According to Mendoza, he put his summer training to work as he had learned the Heimlich maneuver during the Lawrence Police Department’s two-week Teen Police Academy. It took a couple of tries, but he ...

Just before she runs a marathon, Keira D'Amato tears up. As she makes her way to the starting line, she gets emotional.

A quick-thinking 10-year-old saved her brother from choking, thanks to lifesaving skills learned in a local babysitting ...

Obesity is a major public health and economic challenge in the US, costing the health care system an estimated $173 billion ...

BMI was never meant as the sole measure for a person’s health. When we use BMI with an individual patient, it can often overestimate the risk of their weight on their health. People have a lot of ...

Everything changed during those teenage years, as my family’s lifestyle began to have serious, life-ending consequences: one ...

Sadly, it’s probably going to take more than celebrity endorsement to change the way society views people who are overweight. Weight-loss drug stigma is just the latest form of “fatphobia”.