By Robert Preidt
Changes in brain areas that control mood may explain why some heavy smokers become depressed after they quit smoking, which increases their risk of resuming smoking.
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By Robert Preidt
Many Americans believe memory is more powerful, reliable and objective than it actually is, a new survey finds.
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By Robert Preidt
Obesity counseling should focus on neurobehavioral processes — the ways the brain controls eating behavior in response to biological and environmental factors — instead of personal choice and willpower, researchers suggest.
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By Robert Preidt
Matching your parenting style to your child’s personality can greatly reduce the youngster’s risk of depression and anxiety, researchers say.
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By HealthDay Staff
Government experts are continuing to seek the source of an outbreak of salmonella illness linked to ground turkey meat that has killed one person and sickened at least 76 more.
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By Steven Reinberg
The number of new HIV cases in the United States has remained stable at about 50,000 a year, but a recent jump in new cases among black gay and bisexual men is “alarming,” government health officials said.
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By Steven Reinberg
First they spread Lyme disease, and then babesiosis. Now, deer ticks carrying a newly identified bacterium are infecting residents of the midwestern United States with a disease called ehrlichiosis, and experts say it will likely appear in other ar
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By Jenifer Goodwin
A blood test that screens for certain markers in the blood called “autoantibodies” is showing promise in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease, researchers report.
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By Amanda Gardner
A new experimental drug for adults with asthma seems to improve lung function in patients who haven’t been helped with standard steroids.
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By Randy Dotinga
New research suggests that your life choices might not be the crucial factor in determining whether you make it to 95 or beyond; it finds that many extremely old people appear to have been as bad as everyone else at indulging in poor health habits d
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By Robert Preidt
The identification of a new multidrug-resistant strain of salmonella shows the importance of public health surveillance in a global food system, French scientists say.
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By Amanda MacMillan
Women are drastically more likely to develop a mental disorder at some point in their lives if they have been the victim of rape, sexual assault, stalking, or intimate-partner violence, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Med
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
From long plane rides to cramped road trips, family vacations can spell trouble, but parents can take steps before leaving home to help their families return with fond memories rather than horror stories, a pediatrician says.
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By Denise Mann
Special bioengineered spinal discs seem to grow and replace damaged discs — at least in rats, a new study shows.
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By Robert Preidt
A new study seems to confirm the widely held belief that many smartphone users obsessively check their devices for e-mails, social media and news.
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By Amanda Gardner
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should scrap the system it uses to approve and regulate “moderate-risk” medical devices such as artificial joints and heart pacemakers, according to a highly anticipated federal report released Frid
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By Robert Preidt
Low blood pressure while undergoing dialysis puts patients at increased risk for clots where their blood vessels are connected to the dialysis machine, a new study says.
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By Dennis Thompson
Any time there’s a violent tragedy — the killing of at least 86 people at a youth camp in Norway, the shootings of a congresswoman and others in Tucson, the Virginia Tech massacre — one question seems to ring clearer than others:
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By Robert Preidt
Excluding children from discussions about their hospital care can make them feel scared and angry, a new study finds.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Some ethnic groups are more likely than others to store dangerous fat around their internal organs as they gain weight, according to a new study.
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