HealthDay News
- Proximity Affects Influence of Online 'Health Buddies' (09.02.2010)
- Study finds long-distance friends less likely to sway behavior than close-knit social networks
- Seniors Get Boost From Bad News About the Young (09.02.2010)
- Study found older people preferred negative stories about younger folks
- East Coast Residents Should Prepare for Hurricane Earl: FEMA (09.02.2010)
- Feds advise shoring up homes, storing water and food, and monitoring radio, TV
- Health Highlights: Sept. 2, 2010 (09.02.2010)
- Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses Offer Coverage: Report (09.02.2010)
- Tax credits, new options will leave more employees insured, Commonwealth Fund study says
- Prescription Drug Use Rising in U.S., CDC Reports (09.02.2010)
- Statins, asthma meds, antidepressants and stimulants top the list
- Study Identifies Risks for Painkiller Addiction (09.02.2010)
- Greater odds if you're younger than 65, have a history of drug abuse and depression, and use psychiatric meds
- Many Americans Don't Even Know They're Fat (09.02.2010)
- Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds 30 percent of those overweight think they're normal size
- Vets With Stress Disorder More Likely to Develop Dementia (09.02.2010)
- Those with PTSD at greater risk than peers with combat injuries but no stress disorder, study found
- Health Tip: Get Ready for Baby's Bath (09.02.2010)
- Be prepared before you put baby in the tub
- Health Tip: If You Have Cirrhosis (09.02.2010)
- Here's how it could impair your liver
- Even After Leaving Abuser, Moms' Mental Health Declines (09.01.2010)
- Levels of depression and anxiety still high at least 2 years after escaping abusive relationship, study finds
- Lower Blood Pressure May Help Sicker Kidney Patients (09.01.2010)
- Standard goal may not be low enough for those with protein in their urine, study finds
- Diet Pill Meridia Ups Heart Attack Risk: Study (09.01.2010)
- While researchers saw no rise in deaths, some experts wonder if this drug has a future
- Mental 'Exercise' May Only Hide Signs of Alzheimer's (09.01.2010)
- Games, reading help mask trouble in brain, study suggests, making later progress of disease seem quicker
- Double-Dose Plavix Benefits Certain Patients, Study Finds (09.01.2010)
- And higher-dose aspirin is no more effective than low dose, researchers say
- Overactive Blood Platelets May Play Role in Lupus (09.01.2010)
- Study suggests anti-clotting drug Plavix might help treat disease
- Case Study Reveals 'Percussionist Wrist' Injury (09.01.2010)
- Similar to tennis elbow, painless growth appears to be instance of overuse
- Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked to Lower Lung Cancer Rate in Mice (09.01.2010)
- Findings reflect those of population studies in humans, researchers say
- Immune System Research Sees Many Similarities Among People (09.01.2010)
- Findings may lead to better diagnosis, treatment of cancers, autoimmune diseases, study says
- Lung Damage From Secondhand Smoke Observed in Rats (09.01.2010)
- Findings may aid efforts to develop new ways to treat respiratory diseases in people, researchers say
- To Not Sleep, Perchance to Shorten Your Life (09.01.2010)
- Study finds insomniac men were more likely to die earlier
- Health Highlights: Sept. 1, 2010 (09.01.2010)
- Elective Surgery Patients Often Report Poor Recovery (09.01.2010)
- 1 year after procedure, 17% have more pain and 24% have less vitality than before, study finds
- Health Tip: When Something's Stuck in Your Eye (09.01.2010)
- Take care not to scratch the cornea