By Robert Preidt
Homeless people have higher death rates and a much lower life expectancy than other people, a new Danish study finds.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
People who get six to nine hours of sleep each night rate their quality of life higher and are less likely to feel depressed than those who sleep less, according to a new study.
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By HealthDay News
Not only do cooler heads prevail, they might also sleep better, according to researchers who say they have developed a cooling cap that, when worn during sleeptime, may help treat insomnia.
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By Ella Quittner
The snooze button on your alarm clock may not be the only casualty of a sleepless night.
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By Denise Mann
People who are sleepy by day may be unable to resist calorie-laden comfort foods, new research shows.
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By Amanda Gardner
Young children whose moms suffer from depression are at heightened risk for behavioral troubles, but a new study shows that day care may help ease the risk.
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By Scott Roberts
Potiga (ezogabine) tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat partial epileptic seizures in adults, the agency said Monday.
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By Robert Preidt
Patient-focused outcomes are emphasized in 10 updated performance measures for people with coronary artery disease and hypertension that were released Monday by a trio of major U.S. medical groups.
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By Serena Gordon
A batter’s best chance of hitting it out of the park may depend on the time of the game, and whether or not that batter is a morning person or a night owl.
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By John Leighty
When wives can’t fall asleep, that tends to trigger marital tensions the next day, a new study suggests, whereas the sleep issues of husbands barely impact spousal relationships.
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By Amanda Gardner
The low-fat, low-glycemic diet often promoted for general health and well-being may lower the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease if adopted early in life, researchers say.
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By Randy Dotinga
Playing a memory-straining video game can help children solve problems more easily, a goal that can be difficult to achieve through so-called cognitive training, a new study suggests.
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By Amanda Gardner
Children who live with dogs and cats are less likely to develop allergies to those animals later in life, but only if the pet is under the same roof while the child is still an infant, a new study suggests.
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By Steven Reinberg
Breast-feeding appears to reduce the risk of SIDS by up to 73 percent, especially when babies are exclusively breast-fed, a new study suggests.
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By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
During high-risk surgery, only about one-third of anesthesiologists measure oxygen flow throughout their patient’s body, even though this heart function can significantly affect recovery, according to a new survey.
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By Amanda Gardner
A new poll finds little support for privatizing Medicare, even though most people agree the government-sponsored health insurance program for older Americans needs major changes if it is to survive.
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By Serena Gordon
Exposure to pets in infancy and childhood probably won’t increase a child’s risk of developing an allergy to cats and dogs, and may actually protect against such allergies, new research suggests.
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By Robert Preidt
Consuming high amounts of folate — through supplements and foods fortified with folic acid — does not disrupt a healthy body’s use of vitamin B12, according to new research.
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By Robert Preidt
Weight-loss surgery doesn’t decrease the risk of death among severely obese middle-aged adults, a new study says.
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By Robert Preidt
Heart attack patients whose ambulances are diverted from the nearest ER to another one further away are at greater risk of dying — not just soon after the heart attack, but for up to a year after the intervention, a new study finds.
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