NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Engaging in oral sex may be a gateway to intercourse for some teens, indirectly raising their risks of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, according to a new study.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two large initiatives designed to prevent African-American girls from becoming obese are not very successful at it, according to two new studies.
Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old who starred on Broadway in “The Lion King” and whose battle with leukemia won the hearts of many, including Alicia Keys, Rihanna and 50 Cent, has died.Tavarez died Monday afternoon at Cohen Children’s Medical Center …
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Most depressed adolescents and teenagers who get treatment with drugs, therapy or both will get some relief, but nearly half will relapse within five years, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
If anything positive can be taken from Lily Allen’s terrible news, it is that miscarriage may become less of a taboo subjectTo lose a baby at four months pregnant, as Lily Allen did in 2008, is devastating – but to lose another at six months, when you have a sizeable bump and a wardrobe full [...]
NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — With bedbug infestations on the rise, Apps Genius (www.appsgenius.com), the developer and publisher of social game…
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Almost Family, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFAM) today announced that it has acquired the assets of the Medicare-certified home health agency owned by Fayette County Memorial Hospital located in Wa…
LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Illicit drugs may be a scourge of modern life but the use of mind-altering substances is threaded through human history and cultures, from betel nut in Asia to coca leaf in…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – DNA tests show the cholera strain that has killed more than 300 people is most closely related to a strain from South Asia, U.S. health experts said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Scientific journals usually aren’t the province of puppy pictures, but the October 2010 issue of Archives of Dermatology contains an image of pitiable Ruby, a young Yorkshire Terrier with a tragic medical history: Ruby died …
For anyone watching their cholesterol, Canadian researchers say eating a single egg could be more harmful than munching the current king of fast food indulgences.
Commonly used diabetes drugs such as metformin may help control lung cancer, and may help prevent it, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Chronic nursing shortage in neonatal units across England leaves vulnerable newborns denied the care they need, report findsBabies’ lives are being put at risk as a result of a chronic lack of nurses in overcrowded neonatal units, a report claims today. The annual review by baby care charity Bliss claims that services are being stretched [...]
NEW YORK a ‘ Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday that revenue in the third quarter jumped 39 percent due to its acquisition of fellow drugmaker Wyeth, but hefty charges related to that $68 billion purchase dragged its profit down 70 percen…
Tina Foley and her husband were gearing up for the arrival of their first child, excited about the furniture, toys and baby clothes they had bought in the months before the birth.