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Speech tool helps target Parkinson’s disease
Health professionals may soon have a new method of diagnosing Parkinson’s disease, one that is noninvasive and inexpensive, and, in [...]
Recipes for Health: Pear Cranberry Galette — Recipes for Health
To ease your holiday cooking plan, this juicy free-form tart can be frozen before or after baking.
First unrefrigerated vaccine makes African debut
A meningitis vaccine widely used in Africa can now be transported for several days without the cost of being kept cold.
Unemployment may increase heart attack risk
Unemployment may damage your heart, according to a study linking joblessness with heart attacks in older workers.
Chronic pain in parents appears associated with chronic pain in adolescents and young adults
Chronic pain in parents appears to be associated with chronic nonspecific pain and chronic multisite pain in adolescents and young adults.
Faulty development of immature brain cells causes hydrocephalus
Scientists have discovered a new cause of neonatal hydrocephalus. The team discovered that cell-signaling defects disrupt immature brain cells involved in normal brain development. Treatment with lithium bypasses the defect...
Medications are being discontinued, and the pharmacist may not know
More than 85,000 medications are discontinued each year by physicians, yet while physicians share this information with their patients, it is too often not shared with the pharmacists. This communication...
Genetic factor holds key to blood vessel health
Researchers have identified a genetic factor that prevents blockages from forming in blood vessels, a discovery that could lead to new therapies for cardiovascular diseases. Researchers found that a shortage...
High Vitamin D levels in pregnancy may protect mother more than baby against multiple sclerosis
Pregnant women who have higher levels of vitamin D in their blood may have a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis than women with lower levels, while their babies may...
Electronic visits offer accurate diagnoses, may lead to overprescribing of antibiotics
One of the first studies to compare patients who see their doctors in person to those who receive care through the Internet, known as an e-visit, underscores both the promise...
New tumor tracking technique may improve outcomes for lung cancer patients
Researchers have shown that a real-time tracking technique can better predict and track tumor motion and deliver higher levels of radiation to lung cancer patients and others with moving tumor...
Smoking in pregnancy tied to lower reading scores
Researchers have found that children born to mothers who smoked more than one pack per day during pregnancy struggled on tests designed to measure how accurately a child reads aloud...
News Analysis: Tainted-Drug Deaths Spawn Heated Debate Over F.D.A.’s Powers
A Congressional panel and Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the F.D.A. chief, tussled in a hearing over the meningitis outbreak caused by a drug from New England Compounding Center.
The Consumer: Out-of-Network Bills for In-Network Health Care
Check with your insurer before paying an unexpected charge.
Ecstasy Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Shows Promise
Some veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are seeking treatment from Michael and Ann Mithoefer, a husband-and-wife team who combine psychotherapy with doses of Ecstasy.
Ovarian cancer death rates drop 20% in a decade
Official figures show 8.8 deaths per 100,000 women in 2010, down from 11.2 in 2001Death rates from ovarian cancer, one of the hardest cancers to detect and treat, have dropped by 20%...
Stress Reduction Talks Uncommon at Doctor Visits
Few doctors in primary care take time to discuss stress reduction with their patients.
Personal Health: When Treating Cancer Is Not an Option
Aggressive chemotherapy when death is but weeks or months away can seriously compromise the quality of patients' remaining time and may delay their preparations for the end of life.
Well: Soggy Pants Not Parents' Fault, Study Finds
Can the wrong type of toilet training lead to incontinence later in childhood? Probably not, a new study concludes.
Teenage Boys, Worried About Body Image, Take Health Risks
It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image. Many boys have begun to take unhealthy measures to reshape their bodies.
Anti-oxidants: A Disappointment or Worse
Oxidative damage was the prevailing theory of aging in the 1990s, and anti-oxidants became the preferred prescription for youthfulness. But [...]
It's Complicated: Work Hour Limits For Surgical Residents Don't Reduce Risk
Work-hour caps for surgical residents designed to lessen complication rates have not accomplished that. Instead, the period after work-hour limits were introduced saw an uptick in complication rates , according...
Texas Biomed Files Patent for a Novel HIV Vaccine Strategy
The Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio has applied for a patent for a genetically-engineered vaccine strategy to prevent HIV infection that targets the outer layers of body structures...
NYC Thanksgiving Parade Balloons Survive Sandy, Parade to Go On
Neighborhoods hit hardest by Sandy to get special seating.
NFL chief talks player safety at HSPH
In 1905, 18 college football players died of injuries — mainly skull fractures — sustained playing the game. Another 150 were injured. The high level of casualties came at a time when...
Yellowknife mothers donate breast milk to Edmonton mom
A group of Yellowknife mothers is coming together to send breast milk to an Edmonton mother. Ashley King cannot breastfeed her newborn baby girl because of the chemotherapy she is...
Why Thai women cut off their husbands' penises
An epidemic of penile amputations in Thailand led researchers to inquire into what was going onAbout once per decade, the medical profession takes a careful look back at Thailand's plethora of penile amputations....
Walkerton heart risks not raised 10 years after E. coli hit
People in Walkerton, Ont. who fell ill during an E. coli disaster show no elevated risk of heart disease after a decade, researchers have found.