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Cytomegalovirus And Genes Linked To Schizophrenia Risk - Even In A Fetus
Viruses and genes interact in a way that may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia significantly - even in a developing fetus, according to an international team which scanned the...
Recipes for Health: Bulgur With Middle Eastern Seasoning — Recipes for Health
A simple skillet supper with a savory mixture of mushrooms and spinach.
New clues to causes of peripheral nerve damage
Although peripheral neuropathies afflict some 20 million Americans, their underlying causes are not completely understood. Now, scientists have shown that damage to energy factories in Schwann cells, which grow alongside...
Wide variation in Cesarean delivery rates among US hospitals
Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery in the United States, performed on 1.67 million American women annually. Yet hospital cesarean rates vary widely according to new research.
In Sickness, Marriage May Not Boost Health
Marital health benefit seems strongest for the healthiest.
Life Spans May Be Shrinking for Some American Women
The life expectancy for some American women seems to be on the decline, especially in rural areas in the South and the West
Early antiretroviral treatment reduces viral reservoirs in HIV-infected teens
A new study highlights the long-term benefits of early antiretroviral therapy initiated in infants.
Protein synthesis blocker may hold key to reducing effects of traumatic events
Reducing fear and stress following a traumatic event could be as simple as providing a protein synthesis blocker to the brain, report a team of researchers in a new paper.
New data show countries around the world grappling with changing health challenges
Alzheimer's disease is the fastest growing threat to health in the US. HIV/AIDS and alcohol are severely eroding the health of Russians. Violence is claiming the lives of young men...
Training Immune Cells To Combat Disease
Immunology: Researchers trap immune cells in droplets of water in oil in hopes of reprogramming them
Fukushima disaster predicted to raise cancer rates slightly
World Health Organization report expects cancer risk to rise marginally, but doesn't put a figure on the number of deaths expected
What's Killing Us: Stats, Tuberculosis & the McKeown Thesis | Vanessa Heggie
A recent report in the Lancet uses figures from the Global Burden of Disease Study (2010) to suggest that Britain is 'falling behind' other European countries in terms of health and longevity. Sometimes...
Public supports legal interventions to fight obesity, noncommunicable diseases
The public is very supportive of government action aimed at changing lifestyle choices that can lead to obesity, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases—but they’re less likely to support...
The New Old Age Blog: Fear of Falling
For many seniors, the real risk and potential complications of falls can be exceeded by the morbid fear associated with going to the ground.
A vaccine that works in newborns? Promising compound may help protect babies during vulnerable window
The underdeveloped immune systems of newborns don't respond to most vaccines, leaving them at high risk for infections like rotavirus, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcus. Researchers have identified a potent...
Japan warns about smog drifting from China
A local government in southwestern Japan on Tuesday advised residents to stay indoors or wear masks when they go outside in the nation's first official health warning over smog drifting...
The Physics Of Resurrection
Understanding and explaining how the Universe works has always been a ultimate goal for mankind. It is impossible to live our conscious existence without asking ourselves whether there is a...
Putting Tests to the Test: Many Medical Procedures Prove Unnecessary and Risky
The routine use of 130 different medical screenings, tests and treatments are often unnecessary and should be scaled back, according to 25 medical specialty organizations. The medical societies jointly released...
Sociologists find treatment works, but only for urban parolees
There are several risk factors that influence whether an offender walks out of prison for good or one day returns to the correctional system. States make a significant investment in...
Study uncovers enzyme's double life, critical role in cancer blood supply
Studied for decades for their essential role in making proteins within cells, several amino acids known as tRNA synthetases were recently found to have an unexpected -- and critical --...
F.D.A. Panel Advises Against Two Medicines to Treat Hot Flashes
The F.D.A.’s committee members said both medicines offered only marginal benefit, reducing the number of hot flashes by only about one a day compared to a placebo.
News in Brief: HIV may increase heart attack risk
In large study of veterans, infected men had higher chance of the condition than did men without virus
Well: PMS Symptoms Linked to Diet
A decade-long study of more than 3,000 women found that dietary iron may reduce the risk for premenstrual syndrome, while potassium intake may increase it.
The New Old Age: For a Hospice Pioneer, Still a Tough Call
For more than 25 years, Paul Brenner led nonprofit hospice organizations. Yet when his health faltered, choosing to become a hospice patient himself proved unexpectedly difficult.
Honey improves antibiotics
Manuka honey can work with antibiotics to treat bacterial infections more effectively and stop the emergence of resistance, research has found.
Hockey parents and fans said to support raising body-checking age
A large majority of Canadian hockey parents and fans support raising the age when body checking is allowed, which would significantly reduce the number of head and spinal cord injuries...
Why your brain tires when exercising
For the first time ever, a research team is able to explain why our brains feel tired when we exercise. By mapping the mechanism behind so-called central fatigue, the researchers...
Changing how food aid is allocated 'may save more lives'
More children's lives could be saved if emergency food is distributed using alternative metrics to those recommended, suggests a paper.