California Healthline's Jeff Stryker looks at what happens to expectant parents when joy is replaced by loss and sorrow. Unpaid family caregivers increasingly are being relied upon to deliver essential and sometimes quite complicated and intensive care at home. With more than 70,000 Americans having reached the age of 100, scientist are beginning to ask how long humans will live in the new millennium. Recent demographic and scientific studies of aging have analysts worried about whether the health care system is ready for the graying patient population, according to California Healthline's Jeff Stryker. California Healthline columnist Jeff Stryker looks at some of the questions arising in the wake of the booming cosmetic surgery industry.
School is back in session, and with it renewed discussion about drugging hyperactive children.
A lawsuit filed last week in federal court in San Diego accused the drug company Novartis of conspiring with the American Psychiatric Association to create a new disease and inflate its symptoms, all just to sell more Ritalin. California Healthline is shocked, shocked. Not just from eating their Wheaties. Despite testing programs begun during the Mexico City games in 1968, the shadow of illicit performance-enhancing drugs over the Olympics only grows darker. California Healthline looks at the drugs elite athletes are taking to get an edge and what officials are doing about it.