Health Issues in the News Archives

Today’s talker: If your doctor or your friends won’t tell you about your weight problems, maybe a chatty new vending machine will. A fake snack machine traveling around Utah schools dispenses healthy quips instead of candy and chips.USA TODAY

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“When I read reports like this that the New York Department of Health and state agencies were well-aware of the spill and you don’t do water testing or vapor extraction tests, you don’t have an all-clear,” Brockovich told USA Today.ABC News

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In a survey by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, more than one-third of parents with children between 6 and 17 years old reported that their child’s diagnosis of autism had changed over time.

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Staff Writer, MedPage Today Explain that about 20% of American adults have had a mental illness during the preceding year, but the majority of them were never treated for it. Note that the most common reason for not getting mental healthcare was

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By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY It’s a term used so rarely that most of us haven’t heard of it. Even mental health professionals say they have read about it in textbooks rather than seen it up close. If one individual has these symptoms, it’s called a USA TODAY

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