An apple a day may keep the doctor away but a fibre-filled diet could also hold the key to keeping asthma, diabetes and ...
NFL commissioner: League to offer medical follow-up to ex-players who reported mental problems When a recent study conducted for the NFL suggested that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Childhood cancer survivors are 18 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than the general population, UK researchers report. "Survival after childhood cancer has greatly improved over the last three decades with 5-year survival 75 percent during ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An alarming number of Canadian teenagers has high blood pressure, high cholesterol or other major risk factors for heart disease and stroke, a researcher warned Tuesday at a conference in Edmonton, Alberta. "This study is further evidence ...
About 47 million adults in the United States-about 25 percent of the population-have metabolic syndrome. Despite this shocking statistic, only a minority would probably be able to identify exactly what this condition entails. Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of ...
Eczema, contrary to what most people think, is neither a disease nor an allergy-instead, it’s an immune vulnerability that arises from how your skin interacts with your environment. Of course, none of that matters when you’re having a debilitating flare-up, making it ...
Anyone who’s ever tried to lose those last five stubborn pounds knows that the hardest part isn’t starting the diet, but sticking with it. However, when this isn’t a matter of vanity but a matter of health, it comes time to learn ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - There may be some truth to the saying that all women will eventually turn into their mothers, with a U.S. study finding daughters age and wrinkle like their mothers. Plastic surgeons used facial imaging and 3D computer modeling ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A few cups of coffee everyday may help slow the progression of liver disease associated with long-term infection with the hepatitis C virus, a new study hints. Researchers found that among 766 patients with hepatitis C-related liver ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many middle-aged adults may be walking around with a dangerous health problem and not even know it. The condition called peripheral artery disease, or PAD, occurs when arteries in the legs become narrowed or clogged with fatty ...
St. Louis Blues center T.J. Oshie will miss the next two weeks of the National Hockey League season following an appendectomy Saturday morning. Just hours after playing in a 3-1 victory over Minnesota on Friday night, the 22-year-old American underwent the operation ...
Georgia Southern DB Hudson Presume suffers spinal injury at Appalachian St. Georgia Southern defensive back Hudson Presume has been taken to a hospital after suffering an apparent spinal injury during the Eagles' game against Appalachian State. The sophomore was tackled awkwardly during ...
