Certain types of fractures may indicate lower bone strength in children, a new study suggests. For the study, published online Jan. 7 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, researchers compared bone strength in 115 boys and girls, ...
Swarms of morning commuters clutch cups of coffee to kick-start the workday. But a new study suggests caffeine might do more for the brain than boost alertness -- it may help memory too. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University looked at ...
Two drugs in combination might be better than one when it comes to helping hardcore smokers quit, at least in the short term, a new study suggests. The drugs -- varenicline (sold under the brand name Chantix) and bupropion (Wellbutrin) ...
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Among cigarette smokers, combining the smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion, compared with varenicline alone, resulted in higher smoking abstinence rates for one outcome but not the other at three and six months; rates ...
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Broken bones may seem like a normal part of an active childhood. About 1 in 3 otherwise healthy children suffers a bone fracture. Breakage of the bone running from the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist (distal forearm fracture) is the ...
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Medtronic has announced that it has acquired combination product specialist Tyrx (Monmouth Junction, NJ) for $160 million. Tyrx, a spin-off from Rutgers University, was launched in 1998 to develop products to combat surgical-site infections ...
Former and current smokers who undergo surgery face higher health care costs in the year after their procedure than people who never smoked, according to a new study. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic noted that smoking cigarettes ...
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Slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. anesthesiology residents who began their training between 1975 and 2009 had a substance abuse disorder during their residency, a new study reveals. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 45,000 ...
A history of concussion involving at least a momentary loss of consciousness may be linked to Alzheimer's-associated plaques in the brain, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the journal Neurology, found people with memory and ...
A recent study led by researchers from the Amyloidosis Center at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) demonstrates that diflunisal, a generic anti-inflammatory drug, successfully reduced neurological ...
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American mothers watch more TV and get less physical activity today than mothers did four decades ago, a new study finds. "With each passing generation, mothers have become increasingly physically inactive, sedentary and obese, thereby ...
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Pregnant women who choose to have an early delivery put themselves and their babies at increased risk for complications, researchers warn. A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, while an early-term pregnancy is 37 weeks to 38 weeks and six ...
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Traveling long distances by plane, car or train over the holidays can pose health risks if you don't take steps to protect yourself, an expert warns. "One health risk to consider when traveling is simply sitting for too long," Dr. Clayton ...
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For men having prostate cancer surgery, the type of anesthesia doctors use might make a difference in the odds of the cancer returning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 3,300 men who underwent prostate cancer ...
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Just a little exercise each week -- jogging for an hour or walking for about three hours -- can reduce the risk of developing kidney stones by up to 31 percent, according to a new study. Researchers looking at data on more than 84,000 ...
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