Maintaining a garden is difficult, back-breaking work. Is the First Lady making it look too easy? On the long list of ways I’ve failed my family, I can now add my inability to grow crops. It’s not that I haven’t tried. If I calculated the dollars I’ve spent tilling, amending, mulching, ...

In 2006, New York City passed a first-in-the-nation ban on trans fats in restaurant food. Here's how it worked. A study of restaurant diners in New York shows that the city’s ban on trans fats improved its residents’ diet: fast-food customers chose healthier options and cut their trans-fat consumption after the ...

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Qsymia, the second new diet drug in a month, and the most effective of the weight-loss pills that the agency has considered in recent years. Qsymia, made by Vivus Inc., receives market approval on the heels of Arena’s Belviq (lorcaserin), the diet ...

Interferon beta, the most commonly prescribed drug to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), did not delay progression of the disease in relapsing patients, according to a recent study. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at data on 868 MS patients treated with interferon beta and compared ...