By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Researchers have identified five new genes that play a role in people’s risk for heart attack and coronary artery disease — the most common cause of premature death and disability in the world, according to a new study.
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By Serena Gordon
Almost 7 percent of men 65 and older who have a prostate biopsy are hospitalized within 30 days of the procedure, a new study indicates.
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By Robert Preidt
There were 134 waterborne disease outbreaks associated with swimming pools and other recreational water in the United States in 2007-08, and 36 outbreaks associated with drinking water, according to two federal reports released Thursday.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Physicians fail to give information about breast reconstruction to more than half of uninsured women who have had mastectomies due to breast cancer, according to a new study.
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By Alan Mozes
Researchers are getting closer to scanning the human brain, decoding what they find there, and then replaying the “movies in our heads” for all to see.
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By Randy Dotinga
A new study suggests that liposuction — which plastic surgeons often use to sculpt the bodies of people who aren’t extremely overweight — can lower levels of a type of blood fat called triglycerides.
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By Steven Reinberg
Over-the-counter asthma inhalers containing chloroflouorocarbons (CFCs), which can damage the ozone layer, will not be made or sold after Dec. 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.
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By Robert Preidt
Among U.S. patients aged 40 and older with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), blacks have the highest rate of hospital readmission, a new report reveals.
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By Amanda Gardner
Researchers have shot another arrow through the credibility of claims that a virus likely causes chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
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By Steven Reinberg
People with type 2 diabetes taking the drugs Januvia or Byetta might have an increased risk of developing pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, a preliminary study suggests.
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By Steven Reinberg
Bed bug infestations are bad enough, but a new report finds that more than 100 Americans have become sickened from exposure to the insecticides used to eliminate the pests.
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By Randy Dotinga
A new study finds that blacks and Hispanics are less likely to develop acute leukemia than whites. But if they do become ill, they’re much more likely to die.
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By Randy Dotinga
A cardiac rehabilitation program appeared to reduce some of the risk factors for a second stroke among patients who have suffered mild strokes or the mini-strokes known as transient ischemic attacks (TIA), researchers have found.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
There is a genetic link between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, two common and often disabling brain disorders, a new study indicates.
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By Randy Dotinga
A new study finds that black and Hispanic women with breast cancer suffer more stress than white women, and the researchers connected the extra stress to more aggressive tumors.
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By Robert Preidt
More thorough donor screening and more advanced organ testing to help protect transplant patients from infectious diseases are recommended in a draft of an updated organ transplant guideline released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Most of the 220,000 people who undergo weight loss surgery every year are not aware of the follow-up procedures they could have to remove any loose skin they may have, according to a new study by plastic surgeons.
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By Alan Mozes
As if the heartache of divorce wasn’t hardship enough, it appears that women enduring marital break-up may also have to deal with hair loss.
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By Alan Mozes
Exposure to high levels of traffic-related air pollution appears to temporarily boost the risk for experiencing a heart attack, new British research suggests.
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