Bloodsucking bedbugs have returned with a vengeance in many college dorms. Dan Mizer, associate director of residence life at Texas A&M University, which has dealt with bedbugs in the past, explained the bedbug campus invasion to more foreign travel by students, a larger bedbug population, new rules that discourage widespread fumigation and maybe tougher bugs more resistant to pesticides.

About 100 college presidents from universities across the U. S. are asking legislators to lower the legal drinking age to 18 from 21. The officials organized a movement called Amethyst Initiative a year ago to push to amend current drinking age laws, which they said leads to dangerous binge drinking on college grounds.

Chewing gum after colon surgery can help shorten your hospital stay, a new British study suggests. The latest work published in Archives of Surgery says that chewing three sticks of sugarless gum a day helps improve recovery of intestinal function after all or part of the colon has been surgically removed may speed up the return of normal bowel function.

Children who are clumsy and poorly coordinated are more likely to become obese when they become adults, according to Swedish and British researchers. Researchers assessed a number of children testing cognitive and physical functions. They found that children who performed least well in the tests were more likely to be obese at age 33. It is also likely that these children do not engage in sports.

The American College of Emergency Physicians has issued an alert about the rise of text-related injuries and deaths, often the result of texting while walking, driving, biking or rollerblading. "It's tragic," said Dr. Linda Lawrence, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in a statement. She noted that her colleagues across the country are anecdotally reporting cases, "among teens and young adults, in particular, who are arriving in emergency departments with serious and sometimes fatal injuries because they were not paying attention while texting. "