By Maureen Salamon
After a lifetime of being told that they’re “winners” who are “special,” today’s young people crave these boosts to their self-esteem more than sex, drinking, money or food, new research suggests.
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By Amanda Gardner
There’s a worrisome uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged and even younger Americans, and some experts link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex over the past few decades.
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By Robert Preidt
Screening rates for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia are significantly higher in the United States among young black and Hispanic women than among young white women, which might explain why black and Hispanic women have higher reported ra
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By Robert Preidt
Among injection drug users, new cases of HIV infection have declined dramatically in the past two decades, but the number of new infections from the hepatitis C virus have dropped only a small amount, a new study reports.
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By Lynne Peeples
Boys and young men who receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine appear to be at reduced risk of contracting the virus and developing the genital warts associated with the common sexually transmitted disease, according to a large international
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By Robert Preidt
Women should have an annual ob-gyn exam whether they need a Pap test or not, says the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
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By Anne Harding
People who carry the genital herpes virus but have no visible symptoms—and may not even be aware they’re infected—are still capable of spreading the virus about 10 percent of the time, according to a new study in the Journal of
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By Robert Preidt
Hospitalization of seniors may cause temporary memory loss and difficulty understanding discharge instructions, but many return to normal within a month, a new study says.
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By Maureen Salamon
Given the option, parents considering personal genetic testing to predict their own risks for common conditions are also likely to have their children tested, a new study suggests.
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By Maureen Salamon
With another season of warm-weather sports under way, experts are cautioning that many parents don’t take sports injury prevention seriously enough — that they consider commonplace sprains, bruises and pulled muscles “just part of
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By Anne Harding
If you’re going under the knife, you might want to ask your surgeon what she had to drink the night before. A new study suggests that surgeons are more error prone and less efficient following a night of drinking than at other times, even if
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By Steven Reinberg
The risk that children will develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rises with every week they are born short of full term, a new study suggests.
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By Robert Preidt
Motorcycle deaths in the United States fell by about 2 percent between 2009 and 2010, the second year in a row fatalities have declined, according to a new report.
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By Jenifer Goodwin
About 93 percent of parents said their children either had or were going to get all of the recommended vaccinations, and more than three-fourths said they trusted their doctor’s advice on immunizations, two new surveys find.
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By Amanda Gardner
The first new guidelines in 27 years for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease could double the number of Americans defined as having the brain-robbing illness.
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By Randy Dotinga
Swedish tourists who saw the most severe trauma in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami have taken longer than their peers to recover psychologically, a new study has found.
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By Randy Dotinga
Hospitals are using a pricey blood-clotting drug in treating people who do not have hemophilia, a rare disorder in which blood does not clot normally — even though its use in such patients is potentially risky, according to new research.
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
Even Without Sores, Genital Herpes Carriers Infectious 10% of the Time
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By Jennifer Warner
Government Strategy Calls for Better Access to Health Care
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
New Effort by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden Focuses on Military Families
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