 9000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study.

For the analysis Dr. Kathleen McTigue and colleagues evaluated the impact of body weight on death risk in 90,185 women, who were followed for an average of seven years

The Irish Heart Foundation and the National Heart Alliance in Ireland has asked its government to protect children from food marketing. The recommendation was made primarily as a preventive measure against childhood obesity

King County in Seattle, Washington has made a list of 200 "chronic public inebriates" in the region that cost taxpayers the most to care for. Seventy-five of them were moved into their own new apartments where they are free to drink and be merry off the city streets.

The alcoholics are now allowed to drink in their rooms. And they do not have to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings

Indonesia confirms its 40th bird flu death.

The victim was a five-year-old boy who died last month in Tulunggagung in East Java. Health officials believe he contracted the virus from infected chickens