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A lifesaving shock from an implanted heart defibrillator provides relief that a crisis was avoided, but new research suggests it can also be a sign that more trouble is ahead.
The number of teen suicides has fallen slightly but the rate remains disturbingly high, researchers said, possibly fueled by drug warnings that have scared many from using antidepressants.
Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain. The results from the small Australian study were only modest. But they back up observational studies showing potential mental benefits from physical activity.
Television ads for the world's top-selling drug, cholesterol fighter Lipitor, are back, six months after Pfizer Inc. pulled them amid charges its use of a celebrity doctor endorser who's never practiced medicine misled the public.
Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.
Results so far from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with caution until more is known, editors of a leading medical journal urged Tuesday.
Children born to older fathers face a greater chance of developing bipolar disorder, according to one of the largest studies linking mental illness with advanced paternal age.
Tips to avoid medication errors, including mix-ups of drugs whose names look or sound alike:
Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine.
For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have?
The Dalai Lama's spokesman says the Tibetan spiritual leader has been discharged from the hospital where he has been undergoing tests for abdominal discomfort.
The Dalai Lama will leave a Mumbai hospital on Monday after undergoing tests for abdominal discomfort, his spokesman said Sunday.
Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday.
An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma has sickened more than 200 people and killed at least one person, state health officials said Tuesday.
Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease.
Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.
In an Aug. 26 story about a new TV ad linking hot dogs with cancer, The Associated Press, relying on figures provided by a nutrition adviser to the American Institute for Cancer Research, erroneously reported average risks for colon cancer and how eating hot dogs affects those risks. Karen Collins said she misstated the average adult's lifetime risk for getting colorectal cancer, which is about 5 percent, not 5.8 percent.
Would you eat a clone? What about the offspring of a clone? Food companies are sensing that many of us won't, and are positioning themselves accordingly.
Supplementing with vitamin K may improve insulin resistance in men, according to a new study published in Diabetes Care.
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A universal flu vaccine which could mean an end to the annual jab is being tested on UK volunteers. It targets a different part of the virus to current vaccines, which means it does not have to be altered every year to match circulating strains.
Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it.
This writer does a wonderful job writing about subject matter that is such a taboo. It even says why it is relevent to write about the old subject now- Sarah Palin's pregnant teenage daughter.
This opinion piece does a wonderful job explaining complex subject matter in simple enough anyone could understand.
Re Scariest Hospitals Perpetrators Unknown to Victims / Suspects Names: On Oct. 27th or 28th or /29th' 07 Incident at Charleston General Hospital Morris and Washington Street Charleston, W.Va. Kanawha County Male Suspect: White, curly brown hair, apx.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese people with diabetes are just as likely to go undiagnosed as their slimmer peers with the disease, Harvard Medical School researchers report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with lower levels of vitamin D in their blood may be at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research published in the journal Epidemiology this month.
A regimen of supplements and lifestyle coaching is just as effective as statin medication for reducing levels of� "bad" cholesterol.
If you find yourself on the wrong end of a huge, massive medical bill, then you need to checkout this CBS News video, "Truth About Hospital Bills." There's also an accompanying article you can read. Here's what I find so interesting from it . . .
More sex addicts are seeking help in connection with Internet porn, cybersex
Those who suffer from skin cancer have an increased chance of getting other kinds of cancers. Does this raise health concerns for John McCain?
Want to be a better father, trim that gut, blow 'em away in your next presentation and make your wife moan with delight? Take a lesson from the tortoise.
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