Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

FRIDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Discrimination can be a threat to health, according to a new study that included both blacks and whites.

The Diet Detective directs you to sources, including himself.

FRIDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Eating a high-fiber diet does not lower a person's risk of diverticulosis, but a low-fiber diet might, according to a new study that contradicts...

Friday sports calendar

The Winter X Games kicked off last night, and with it the opportunity for action sports athletes to move into mainstream awareness. Stars like Tony Hawk, Travis Pastrana and Shaun...

Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political.

SAN FRANCISCO - Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political.

LONDON, January 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Global technology and eCommerce software community is waiting with bated breath for the upcoming London Stock Exchange IPO of genius eCommerce Platform, IzzoNet ...

LANDOVER, Md. -- IJJ Corporation (Pink Sheets:IJJP) announces the future deployment of ecommerce site domain name of DSMRS.com, the first of three steps required to meet the demand for disaster...

CSN Resources S.A., a subsidiary of Brazilian steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (SID, CSNA3.BR), sold $200 million of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds in the U.S. credit markets on Friday, according to a...

In some cases, it's paying to wait out the slump in commercial real estate.

Brazilian miner Vale SA (VALE, VALE5.BR) said Friday it will decide this year if it will sell its oil and natural-gas assets in Brazil.

Senior executives of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) received another installment of stock awarded in previous years, including 24,249 shares for Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein.

GOP presidential front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich barnstormed across Florida on Friday, trying to rally supporters and break away in the polls four days before what is shaking up...

A federal judge sentenced Colton Harris-Moore, whom authorities dubbed the Barefoot Bandit, to 6½ years in prison for an infamous string of thefts and burglaries.

Police arrested two Utah high school students and accused them of planning to explode bombs during a school assembly then make their getaway in a plane, authorities said.