In a large UK trial, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients who received cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or graded exercise therapy (GET), combined with specialist medical care, were three times more likely to recover than those who received other treatments...

Children born to mothers who took the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate during pregnancy are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neruodevelopmental disorders. The finding came from new research published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry The research involved kids born to 528 pregnant women in England between 2000 and 2004...

Ever heard the rumor that having sex burns calories? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, snacking is bad, or gym class helps kids control weight? These are just a few of several widespread myths about obesity. Seven popular obesity myths have been addressed in a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine...

Men and women who are married are at a lower risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attack compared to those who are unmarried or live alone, according to a recent study conducted by a group of Finish researchers...

BMI (Body Mass Index) has been used for over 100 years in population studies, by doctors, personal trainers, and other health care professionals, when deciding whether their patients are overweight. However, BMI has one important flaw - it does not measure your overall fat or lean tissue (muscle) content...

Binge drinking directly causes insulin resistance, which in turn leads to type 2 diabetes. This was the finding of a new study on rats, that the researchers say is the first to show binge drinking alone, separate from other factors like overeating, increases risk for type 2 diabetes...

A team of researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have identified a new drug target for Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. They discovered the importance of a protein called Klotho which helps maintain healthy myelin - an insulating material allowing communication between nerve cells. As people begin to age the levels of Klotho in the brain also begin to decrease...

Certain second trimester markers for Down's syndrome that are identified in an ultrasound are more significant than others. The finding came from new research published in the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology. The results of this investigation will help modify pregnant women's risks for having a baby with the chromosomal disorder...

The evidence is piling up, suggesting alcohol has a lasting and negative impact on the brain, according to new research published in the journal Cortex. Excessive alcohol use makes up four percent of the international burden of disease and specifically, binge drinking is becoming a more prominent health issue...

Although a rare condition, multiple sclerosis (MS) appears to be more common among overweight and obese girls, to the point where extremely obese girls have nearly four times the risk of developing the neurological disease, or its precursor clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)...

A vegetarian diet can reduce a person's risk of heart disease by a third. Vegetarians have a 32% lower risk of hospitalization or death from cardiovascular disease than people who consume meat and fish. The finding came from new research from the University of Oxford and was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...

Leafy green vegetables such as lettuce and spinach have been found to be one of the top sources of food poisoning, according to a new report released by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Each year, nearly 48 million Americans, roughly 1 in 6, catch a food-borne illness. These numbers include 128,000 hospitalizations and 2,000 deaths...

Some key policy changes that need to be made in the United States in order to prevent illness and improve the health of millions of Americans have just been outlined in the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) latest Healthier America report. The report includes a range of suggestions that focus on the prevention of chronic diseases, which currently affect more than half of the U.S. population...

A new report shows that men are more than one third (35%) more likely to die of cancer in the UK than women, and they are two-thirds (67%) more likely to die from the disease when sex-specific cancers such as prostate, testicular and ovarian cancers are excluded...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is linked to heart disease and early death in men both with and without a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The finding came from a new study conducted by researchers from the Australian National University, led by Emily Banks, and was published in PLOS Medicine...

A special blood marker has been found enabling further understanding of potential gut linked environmental factors to autism. The results could create blood tests for early screening of the condition. The findings came from a clinical study by researchers from Western University and the University of Arkansas, and were published in the journal Translational Psychiatry. Led by Drs...

Some antidepressants have been linked to a long QT, which may increase the likelihood of having a serious heart rhythm abnormality. However, as they are extremely rare, the benefits offered by antidepressant far outweigh the risks and patients should not be alarmed, says the British Heart Foundation...

SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), types of antidepressants, are associated with a long QT interval, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). The QT interval is the duration of electrical activity of the heart muscle. A long QT interval is a marker for heart rhythm abnormalities...

From doughnuts to French fries, eating deep fried food at least once a week is linked to a raised risk for prostate cancer, according to a new US study. The researchers did not investigate why the link exists, but suggest it could be because deep frying releases potentially cancer-causing compounds in the cooking oil or fat...

Kynamro (mipomersen sodium) injection has been approved by the FDA to treat people who are genetically predisposed to have high levels of LDL cholesterol - what lay people refer to as "bad cholesterol". Kynamro was approved to be taken together with lipid-lowering drugs and diet for patients with HoFH (homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia)...