But that’s only part of the picture. Experts believe there are millions more who try options such as over-the-counter medicines or chamomile tea, or simply suffer through sleepless nights. “Not…
Extra Strength Tylenol will now have a new warning label on the cap alerting users to potentially fatal risks of taking too much of the pain reliever.Johnson & Johnson/Associated Press…
Women traditionally have been diagnosed with depression about twice as often as men, with about 20 percent of women becoming depressed at some point in their lives. In the last…
Durangoan, whose son has hydrocephalus, pressed for Colo. representatives’ support
Basketball big man gives credit to his less-invasive surgery on troubled spine
The evening routine included body inspections on us kids for the presence of ticks. The family dog was scrutinized as well – ticks swollen to the size of small grapes…
Interfaith Medical Center, which serves an overwhelmingly low-income population in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is the second Brooklyn hospital facing possible closure.Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press Since 2000, 19 hospitals across the city have closed…
Research out Tuesday finds that even children with just moderate levels of lead in their first three years of life are nearly three times as likely to be suspended from…
A national telephone survey in 2012 found 13 states with very high rates of obesity in. But overall, the proportion of Americans deemed obese has been about the same for…
Simon G. Gregory, associate professor of medicine and medical genetics at Duke University, is the lead author of a study suggesting autism might be linked with inducing and speeding up…
I find that back-to-school time is an important time for a review of good hygiene practices to reduce the spread of common infectious illnesses. For starters, when little Johnny packs…
Research points to alcohol, mental illness, being male
Pennsylvania researchers hope to develop new diagnostic tool
Mom loved history, politics and baseball. She rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs for 80 years. She wasn’t particularly interested in science, but she was happy to talk about anything…
Progress, but a long way to go; Colorado kids gained weight
Since last September, the World Health Organization has confirmed 90 cases of MERS, the Middle East respiratory syndrome, including 45 deaths. Most cases have been in Saudi Arabia, but the…
For the first time, government advisers are recommending screening for lung cancer, saying certain current and former smokers should get annual scans.Associated Press file photo If it becomes final as…
Discussions should involve everything from when and how to resume sex, to what position might be best for some conditions or not advised for others, according to a consensus statement…
Imagine that you could create a safe, effective vaccine to protect children from a cancer-causing agent that nearly every person will encounter and which could prevent more than 26,000 cases…
The recommendations, from a working group of the National Cancer Institute, were published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In one example, they say that some…
