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Mar. 05, 2012

Too busy to go to bed? Having trouble getting quality sleep once you do? Your health may be at risk.

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Mar. 05, 2012

The American Geriatrics Society endorses the new recommendation because there are probably many unreported cases among older adults.

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Mar. 03, 2012

The longer you have diabetes, the higher your risk for stroke, according to a study in Stroke, an American Heart Association journal. In the study, diabetes increased stroke risk 3 percent each year and tripled the risk for people who had diabetes for 10 years or more, compared to people without diabetes...

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Mar. 02, 2012

Scientists are testing a tool that lights up the breaks these injuries leave deep in the brain's wiring, much like X-rays show broken bones.

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Mar. 02, 2012

MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer's patients creates a blockade that shuts off genes necessary to form new memories. Furthermore, by inhibiting that enzyme in mice, the researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms...

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Mar. 01, 2012

Times are tough: Among those older than age 75, nearly 40 percent lived below 200 percent of the poverty line in 2009.

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Mar. 01, 2012

Federal health officials have approved the first vaccine that protects against four strains of the common flu, offering one additional layer of protection against the influenza virus that affects millions each year.

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Mar. 01, 2012

New technology is letting scientists map the brain's connections in ever-greater detail, raising hopes for the treatment of disorders such as autism.

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Mar. 01, 2012

We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehabilitation and prosthetics...

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Feb. 29, 2012

Inactivity produced spikes in blood sugar levels in healthy young volunteers, which may help explain why sedentary behavior raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

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Feb. 29, 2012

More than three million patients will be monitored by mobile networks by 2016, according to a Juniper Research report. The growth will be driving by higher demand for healthcare peripherals and greater processing power in smartphones, the investigation concludes. The cost of managing diabetes and other chronic conditions will decrease as a result, authors note.

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Feb. 29, 2012

A new animal study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers new clues about the mechanism through which a diet high in fructose, such as from added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, may contribute to the development of obesity and diabetes...

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Feb. 28, 2012

In a study, people with low levels of omega-3 fatty acids had smaller brains and scored lower on memory tests.

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Feb. 28, 2012

The back is literally your body's support system, made up of more than 30 bones and hundreds of nerves, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. But all those moving parts mean it's vulnerable to problems, too.

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Feb. 28, 2012

An irregular heartbeat - atrial fibrillation - is a strong predictor of cognitive decline and the loss of independence in daily activities in older people at risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...

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Feb. 27, 2012

Frank Korona lives near the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border with his wife Kathy, in a house that he built with his own hands, on the same property where he grew up.

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Feb. 27, 2012

Despite an interest in documenting their wishes, patients are delaying these difficult talks, a new survey says.

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Feb. 26, 2012

Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered specific molecular and signaling events by which vitamin D inhibits inflammation. In their experiments, they showed that low levels of Vitamin D, comparable to levels found in millions of people, failed to inhibit the inflammatory cascade, while levels considered adequate did inhibit inflammatory signaling...

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Feb. 24, 2012

Some antipsychotic drugs may raise risk of death in elderly dementia patients, according to a new large study from Harvard Medical School published in BMJ on Thursday that looked at over 75,000 residents over the age of 65 living in US nursing homes...

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Feb. 22, 2012

 

It appears there is medical truth to the notion that a traumatic emotional experience can lead to a severe cardiac condition, which can initially display all of the signs associated with those seen in a heart attack.

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