Parents are important models for their children. Children watch the actions of parents and other adults, and learn from what they see. One lesson children learn is how to maintain their health, including exercise habits.
Overweight parents are at an increased risk of having children with weight problems — and overweight children are more likely to [...]
CHICAGO — Leading doctors urged a return to older, tried-and-true treatments for high cholesterol after hearing full results Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin.Millions of Americans already take the drug or one of its components, Zetia. But doctors were stunned to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease even though it worked as [...]
The connection between belly fat and the brain intensified last week. Many Americans have obsessed about abdominal fat for, oh, decades. A new study from the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Division of Research revealed that people who have large waistlines in their 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia conditions in [...]
CHICAGO — The largest-ever study of the long-term consequences of premature birth finds that children born early have higher death rates in childhood and are more likely to be childless in adulthood.
Experts called the research significant because it followed 1.2 million Norwegian births over decades. It also raises questions about future risks for even tinier [...]
WASHINGTON — You’ve just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor?
Chemotherapy costs are rising so dramatically that later this year, oncologists will get their first guidelines on how to have a straight talk with patients about the affordability of treatment choices, a topic too [...]
Research supports that what you eat and drink during pregnancy can influence not only the health of the pregnancy but also the future health of the baby. For instance, moms who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts and consume a low to moderate amount of dairy products, eggs [...]
NEW YORK — A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be worse than being single, a preliminary study suggests.
That second finding is a surprise because prior studies have shown that married people tend to be healthier than singles, said researcher Julianne Holt-Lunstad.
It would take further study to sort [...]
Leslie Jones can’t breathe. From her bed at the University of Washington, the 80-year-old woman repeats her discomfort several times to a pair of nursing students dressed in purple scrubs.
The students ask her questions and check her vital signs, searching for the source of her problem. Jones’ husband stands at her bedside, urging the students [...]
The researchers disagree about whether this damage shows that Parkinsons disease is a long-term, ongoing process that continues to attack the brain into old age, or the result of the transplants themselves.
But they agree that their studies, published in the journal Nature Medicine, demonstrate the benefits of the sometimes controversial brain cell transplants.
I think these [...]
Chronic bad breath, or halitosis, is often caused by the breakdown of bacteria in the mouth, producing foul-smelling sulfur compounds. Its estimated that 25 per cent of adults suffer the embarrassment of chronic bad breath and the percentage may be as high as 50 per cent in older adults.
In a 28-day study of 14 adults [...]
