The efforts to bring the waves back to Long Beach by dismantling and reconfiguring the city’s massive breakwater sheltering its shores, and redirecting the mouth of the Los Angeles River is receiving help from the federal government, with the US Army Corps of Engineers lending its support to the $8.3-million study spread over four years.

According to experts, people, especially women and children will suffer from fatal short-term and long-term health effects, as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Scientists reveal the best and most effective way to lose weight is to go on a crash diet. Despite, nutritionists warning against it, research indicates that dieters who lost the most weight in their first month of trying, also lost the most in the long-term.

Not only did they lose the most weight, they were also more likely to retain their new shape, compared to dieters who lost less.

Research has found Vitamin D to provide numerous health benefits, from promoting bone health to lowering the risk of certain cancers and autoimmune diseases. The problem is there are not too many sources that could provide this vitamin, so essential for our health.

In a recent move , Medtronic Inc have announced on Monday that it has agreed to settle the patent-infringement lawsuit filed against AGA Medical Corp , in 2007 for infringement of Medtronic's Jervis patent family.

It may be noted that in the lawsuit, Gridley based Medtronic alleged that AGA had infringed upon the patent for its Jervis family of patents, which cover the use of stress to restrain self-expanding medical devices made of nitinol. Nitinol is a sharp metal alloy which is frequently used in medical devices, including Medtronic's transcatheter coronary heart valves.

According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, by avoiding common mistakes allergy sufferers can keep their allergies under control.

With the allergy season about to kick into high gear, the following tips should prove useful in preventing the symptoms:

Statistics on eating disorders may vary, however, it is reported that a minimum of 10% of college students battle the disease in one form or the other.

Jennifer Berry, an associate Licensed Counsellor with the University of North Alabama (UNA) said, whether it was anorexia nervosa or bulimia or binge eating, students were not immune to food related crises.

According to her most of the students they see have a problem, but are not aware of it. Forty percent of the students affected by the disordered eating, develop it when they get on campus and which is often triggered by stress.

Addiction expert Dr. Peter Miller has branded low carb beer as ‘insidious health risk’, as it will without preventing a beer gut, only encourage people to drink more, believing such beers to be healthy beers.

Diet conscious drinkers are taking to low carbohydrate beers like Foster’s Pure Blonde and Bluetongue’s Bondi Blonde, however, Miller does not think these beers should be seen as a ‘healthy alternative’ to full-strength beer. He says, if your waistline is of concern, you would do far better to switch to light beer, as low carb beers are not a healthy choice.