Health / Disease

Hefty tab: Obesity will cost U.S. extra $550 billion by 2030

There's no sign of a truce in America's continuing battle of the bulge.

A report released Monday projects that U.S. obesity rates, now at 36 percent of the population, will rise to 42 percent within two decades, bringing with it a tab of more than a half-trillion dollars in health ...

Study Ties Fertility Treatment, Birth Defect Risk

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 07:28
AP | Study: "...birth defects were more common if treatment included injecting a single sperm into an egg, which is done in many cases these days..."

92-year-old woman sentenced in suicide-kit case

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 92-year-old woman who sold $40 suicide kits was sentenced Monday for failing to file federal tax returns.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernard Skomal ordered Sharlotte Hydorn to serve five years of supervised probation and pay a fine of $1,000. She could have faced a year in ...

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