Among U.S. men, 56 percent of first marriages lasted at least 20 years, while 52 percent of women in first marriages were still married, officials said. Casey E. Copen, Kimberly Daniels, Jonathan Vespa and William D. Mosher of the National Health Statistics Reports, part of the Centers for...

Eighty-one percent of U.S. adults said they want to eat fresh ingredients but fewer than 50 percent actually eat fruits and vegetables daily, a survey says. The Ziploc Fresh Eating Survey identified the Top 10 “freshest cities” — where residents were seeking and eating the...

Six percent of the poorest one-fifth of the Chinese population said they could not afford enough food in 2001, down from 23 percent in 2008, a survey found. The Gallup Poll results were based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 4,000 adults in China age 15 and older,...

Preventing or delaying type 2 diabetes in high-risk adults would result in fewer people developing the disease and lower healthcare costs, officials said. The Diabetes Prevention Program showed lifestyle changes — reduced fat and calories in the diet and increased physical activity...

A Virginia man who underwent a 36-hour face transplant last week said he was pleased with his new face, which he saw Tuesday for the first time. The University of Maryland released details of the most extensive full face transplant completed to date — including both jaws, teeth, and...

Seven-out-of-eight people who sought advice from a nurse telephone helpline followed the advice, researchers in Canada said. Dr. Bev Williams, associate professor at the University of Alberta, and colleagues spoke to 312 people who called the LINK telephone health advice line, established in...

The Health and Retirement Study, the premier database for studying retirement and U.S. baby boomers, has added genetic information, officials said. The study, a 20-year nationwide survey of the health, economic and social status of older Americans, added genetic information from about 13,000...

British patients say cancer trial informational leaflets are too long and incomprehensible to be of much use, researchers found. Study author Mary Dixon-Woods of the University of Leicester in England and colleagues traced cancer trial information sheets over 13 cancer trials. The researchers...

Lengthy spaceflight affects cardiovascular responses, but not as dramatically as predicted indicating exercise mitigates the impact, Canadian researchers said. Astronauts have been taking part in short spaceflight missions since 1961, but only recently began spending significantly longer times...

Adults who ate chocolate on a regular basis were thinner that those who indulged with less frequency, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Beatrice Golomb, associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues examined dietary and other information provided by approximately...

Bariatric surgery dramatically outperforms standard medical treatment of severe type 2 diabetes, U.S and Italian researchers found. The study published in the online edition of the New England Journal Medicine found most bariatric surgery patients were able to discontinue all diabetes...

U.S. researchers said they found no significant difference between high- versus low-dose aspirin in the prevention of recurring cardiovascular events. Lead author Payal Kohli, a cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said each year, more than 1 million Americans...

Fifty-eight percent of parents in Oregon said they go beyond the rules imposed by the state's graduated licensing laws, a survey indicated. A survey by Pemco Insurance indicated 52 percent said the state should enforce stricter consequences for those who violate teen-driving laws. In...

Americans want to avoid losing a permanent tooth more than getting influenza, paying taxes or speaking in public, a U.S. survey indicated. The January survey of 1,014 U.S. adults by the American Association of Endodontists found 63 percent said they want to avoid a root canal, but 69 percent...

Sixty percent of U.S. parents said their children spend less than an hour a day outdoors, a survey by L.L.Bean and the National Park Foundation indicated. “Getting your children outside does not have to mean going for a long hike or needing expensive equipment. It can often be as...

The Affordable Care Act resulted in major improvements in access and coverage for millions of U.S. adults seen by internists, a physicians' group says. The American College of Physicians, which represents 132,000 internal medicine specialists and medical students, reported the Affordable...

Children with autism spectrum disorder are bullied three times more frequently than their siblings who did not have autism, U.S. researchers found. Dr. Paul Law, director of the Interactive Autism Network Project at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, said the study found 63 percent of children...

About one-third of U.S. women's wage gains during the 1990s were due to the availability of oral contraceptives, researchers found. Martha Bailey and Brad Hershbein at the University of Michigan, and Amalia Miller at the University of Virginia, said although women lag behind men in...

Consumers who see food labeled as organic, locally produced or fair trade often assume the food is low in calories, U.S. and French researchers say. Norbert Schwarz of the Michigan Ross School of Business, Jonathon Schuldt of California State University-Northridge and Dominique Muller of the...

Time management may be key to setting better health goals, such as exercising several times a week, a U.S. researcher said. David Conroy of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., measured weekly intentions and physical activity performance of 33 college students during a...

Most U.S. adults say the health insurance mandate is unconstitutional, but even more say Congress cannot mandate people buy broccoli, a survey indicates. The Reason-Rupe poll of 1,200 U.S. adults found 62 percent said the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional. The poll also found 87 percent...

Chicago-area employers that use incentives to entice employees to get health screenings see improved health outcomes, a survey found. Brent Estes, president and chief executive officer of Rush Health, a not-for-profit organization whose members include Rush University Medical Center, said the...

More than 75 percent of Georgia's urban and rural fourth-graders had measurable levels of a nicotine breakdown product in their saliva, researchers said. Dr. Martha S. Tingen, co-director of Georgia Health Sciences University's Child Health Discovery Institute and interim program...

A rare set of “momo” twins born eight weeks premature have been cleared by doctors and are finally home with their parents in Maryland. The boys, Brooks and Nolan Bauer, were born by Caesarian section Feb. 13 a full two months early because they were monoamniotic, meaning they...

Exposure to pollutants from fossil fuel combustion during pregnancy was linked to children with more attention and behavioral problems, U.S. researchers said. Lead author Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public...

Almost 60 percent of U.S. adults don't feel ready for bathing suit season and 24 percent indicating they feel pressure to lose weight, a survey indicates. A survey for Nutrisystem, conducted by Harris Interactive, indicated 67 percent of women don't feel ready for bathing suit...

A recent study showed a sharp increase in toddler cavities, but a U.S. dentists advises that oral disease is almost 100 percent preventable. Pediatric dentists, Jonathan Shenkin and Mary Hayes of Chicago, both of the American Dental Association, said the study showed the increase in dental...

The number of new cases of tuberculosis in New York City fell from 711 to 689 in 2011 — the lowest number of cases on record, city health officials say. New York City's 82 percent fewer TB cases than at the peak of an epidemic in 1992 reflects national trends and the combined...

U.S. adults attending a church, synagogue or mosque often report more positive emotions and fewer negative ones, a survey indicates. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, based on 329,152 interviews collected Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2011, asked about 1,000 Americans each day about the positive...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Saturday called for a global effort to diagnose and treat tuberculosis. Ban spoke on World Tuberculosis Day, an annual event to raise awareness of the disease. The United Nations says almost 9 million people worldwide were diagnosed with TB in 2010 and 1.4...