NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. In a new study, the researchers report that using a standard 1-inch needle to immunize obese adolescents against hepatitis B virus produced a much weaker effect than using a longer needle. "As obesity rises ...

Poland's government says Krzysztof Skubiszewski, a legal expert who became Poland's first foreign minister after communism's collapse and helped the country chart a pro-Western course, has died. He was 83. The Foreign Ministry made the announcement Monday but did not give the cause of ...

Poland's president says his country deserves to become a member of Group of 20 now that its economy has grown to become the 18th largest in the world. President Lech Kaczynski argued that Poland, the largest of 10 ex-communist nations that joined the European Union ...