By Ellin Holohan
People with diabetes are at significantly higher risk of developing all types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, finds a new study that bolsters previous research connecting the two illnesses.
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By Alan Mozes
Unless current health trends are reversed, five common, non-infectious diseases — cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and mental health problems — will cost the world $47 million in treatment costs and lost wages.
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By Randy Dotinga
A new study links low blood sugar in obese people to a greater desire within the brain for high-calorie foods, a finding that offers insight into why people who become overweight tend to stay that way.
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By Maureen Salamon
The widely used attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication methylphenidate — best known as Ritalin — appears to be tied to delayed puberty in male monkeys.
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By Alan Mozes
More than a third of patients who experience a severe heart attack are delayed in getting the emergency artery-opening intervention they require, new research reveals.
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By Steven Reinberg
The quality of care people with heart failure receive, along with outcomes, are significantly influenced by what type of insurance patients have, a new study finds.
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By Steven Reinberg
Although laser treatment and surgery are both effective in treating varicose veins, it appears that recurrence of one form of the problem is more common with the laser treatment, German researchers report.
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By Alan Mozes
Regardless of their race or ethnicity, Americans who suffer a traumatic injury face a greater risk of dying at hospitals that serve a high proportion of minority patients, a new study shows.
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By Jenifer Goodwin
Obese 8- and 9-year-olds are more likely to suffer socially and emotionally than their normal-weight peers, a new study finds.
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By Alan Mozes
American youngsters are much less likely to come down with the flu than their northern neighbors due to a public health policy in the United States that calls for vaccinating 2- to 4-year olds, according to a Canadian-American research team.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
When people are hungry, they are more likely to be angry or aggressive. And now researchers have found the reason why: serotonin levels — a hormone that helps regulate behavior — fluctuate when people are stressed out or haven’t ea
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Inadequate sleep and the absence of a good bedtime routine take a toll on the school performance of primary school children, research shows.
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By Serena Gordon
A program that combines counseling with physical activity may offer teens a more effective way to stop smoking.
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By Denise Mann
The stress of unemployment, foreclosures and putting food on the table may have helped drive a spike up in shaken baby syndrome and other types of abusive head trauma seen among infants and young children during the recent recession.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Football season can be fun for people who love the game, but some fans may become so fixated on the sport it threatens their relationships and quality of life, an expert warns.
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By Alan Mozes
Paralyzed veterans who learned to scuba dive experienced both physical and mental improvements, a new study suggests.
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By Alan Mozes
Heart disease. Cancer. Lung disease. Diabetes. All these scourges loom large as global killers and, unlike infectious illnesses, all are largely preventable, experts say.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Despite ongoing prevention efforts, a growing number of young children are being accidentally poisoned with medications, according to new research.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Although there are more hysterectomies in the United States than in any other industrialized nation in the world, many American women do not have a clear understanding of the procedure and how it will affect their bodies, according to a new study.
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