Late-starters can benefit from healthy habits: study
2007-06-30 00:53:57
Even in middle age, adopting a healthy lifestyle can lower the risk for heart disease and premature death within years of changing habits, researchers reported on Thursday.
WHO: Air travelers should exercise legs
2007-06-29 11:01:52
The World Health Organization recommended Friday that passengers on long flights exercise their legs and resist taking sleeping pills to reduce the risk of potentially fatal blood clots.
Needle sticks endanger surgeons-in-training
2007-06-28 11:33:39
Surgeons in training are accidentally stuck with a potentially contaminated needle once every seven months, increasing the risk that they will develop AIDS or hepatitis.
Antidepressants not big risk for defects
2007-06-28 11:24:47
Newborns face little risk of birth defects from antidepressants taken by many women early in pregnancy, say the reassuring findings of the two biggest studies of this controversial link.
Kidney, heart disease spur each other
2007-06-26 10:44:43
Hearts and kidneys: If one's diseased, better keep a close eye on the other. Surprising new research shows kidney disease somehow speeds up heart disease well before it has ravaged the kidneys.
Echinacea 'halves risk of catching cold'
2007-06-26 01:07:11
Echinacea, a medicinal herb that came to prominence thanks to its use by Sioux Indians, can more than halve the risk of catching a cold, a wide-scale study has confirmed.
Staph superbug may be infecting patients
2007-06-26 01:05:42
A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.
Experts say video games not an addiction
2007-06-25 14:17:21
Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism.
Study links blood sugar to newborn risks
2007-06-25 11:39:28
The higher a pregnant woman's level of blood sugar, the greater the risk to her newborn - whether the mother has diabetes or not, the largest study on the problem suggests.
Ugandan gov't bans baking flour improver
2007-06-23 19:36:49
Ugandan health ministry has banned the use of potassium bromate in making bread.
Video game addiction: A new diagnosis?
2007-06-22 13:56:52
The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It's video games, which for certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin, some doctors contend.
New treatment promising for Parkinson's
2007-06-22 10:34:58
An experimental treatment for Parkinson's disease seemed to improve symptoms - dramatically so, for one 59-year-old man - without causing side effects in an early study of a dozen patients.