By Maureen Salamon
Using Twitter to track people’s moods from every corner of the globe, new research suggests that folks seem to awaken in good cheer and get grumpier as the workday progresses, regardless of where they live.
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By Robert Preidt
New genes associated with type 1 diabetes have been uncovered in a large-scale analysis of genetic data related to the disease.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Men over 75 with prostate cancer who are otherwise healthy are being undertreated for their condition, according to a new study.
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By Robert Preidt
Picky eating is normal in children, but a pediatric feeding disorder is a much more serious problem that can affect a child’s physical and mental development, an expert says.
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By Denise Mann
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is once again cracking down on eye care professionals who make false safety claims and promises about the popular LASIK eye surgery.
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By Jenifer Goodwin
Having blood pressure readings that are just slightly above normal — a condition known as prehypertension — appears to raise the risk of stroke, new research finds.
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By Robert Preidt
Adolescents with large social networks of friends and acquaintances are more likely to start drinking alcohol than teens who play a less central role in their high school social scene, new research finds.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Just like extremely premature babies, infants born between 33 and 34 weeks’ gestation can have impaired lung function at ages 8 to 9, but in these moderately premature children, lung function may improve by the time they are teenagers, resear
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By Robert Preidt
The drinking habits of the friends of a teenager’s boyfriend or girlfriend may have more influence on the youngster’s drinking than the habits of the teen’s own friends or romantic partner.
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By Jenifer Goodwin
The use of stimulant medications such as Ritalin or Adderall in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is continuing to climb, although at a slower pace than in decades past, a new study finds.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
People who experience what feels like drums pounding in their chest, shortness of breath, chest pain and dizziness may suffer from the common but potentially dangerous heart arrhythmia known as atrial fibrillation.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
A new study shows that levels of amyloid beta, a byproduct of brain activity that is considered a marker for Alzheimer’s disease, normally rise during the day and decrease at night.
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By Randy Dotinga
New research suggests that sick people who talk about advance directives don’t die earlier than their counterparts who don’t have those discussions about end-of-life care.
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By Robert Preidt
The influenza virus that killed 50 million people worldwide in 1918 was circulating in the United States at least four months before the outbreak reached pandemic levels in the fall of that year, researchers say.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
About one in six asthma sufferers carries a genetic variant that’s associated with a poor response to commonly prescribed inhaled asthma medications called corticosteroids, according to a new study.
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By Amanda Gardner
The ongoing outbreak of food-borne illness connected to listeria-tainted cantaloupes has now infected 72 people in 18 states and claimed 13 lives, U.S. health officials said Wednesday, making it the deadliest such outbreak in more than a decade.
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By Amanda Gardner
Many more Americans may be at risk of having a stroke than previously thought.
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By Anne Harding
The millions of middle-aged men who take saw-palmetto supplements to cope with the symptoms of an enlarged prostate might as well be popping sugar pills.
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By Robert Preidt
A number of recurrent genetic errors common to advanced lethal prostate cancers have been identified by scientists who conducted the first complete genome mapping of these types of cancers.
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By Robert Preidt
Rude employee behavior is a major problem that drives customers away from many businesses, a new U.S. study finds.
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