It is the most treasured and joyous sound for nearly every parent: their child's laughter. But for a rare number of children, laughter can signal a potentially devastating, even fatal future, and their parents will do anything to make the laughter stop.
As the success of celebrities like Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley shows, waging a public battle with the bulge is no longer a detour from stardom but rather an opportunity for big money.
When you're trying to lose weight, the number that sees to matter most is the one you see on the scale. But there are plenty of other compelling numbers coming out of the growing weight-loss industry. Learn 10 surprising statistics about weight loss in the United States.
Few doctors have made more money in the weight-loss business than Beverly Hills brothers, Julian and Michael Omidi. The brothers, who once were featured in the cable program "Dr. 90210," are the men behind a heavily advertised Southern California business called 1-800-GetThin that has made millions of dollars offering an outpatient procedure that constricts the stomach with what's called a "Lap-Band."
John Edwards abruptly rested his case today, but his defense was dealt a blow when the federal judge said she will set a lower bar than Edwards' legal team had sought for convicting the former presidential candidate of violating the federal campaign finance law.
Steven Powell, the father-in-law of missing woman Susan Powell, was found guilty of voyeurism in a Washington court today for taking inappropriate images of neighborhood girls using the bathroom and showering. He could be sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
In a new book-length study written by James Liebman, a Columbia law professor, and six of his students and published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the decision to execute Carlos De Luna for the 1983 murder of a Corpus Christi gas station attendant is called into question again and again.
This season's "Toddlers & Tiaras" features perhaps its most unique competitor ever -- 8-year-old Lacey-Mae Mason has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.
The Johnston family, from Barnesville, Ga., is extreme in many ways. Standing no more than four feet tall, they like to call themselves "the real life seven dwarfs." They are the largest family of achondroplasia dwarfs, a type of dwarfism that affects the extremities.
If you ever worked for gratuities, you have more than likely felt the compulsion to seek revenge against nasty customers and bad tippers. Sometimes, waiters cross the line and can turn into the "waiter from hell" in order to stay sane, as wait staff veterans -- including Steve Dublanica, author of "Waiter Rant"-- revealed to "20/20."
"I'm a porn star, yes ... and I don't mind that title. ... It's given me a life of luxury and success," said Natalie Oliveros. But while Oliveros -- better known by the stage name Savanna Samson -- doesn't shrink from explaining to "20/20" what she does for a living, she has been less forthcoming with her son.
Ever wonder what it's like to party with a celebrity? Chris Gardner knows all too well. As a gossip columnist, it was his job to spend six nights a week living it up with the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Britney Spears and more. But seven years of fast Hollywood living eventually took its toll. "This town chewed me up and spit me out," he said.
To most people, the idea of their loved one dating and having passionate sex with other people is repellent. But for two married couples -- with children -- in Somerville, Mass., and thousands more across the country, this is the happy, stable norm.
Deesh Sekhon is an Indian woman. In a way, this makes her a survivor of an appalling human-rights catastrophe. It's called gendercide: the killing of female children to avoid paying dowry to future husbands' families, a deep-set custom in Indian culture. Every month nearly 50,000 female fetuses are aborted, and untold numbers of baby girls are abandoned or murdered. When she saw a story on it, Sekhon was shocked into action.
The day your first  book hits stores is a big one for any first-time author, but on April 3 — the publication date of her now best-seller, “Heaven Is Here” — Stephanie Nielson was preoccupied with something else: the birth of her fifth child, Charlotte. Charlotte was...
John Edwards' former aide Andrew Young says the one-time presidential contender admitted he was the father of Rielle Hunter's baby only because Young's upcoming book includes irrefutable evidence.
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