By JANE E. BRODY
There are many reasons to stay properly hydrated, but only recently have scientists begun to consider diabetes prevention one of them. The amount of water you drink can play a role iHearing loss, a disability currently untreated in about 85 percent of
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
In an old “Seinfeld” episode, Elaine goes to see a dermatologist about a rash, and is left sitting on the table in the exam room, alone with her medical chart. She opens the folder and almost immediately makes a sour face.
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By JAMES WARREN
Consider the 1,001 little movements we take for granted, like reaching a few inches for a salt shaker or trying on new shoes. Most involve simple reflexes and signaling from the brain to our arms, hands and fingers. But for many people &mdash
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By CAROLYN SAYRE
On most days Giovanna Poli acts like a typical 12-year-old. She enjoys riding bikes with her brother, likes learning about the planets in science class and wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up.
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Drinking alcohol causes a pleasant feeling because it releases endorphins, the brain’s natural opioids. But a new study has found that problem drinkers differ from social drinkers in the way alcohol affects one part of the brain. The report ap
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By PAULA SPAN
Last spring, I wrote about a group of geriatricians and researchers assembling online a variety of geriatric indexes that do a reasonably good job of predicting mortality for those older than age 60. Since a number of tests and treatments ought to t
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By PAULA SPAN
Raise your hand if you’ve felt that people treat you with less respect or courtesy than others, that they act as if you’re not smart, that you get poorer service in stores and restaurants than others — in short, if you’ve fe
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By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
There are many reasons to stay properly hydrated, but only recently have scientists begun to consider diabetes prevention one of them. The amount of water you drink can play a role in how your body regulates blood sugar, researchers have found.
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By AMANDA SCHAFFER
Ebola infection can be prevented by manipulating a common cellular protein.
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By GINA KOLATA
At the gym last week I saw a guy lifting weights, working out his shoulders while two friends urged him on. He alternated two similar exercises with heavy weights, repeating one exercise 10 times and then the other one 10 times, never resting between s
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Nearly a third of middle-aged Americans regularly take a baby aspirin in the hope of preventing a heart attack or a stroke or lowering their cancer risk. But new research shows that aspirin is not for everyone, and that in some patients this so-called
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By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
One afternoon, I heard a colleague let out an exasperated groan in front of the hospital computers. His patient had been admitted. Again. Overweight for much of his youth, the patient developed diabetes in his early 30s, then high blood pre
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By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
In certain quarters of academia, it’s all the rage these days to view human behavior through the lens of evolutionary biology. What survival advantages, researchers ask, may lie hidden in our actions, even in our pathologies?
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By Gene Emery
Entries into long distance running events has doubled over the past 10 years, but doctors warn
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By Robert Preidt
Lowered testosterone levels are associated with the loss of lean muscle mass and lower body strength in older men, a new study finds.
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By Robert Preidt
A new study is challenging the widely held notion that men’s minds are preoccupied with one topic: sex.
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By Dennis Thompson
The data may at first seem dire: More people are living with HIV/AIDS than ever before in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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By Anne Harding
“Sexting”—the practice of taking sexually explicit photos and sending them to peers via cell phones or the Internet—may be less common among U.S. adolescents than previous research and media reports have suggested, according&
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
A new examination of the origin of syphilis supports the theory that the sexually transmitted disease was carried to Europe aboard Christopher Columbus’ ships as they sailed home from the New World.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Women with normal pregnancies that were misdiagnosed as ectopic who were treated with methotrexate in the first trimester either miscarried or gave birth to a severely deformed baby, the results of a small study suggest.
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