Speaking from the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, President Obama underscored the public health impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed limits on power plant emissions,released as a draft by the agency Monday morning. “For the sake of all our kids, we’ve got to do more to reduce [emissions],” the president said, adding that they "threaten the health of the most vulnerable Americans." (ABOVE: The 25 WORST Cities for Air Pollution) The main feature of the...

Many of These Are Preventable ((Thinkstock/Digital Vision)) Thinking back to your teenage years probably causes you to scratch your head and wonder, “what the heck was I thinking?” These questionable adolescent decisions can be as harmless as an atrocious wardrobe, or as dire as reckless driving in severe weather. In fact, making poor decisions outdoors — in both good and bad weather — contributes to two of the top ten adolescent killers, according to the World Health Organization’s 2012 list...

Concerns about Americans’ weight are widespread — especially, for some, as we head into the swimsuit time of year. But the scale isn’t just a stateside problem, researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington say. Nearlya third of the world’s population is overweight or obese. Globally, obesity has skyrocketed since 1980, from 857 million overweight or obese individuals that year to 2.1 billion in 2013, researchers said, after an analysis of trend...