Radiologists in Columubus, Ohio believe they’ve discovered a new disorder in which teens purposely embed objects inside their own flesh. As pictured here, a teenage girl straightened a paper clip and embedded it in her arm. The discovery came...

Today is the 20th annual World AIDS Day. 33 million people are currently living with HIV, with about one million of those residing in the United States. Although the percentage of adults with AIDS has leveled off since 2000,...

The “5 Bite Diet” is a weight loss plan developed by Dr. Alwin Lewis, a man with a fantastic head of hair who might be a doctor of some sort. The diet is built on the understanding that food...

This article is incredibly sad but we figured it could serve as a warning for people who are around very young babies. So, here goes. A woman in England made her baby fatally sick after she either kissed or...

Apparently, Oprah Winfrey’s latest diet plan includes forming a menu based on an individual’s genetic makeup under the premise that certain types of foods cause certain people to gain weight. The plan is highlighted in Dr. Peter D’Adamo’s book,...

Rob Waterland, assistant professor of pediatrics at the USDA Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, and a group of his collegues conducted research on obesity and determined that it is “triggered” in the womb during fetal...

Want to let you’re sweetie know you care… without really putting forth much effort, money or personal contact? Have we got the thing for you! InSPOT is an online postcard you send to previous sexual partners, gently informing them...

The most popular new dieting trend to hit Japan is the “Morning Banana Diet.” It’s quite simple, really: Wake up. Now eat some bananas and drink water at room temperature. For lunch and dinner, eat anything you want as...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have noted that 25% of U.S. teens have received Gardasil vaccinations against cervical cancer although only 1% of Latinas have gotten the vaccine. And this, according to immunologist W. Martin Kast of...

Now that Anahí is no longer gyrating onstage in rhinestone assless chaps and pink cowgirl hats as part of RBD, the singer / actress / weave-haver is helping raise awareness about bulimia and anorexia. She’s uniting with Fundacion Televisa...

Avon has joined forces with The Dr. Susan Love (aw) Research Foundation to create an “Army of Women.” Robots? No! This initiative to raise breast cancer awareness has two perky goals: To recruit one million healthy women of every...

Barack Obama’s newest Spanish-language campaign ads, which are airing in Florida (and after the jump!), feature a young man battling cancer. Who will be saved when Barack Obama walks on water to battle an ancient evil, John McCain. An...

Bored with caking your face in hummingbird shit? Us, too. That’s why we were so thrilled to discover a new treatment meant to make us more beautiful and relaxed. Snakes! All over your naked flesh! Probably leaving disgusting trails...

Weigh more than 90 pounds? Do you not have the ability to store cigarettes on your collar bone? Does your head look vaguely proportional to your body? Well, fatass, it’s time you just stop doing gross things like consuming...

A NY Times reader wrote in to the newspaper to point out that, when discussing HIV, its important to note that the virus is on the rise in Latinas and / or Black women. Regardless of how many purity...

Meet Meghan. She’s the creative force behind a YouTube channel called “Project LifeSize” (“We are just your average-sized collaboration channel.”) and she searched high and low and in her email inbox for plus-size (or median size for American women...

A study involving Latinas (predominantly or solely Mexican and Mexican-American) seeking pre-natal health care in Texas showed that those who had been “Americanized” were more prone to depression. The study focused on lower-income pregnant women who sought care at...

Picture, if you will: You’re at a bar, wondering if you should hope the puddle of yellow by your barstool is your own, when you spy someone from across the room. He’s hot and funny, he says. You’re inebriated...

Being fit is really important, we hear. So we guess it’s a good thing that Barbara Trujillo Gomez has created a fitness guide for Latinas. God knows our fitness needs differ from those of other women. But we could...

Good news for Latinoids! Evidently, we respond to Donepezil, a medication for Alzheimer’s disease, in much the same way that non-Latinoids do. A 4-week study comprised of 105 self-identified Hispanics who were administered the drug reacted as positively as...

By now, we’re all familiar with such unnerving yet eternally fascinating bodily functions as “sharting” (an overachieving instance of flatulence) and “snarting” (a sneeze with a surprise) and “giving your boyfriend a rusty trombone at his parents’ house while...

Julio Iglesias has to cancel most of his performance in Russia due to heart palpitations. Some concert-goers apparently thought the singer was undergoing a heart attack when he stopped two songs into his set. Doctors have determined that the...

Disconcerted by the news that a giant corporation might be lying to us, Daniel, Alex and Mark decided to deep throat some Chipotle and see how our choices in Fauxican foodstuffs falls in comparison to the restaurant’s nutritional information....

If you, like us, are tired of people constantly asking you to please close your legs so as not to let out all the fish, tell them it’s just part of your weird-ass beauty routine. Some believe a treatment...

Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game called a little girl a “porky” and now she’s going on national TV to cry about it. The game uses a player’s height and weight to calculate his or her Body Mass Index (BMI),...

Model and spitter Naomi Campbell wanted to give blood in Rio, but the medical center didn’t want her toxic poison demon fluid burning through patients’ veins: The British supermodel arrived at the HemoRio medical center Tuesday to take part...

If you get embarrassed at having piña colada flavored Magnums spill out of your purse every time you reach for change, these prettily-packaged (lolz) condoms from “Proper Attire” might be a nice alternative:...

Angelina Jolie is reportedly struggling with various health issues as a result of the strain that comes with being pregnant with twin Messiahs: An insider added: “Angelina has gestational diabetes. She found out about a month ago and has...

A informational brochure entitled “¡Hazte Cargo de tu Salud!”, distributed by the Weight-control Information Network (WIN) hopes to excitedly yell various health and diet tips in the general direction of fat, Hispanic teens: “WIN’s goal is to provide Hispanic...

Jezebel wrote about this ad from the California Milk Processor Board, insinuating that it claims Latinas are somehow more prone to turn into total witches during their periods. And we say… well, we can only speak for ourselves. But,...

Do you find your salads or fruit cups or hourly pudding breaks to be a little, well. Lacking in sodium nitrate? Well, fret not, because we’ve got a recipe for bacon cups that will make your pancreas positively bubble...

Dr. Alfredo Quiñones, a former illegal migrant worker from Mexico, has since become a renowned surgeon at Johns Hopkins. The news anchor would really like to stress that Dr. Q likes to pick things, from tomatoes as a 19...

“Mission Miracle,” a healthcare initiative conceived by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is providing free eye care to poor Nicaraguans. While Venezuelans are kind of left to rot. But whatevs! Eye love you, Nicaraguans: The evolution of the program into...

Bogus-ass medicines prescribed by your immigrant relatives may actually be killing you, according to doctors. We knew those fuckers were out to get us: Maria didn’t mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite. Yeah, this is going to...

Research suggest that syphilis was introduced to Europe by that slut Christopher Columbus and his sailors upon their return from the new world: Kristin Harper from Emory University in Georgia and her team examined the DNA of 23 strains...

The death of a man in Brasilia hospital has many Brazilians on alert and lining up for a vaccine against yellow fever: Hundreds of thousands of people have been queuing for vaccinations for the disease in parts of Brazil,...

Abortion clinics in Spain have gone on a week-long strike in an attempt to pressure the Spanish government into changing its abortion laws: Most abortions in Spain are carried out under a law requiring a doctor’s diagnosis that the...

The USC School of Pharmacy has come out with a comic book about diabetes that’s just about as exciting as you can expect a comic book by the USC School of Pharmacy about diabetes to be: “No, Ramon, you...

A grant from the National Cancer Institute hopes to encourage Latinas, who have a higher-risk of cervical cancer than non-Latinas, to feel less anxious about having a stranger stick things into their chochas. Tequila?: Many factors have been blamed...

Mariachi singer Alicia Villarreal’s is the latest upper lip to be splashed with foamy, white milk as part of the “Got Milk?” campaign, in an attempt to get Latinos to drink more cow juice: “I have always wanted to...

Five-year-old Sebastian Pina was allowed a temporary visa in order to receive life-saving surgery in the United States thanks to the intervention of a local congressman and concerned doctors: In August, doctors in Peru operated on Sebastian to remove...

You might think it’s only kids in the U.S. who have bigger tits than you do, but childhood obesity is a growing [Ed. note: Chortle.] epidemic in Mexico as well. In an effort to combat this problem, PepsiCo has...

Mark is a single, gay Cuban-American living in New York—a city some say is the toughest place in America to be single. After a few false starts, he’s finally ready to go out and meet the guy of his...

A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that being circumcised has no impact on whether or not American Blacks and (and/or?) Latinos become infected with AIDS: Black and Latino men were just as...

Hat tip—oh, we went there—to Mi Blog Es Tu Blog for this kernel: An international reproductive health organization outta the U.K. has apologized to the Mexican government for distributing the ad seen here at a handful of British clinics,...

It’s that time of year again, for these great States to look in the mirror and hate themselves! In other words, the Trust for America’s Health has ranked every state of the nation (plus D.C.) according to its rate...

Produced by Brazilian ad agency Salles Chemistri, the ads seen here have divided opinion into two camps: entirely offended Americans and slightly offended Brazilians. They parody a trio of America’s most recognizable sex icons in promotion of Itambé’s fat...

Wait a minute! You haven’t heard about Zumba? You know, the Latin aerobic dance craze that’s sweeping the planet?! Our neighbor’s daughter lost 20 pounds doing it, and she says it’s as fun as hitting the club to get...

We were catching up on our favorite mafioso show late last night, The Sopranos, when we got the sudden craving for a milkshake. We had company over, so we offered to make one for them as well. We had...

The taste for island cuisine is a guilty pleasure for many of us. Case in point is the crew behind El Cubano Gordo & Friends: The Weight Loss Journey of Men Who Love Fried Plantains and Picadillo, a personal...