Budget conscious Americans are lopping off one more item as food and fuel prices soar. On the chopping board were gym memberships which had logged a decline in 2007 for the first time in a decade, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association.

The drop in gym goers indicates the fitness industry is not immune to economic factors, wrote Kathleen Rollauer, senior manager for research of IHRSA

A new report from the U.S. Defense Department found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among American servicemembers deployed to combat zones jumped 50% in 2007. Leading the rise in mental health issues were Army soldiers and Marines.

According to the figure, more than 10,000 new cases of PTSD were reported in 2007 by the Army while the Marine Corps reported more than 2,100 new cases

Children are the worst affected by the Israeli attacks on Palestine, with 60 percent of them being anemic.

These facts were revealed during the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the main decision-making body of the World Health Organizations. Arab health ministers have sent an urgent letter to the WHO requesting that a fact-finding team investigate the appalling health conditions in the occupied territories

Lung cancer in its earliest stages may be detected by a simple blood test, according to new research presented Tuesday at the American Thoracic Society's 2008 International Conference here.

Development of a non-invasive test to distinguish cancerous from benign lesions in the lungs has innumerable implications for medicine as well as for patients who have gone through the stressful experience of waiting for biopsy results

MP Pierre Poilievre of Nepean-Carleton threatened on Monday to block Ontario's funding of sex change surgeries under the province's health insurance system.

"People are waiting too long for basic cancer treatment and MRIs and the Liberal government found money for the (Dalton) McGuinty sex change program instead," Polievere told the Ottawa Sun