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Depression treatment, increased physical activity in African-Americans may reduce heart disease
Identifying and treating depression, including increasing physical activity, may improve quality of life and reduce cardiovascular disease and death in African Americans, according to reports presented at the American Heart...
Younger Breast Cancer Patients Have Greater Chance Of Recurrence, Especially After Certain Treatments
Breast cancer patients 35 years old and younger have higher rates of their cancer returning after treatment than older women patients with the same stage of cancer, and their risk...
Virus-free Embryonic-like Stem Cells Made From Skin Of Parkinson's Disease Patients
Deploying a method that removes potentially cancer-causing genes, researchers have "reprogrammed" human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. Scientists then used these so-called induced pluripotent stem...
Drug Blocks Two Of World's Deadliest Emerging Viruses
Two highly lethal viruses that have emerged in recent outbreaks are susceptible to chloroquine, an established drug used to prevent and treat malaria, according to a new basic science study...
Zebrafish offer glimpse of heart disease
SAN DIEGO, March 7 (UPI) -- Researchers in California are using young zebrafish to study the effects of excess cholesterol on arteries.
Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer
Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current...
Lack of strategies to manage MRI wait lists a key reason for excessive wait times
A new study headed by Dr Tom Feasby, Dean of UCalgary's Faculty of Medicine, shows that while Canada lags behind other countries in the number of diagnostic imaging devices, more...
M.R.I.’s May Burn Patients Who Wear Drug Patches
Federal health officials warned that tiny metal elements in some nicotine and other drug patches can overheat during M.R.I scans.
Horse Taming, Milking Started in Kazakhstan
People on the steppes of what is now Kazakhstan were the first to domesticate horses and even used them for milk, new evidence suggests.
Health authority says it cannot link listeriosis death with Maple Leaf Foods outbreak
Health officials in Quebec now say they cannot confirm that the listeriosis death of a man in January was linked to the 2008 outbreak tied to tainted meat from Maple...
New speciality to focus on advanced heart failure and heart transplantation
The new medical subspeciality of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology will lead the way in providing technically advanced yet cost-effective care for patients with heart failure, says a perspective...
Pulmonary hypertension in children may result from reduced activity of gene regulator
Too little activity by gene regulators called PPARs appears to be a major player in the irreversible lung damage that can occur in children with heart defects, researchers say...
New research links diabetes to cognitive deterioration
Blindness, renal failure, stroke and heart disease are potential complications of type 2 diabetes, which currently afflicts more than 15 million Americans. Now research from Tel Aviv University has found...
New York doctors testing heated chemo for rare cancer
Long Island cancer doctors have borrowed a page from medicine's past to write a new chapter on how to address a rare malignancy by infusing heated chemotherapy directly into the...
Education may improve hospital prescription rate of emergency contraception to teens
Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department visits because of misinformation about how the medicine works, according to a study...
Health Canada finds bisphenol A in soft drinks
A Health Canada study of canned pop has found the vast majority of the drinks contain the chemical bisphenol A - a substance that imitates the female hormone estrogen and...
Obama says US must solve health care problems now
(AP) -- The nation can't afford to wait for the economy to recover before tackling out-of-control medical costs, President Barack Obama is telling some of the most powerful players...
Chemotherapy drug may in fact strengthen some cancer cells
Study suggests different therapies are needed to treat different cells
Sheriff Sues Craigslist Over Sex Ads
The sheriff's department for Chicago's Cook County says it's suing Craigslist, calling the popular online classifieds site the largest source of prostitution in the United States.
Penile extender increased flaccid length by almost a third says independent clinical study
Men who wore a penile extender every day for six months were able to increase the flaccid length of their penis by up to 32% and their erectile function by...
Long ER lines force sick teens to leave Halifax for care
Emergency room lineups in Halifax forced three teenagers who overdosed on medication Wednesday to travel farther afield for medical treatment.
Freon leaks into Ottawa River from federal plant
The City of Ottawa says the release of more than 2,700 kilograms of Freon-22 into the Ottawa River does not pose a risk to drinking water, but it carries other...
Ecologists Propose First Prevention for White-Nose Syndrome Death in Bats
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a poorly understood condition that, in the two years since its discovery, has spread to at least seven northeastern states and killed as many as half...
Heart Hazards Of Woeful Wives
Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease,...
Victory bittersweet for drug liability case victim
(AP) -- A Vermont musician who lost her arm after a botched drug injection says the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold a $6.7 million verdict against the pharmaceutical...
Surviving lung cancer
Countless people have heard the phrase, 'You have lung cancer,' but only 50 can say they've completed a new treatment at Temple University that doubles their chances of surviving the...
Albany Takes Step to Repeal ’70s-Era Drug Laws
The New York State Assembly took pivotal steps to repeal much of what remains of the ’70s-era drug laws.
Yoga Enthusiasts Hear the Call of Kirtan
More Americans are introduced to chanting through yoga classes and they’re warming up to the practice.