SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) – It wasn’t what you would call a casual get-together.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Wearing a programmable wristwatch could help children manage their daytime bladder control problems, a new study suggests.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two agencies investigating claims that Procter & Gamble Co’s Pampers Dry Max gave children severe diaper rash reported Thursday that they have found no specific cause linking the diapers to rashes.

NOWSHERA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s displaced flood victims say a lack of clean water and high temperatures are causing illnesses sweeping through relief camps with children most at risk.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cell phone text message — and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival — may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a new study suggests.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A study funded by Abbott Laboratories offered more detailed evidence that its weight-loss drug Meridia increases heart risks, prompting renewed calls by consumer advocates and others to pull the drug from the market.

LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental Novartis drug can clear malaria infection in mice with a single dose and scientists say it shows promise as a possible future treatment for one of the world’s major killer diseases.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – When it comes to changing health behaviors, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours a night on weeknights eat more fatty foods and snacks than those who get more than eight hours of sleep a night, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.