Get into the flow­: finding your positive patterns

The Diet Detective, Charles Stuart Platkin, shares a few tips to help you find your "sweet spot" when you're trying to lose weight.

Report: State tobacco prevention funding lacking

States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs.

Slim Down with Seth: Giving Back

Our very own Seth Wayne has shed close to fifty pounds. So, what did he do with all of his old clothes? He took them to Sponsors -- a service that helps people re-enter the community after spending time in prison.

'It's blurry but it works'

Monday night, we introduced you to Dan Mullen, a Eugene carpenter, living basically blind in one eye without the money to fix it. But he's received an incredible gift, and KVAL cameras rolled as he received it.

Final advice: Panel against routine prostate test

Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good.

Study: Simple scope exam cuts colon cancer deaths

A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease, a large federal study finds.

FDA says Xarelto reduced deadly heart attacks

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that a blood thinner from Johnson & Johnson appears to reduce life-threatening blood clots in high-risk patients, although it also increases the risk of internal bleeding.

UO student graduates law school at 51 after losing vision

Bill Spiry is the oldest law student who graduated with his class on Saturday. The 51-year-old decided to go back to law school after working in human resources for 22 years.

Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured

As more avid runners and casual athletes experiment with barefoot running, doctors say they are treating injuries ranging from pulled calf muscles to Achilles tendinitis to metatarsal stress fractures, mainly in people who ramped up too fast. In serious cases, they are laid up for several months.

Opiate epidemic: 'People are dying from this, in record numbers'

People are dying from drug overdoses in record numbers, and studies point to prescription painkillers as the source of an opiate epidemic.