Hi, I'm John Whyte, chief medical officer for WebMD/Medscape. Welcome to The Week That Wasn't. This is where we cover trending medical stories our news team didn't cover. First up, a study from the ...

March 3, 2011 — Breast-feeding may protect babies who were prenatally exposed to diabetes against childhood obesity, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study reported in the March ...

Girish Melkani, Ph.D., recently promoted to professor in the Department of Pathology, has been named the latest recipient of the school’s Featured Discovery award. This recognition celebrates notable ...

Babies who are breast-fed are less likely to become severely overweight as they grow through childhood, according to a major study released yesterday. The study of more than 15,000 pre-adolescents ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two-year-olds who are still using bottles are more likely to be obese by kindergarten, a new study finds. Researchers who studied 6,750 U.S. children found that toddlers ...

NOUAKCHOTT, April 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Souadou Isselmou was made to eat buckets of porridge as a child in southern Mauritania, she hated it so much she would hide food under her ...

Newark’s Corey Booker is a darling among U.S. mayors. He made headlines in 2010 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledged $100 million to his New Jersey city’s struggling school system because ...

JACKSON Miss. The Obesity Action Coalition on Friday decried a bill being considered in Mississippi that would make it illegal for restaurants to serve food to anyone who is considered obese. Earlier ...