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Texting among U.S. children is increasing in popularity, and as a result, more kids may be harassed or bullied via text messages, a new study finds.

Yoga classes that cater to the plus-size set are gaining in popularity - a trend health experts applaud.

(MedPage Today) -- Gastric banding surgery -- which uses a band or other method to reduce the size of the stomach -- gained popularity among morbidly obese adolescents in California from 2005 to 2007, researchers found.

A treatment for common sports injuries that involves shooting the patient's own blood directly into the wound is gaining popularity, but doctors say it's hardly a miracle cure.

Coaches, parents, doctors and soccer officials can help prevent soccer-related injuries as the popularity of the sport grows, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

There's hardly anything so sublime as a perfectly steamed ear of fresh summer corn.

Vertebroplasty, a treatment for spinal fractures that is growing rapidly in popularity, may not be all that it’s cracked up to be, researchers said.

BOSTON -- Americans are smoking fewer cigarettes these days but are making up for it in part with moist snuff, roll-your-own loose tobacco, and small cigars, researchers here found.