By Steven Reinberg
With plenty of influenza vaccine available, U.S. health officials urged Americans Wednesday to get a flu shot.
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By Robert Preidt
Women whose first baby died within a year of birth are at increased risk for stillbirth in subsequent pregnancies, and the risk is especially high among black women, researchers report.
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By Robert Preidt
In addition to the many known health benefits of quitting smoking, researchers have now discovered another good reason to kick the habit — it may help improve your everyday memory.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
How children are treated for psoriasis may depend on whether they see a pediatrician, dermatologist or internist, a new study suggests.
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By Robert Preidt
Mother and child death rates are declining faster than in the previous decade in more than half the countries around the world, an indication that international efforts to improve mother and child health are having an effect, researchers say.
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By HealthDay staff
Traces of radioactive fallout from the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged in the March earthquake were detected around San Francisco Bay, scientists report, but at such low levels they posed no health risk to residents.
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By Amanda Gardner
An experimental drug may offer a thin ray of hope to people suffering from the rapidly fatal lung disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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By Maureen Salamon
Most depictions of movement disorders on the popular video-sharing website YouTube are not what they claim to be, warn a group of neurologists who reviewed them.
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By Serena Gordon
Since the 2006 introduction of routine inoculation against rotavirus — a leading cause of diarrhea in infants and young children — almost 65,000 fewer American children have been hospitalized and about $278 million in healthcare costs h
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By HealthDay News
Waiting more than a day between dialysis treatments ups the risk of death and hospitalization in people with kidney disease, new research suggests.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Women with breast implants who think breast-feeding will change how their breasts look are less likely to nurse their babies successfully, according to a new study.
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By Amanda MacMillan
People with depression are more likely to have a stroke than their mentally healthy peers, and their strokes are more likely to be fatal, according to a new analysis published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
People affected by epilepsy are nearly eight times more likely than those without it to develop schizophrenia, and those with schizophrenia are also six times more likely to have epilepsy than people who are not schizophrenic, a new study suggests.
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By Maureen Salamon
Whether they’re fed by bottle or breast, babies seem to turn out smarter when nourished with healthy fatty acids found in breast milk and some formulas, two new studies indicate.
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By Jenifer Goodwin
Forty years after President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and pledged to put the country’s resources to work to find better treatments for cancer, substantial victories have been scored against some, but not all, cancers.
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By Randy Dotinga
New research finds that compared to mammograms, MRI screenings for breast cancer saved money used for diagnosis and boosted the likelihood that high-risk, underserved women who were specially targeted would return for follow-up appointments.
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By Randy Dotinga
Black women who develop breast cancer are more likely than white women to suffer a second cancer in the other breast, and those who are diagnosed under age 45 are more likely to get a primary breast cancer of a more aggressive form, new research in
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By Anne Harding
People with diabetes are at increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke at an early age. But that’s not the only worry: Diabetes appears to dramatically increase a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other type
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By Scott Roberts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded approval for the Amgen bone-building drug Prolia (denosumab) to include prostate cancer or breast cancer patients who are taking certain hormonal therapies.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Keeping a daily journal with a positive slant may ease the effects of psychological trauma and depression among men with testicular cancer, according to a small new pilot study.
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