The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending reduced-fat milk for overweight or obese babies ready to graduate from breast milk or formula to cow's milk.

Low fat milk, instead of whole milk, should also be given to those who have a family history of obesity, high cholesterol or cardiovascular disease. The age to start the cow's milk is anywhere between 1 and 2 years of age, says the latest guidelines from the clinical report Lipid Screening and Cardiovascular Health in Childhood

A human trial of a large-scale experimental AIDS vaccine has been cancelled following advice by a top scientist that it was unlikely to give useful results, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said Thursday.

The vaccine trial, similar to a failed Merck and Co. product, was developed by the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. In a study called PAVE 100, the agency planned to include 2,400 men in the United States

Children born prematurely are more likely to have medical and social disabilities in adulthood, new research says. The factors can hinder the preemies from getting a well-paid job and starting a family, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Over the last four decades, the advancement in medical science has led to better survival in premature babies but studies suggest that it may come at the cost of disabilities and hurdles in adult life

A Mediterranean or low-carb diet is better than a low-fat diet if a person wants to lose weight and have a healthy heart, new studies have revealed. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health studied 322 moderately obese employees of a research center in Israel.

The employees were randomly assigned to three diet groups and the results indicated that members of the low-fat group lost an average of 6.4 pounds, while those in the low-carb and Mediterranean groups lost about 10

Doing a breast self-exam produces an increase in benign biopsies and doesn't improve breast cancer survival, new studies suggest. In fact, researchers say that the practice may do more harm than good.

The results were obtained after two consecutive studies, a 2003 study of more than 120,000 Russian women and a 2002 study of more than 266,000 Chinese women. According to both the studies, the women who did breast self-exams were nearly twice as likely to get breast biopsies, many of which turned out not to show cancer