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Gerald Herbert/AP First Lady Michelle Obama sings and dances to exercises with staff, parents and children as part of the ‘Let’s Move!’ initiative in New Orleans, La. In 18 states, there were at least slight drops in obesity for low-income preschoolers, health officials said Tuesday. For many years, doctors have been wringing their hands as more and more U.S. children ...

KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images/AFP/Getty Images Dustin Hoffman will be continuing with his consistent work schedule. The two-time Oscar winner is set to begin filming Roald Dahl’s ‘Esio Trot’ alongside Dame Judi Dench in the fall. Dustin Hoffman had a cancer scare but was successfully treated, People reports. “It was detected early, and he has been surgically cured,” his rep, Jodi Gottlieb, ...

oksun70/Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman posted an ad to breast-feed babies for male couples in France, where homosexual couples can legally marrysince May. PARIS – A woman has posted an offer on a French website to breast-feed babies of homosexual male couples for 100 euros ($ 130) a day, stirring up media interest just weeks after a divisive same-sex marriage law ...

 A 9-year-old boy who spent a heartbreaking 480 days in the hospital during the swine flu pandemic is now a big step closer to recovery after getting a kidney from his mother. Robert “Boo” Maddox V of Boyce, La., received the lifesaving surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., July 29. “Let’s get this done,” the young survivor reportedly said ...

Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks bigger, often involving home-improvement materials such as silicone injected by people with no medical training. Some want to fill out a bikini or a pair of jeans. Others believe a bigger bottom will bring them work as music video models or adult entertainers. Whatever ...

PR NEWSWIRE A Nevada woman gave birth in a Subway restaurant restroom on Friday. RENO, Nev. — It was just another day at work for Flora Vargas until a screaming woman burst into her Subway sandwich shop in Nevada on Friday and announced she was in labor. After the pregnant woman raced for the women’s restroom, assistant manager Vargas and ...

Kevin Orozovich Mount Sinai’s Dr. Kevin Baumlin says preventing the body temperature from staying above 100 degrees is the key to avoiding heat exhaustion and the more serious heatstroke. THE SPECIALIST As the vice chair of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai, Dr. Kevin Baumlin sees all comers — anyone who has an illness or injury of some kind. Emergencies related ...

STRINGER/SPAIN/REUTERS A stampede pushes through a crowd of runners during the Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain. Scenes like this could be more common in the U.S. when the Great Bull Run events begin in August. Thrill-seekers will soon be running with the bulls when they’re unleashed in several cities across the country, officials said. The Pamplona-inspired Great ...

Olivier Lantzendorffer/Getty Images The new law says it’s reasonable to think a sex crime has been committed against a minor if the baby’s mother won’t identify the father of the child. JACKSON, Miss. — If a girl younger than 16 gives birth and won’t name the father, a new Mississippi law — likely the first of its kind in the ...

Uncredited/ASSOCIATED PRESS The FDA has traced the outbreak of cyclospora in Iowa and Nebraska to salad mix supplied by a Mexican farm and served at Red Lobster and Olive Garden. This image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the presence of four Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in a stool sample. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration ...