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Compiled By: MedicalBillingandCoding.org College students talk about the “ Freshman 15 .” That’s the typical number of credit hours a full-time student takes during a semester. Some also claim it’s the number of pounds students gain eating dorm food and studying all night. New work from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis confirms that most students do, indeed, gain weight in college. Reporting in the Journal of American College Health , the research team found that about 70 percent of students gained a significant amount of weight between the start of college and the end of sophomore year . “It wasn’t surprising,” says principal investigator Susan S. Deusinger, Ph.D., professor and director of the Program in Physical Therapy at the School of Medicine. “Normally, eating habits in this group are not great. Most don’t eat five fruits and vegetables per day, and many don’t get enough exercise.” In exchange for measuring their height and weight and asking the...

A Yemeni militant group affiliated with al-Qaida says it has shot and killed an American teacher in southern Yemen for preaching Christianity .  Militants riding a motorcycle shot the man in his car in the southern city of Taiz on Sunday. Yemeni officials say the American had been working at a European-run language institute. Authorities launched an investigation to find the perpetrators of the attack. A U.S. State Department official confirmed the killing of the U.S. citizen in a statement sent to VOA , condemning it as a "heinous crime" and urging Yemen to bring those responsible to justice. Al-Qaida linked group Ansar al-Sharia sent a text message to Yemen-based journalists saying it killed the American because he was a Christian missionary . Islamist militants often accuse Western aid and development groups of proselytizing. A Swiss woman working as a language teacher in Yemen's western port of Hodeida was abducted last week. The identity of the kidnapper...