Popular osteoporosis drugs such as Merck’s Fosamax and other similar drugs might carry a risk of causing esophageal cancer, reported the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA’s division of drug risk assessment states researchers should check into potential links between so-called bisphosphonate drugs and cancer.

Michael Law MD Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Raleigh, NC is seeing an increase in demand for fat transfer, fat injections and microfat grafting. Dr. Law, a board certified plastic surgeon, explains this increase in demand due to the natural looking results these fat grafting procedures provide.

Two previously identified pathways associated with aging in mice are connected, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding reinforces what researchers have recently begun to suspect: that the age-related degeneration of tissues, organs and, yes, even facial skin with which we all struggle is an active, deliberate process rather than a gradual failure of tired cells. Derailing or slowing this molecular betrayal, although still far in the future, may enable us to one day tack years onto our lives — or at least delay the appearance of that next wrinkle.

It’s another new year, and once again people have resolved to get active, lose weight, quit smoking or make other healthy changes in their lives. While it’s fairly easy to make New Year’s resolutions, for many of us it’s a lot harder to keep them. For some, earning rewards — like a gift card at a major retailer in return for completing an online coaching program, or merchandise, such as clothing, jewelry or electronics, for completing a series of health screenings — is just what’s needed to turn the best of intentions into everyday action.

Midwest health care startups attracted $1.1 Billion in new investments across 166 companies in 2008, ranking the region 3rd among US regions and maintaining a multi-year growth trend for Midwest health care investing. Minnesota and Ohio companies collectively attracted the most investment dollars within the Midwest. All findings are reported in the Midwest Health Care Venture Report 2008 released today by BioEnterprise and the Mid-America Healthcare Investors Network (MHIN).

The California Health Insurance provider, The HealthCare Solution, today announced the company is radically changing the way high risk baby boomers obtain health insurance. Taking a new approach, the California health insurance provider has partnered with top UK neurosurgeon, Dr. Sim Farar, to provide education to baby boomers to reduce their risk of memory loss that often times affects health insurance eligibility.

There are hard dollars-and-cents costs to being overweight or obese, Specifically, the health care specialists at Humana estimates these costs at the following for 2009.