According to a new report released by "Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers", more than 1 million babies die the first day they are born (each year). A newborn's first day is the most dangerous day of his/her life and a lot of these deaths can be avoided if more health safety measures are implemented, says Save The Children...

A new study conducted by researchers at Cornell University suggests that people who are hungry when they go shopping tend to buy higher-calorie food options than those who aren't. The study involved tracking people's food options in a simulated supermarket depending on how hungry they were feeling...

CT (computed tomography) screening can reduce lung cancer deaths among high-risk individuals, according to results from the National Lung Cancer Study...

A stress hormone undermines the production of new brain cells, contributing to the development of depression - blocking this effect should be the target of new antidepressant medications, researchers from King's College London wrote in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to reclassify sunlamp products so that their labeling includes a recommendation against young people using them. For the moment, the FDA move is just a proposed order that it aims to eventually finalize...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is more common in black women than in white women, according a new study. The research was conducted by Kaiser Permanente and was published in the journal Neurology. The results contradict the widely believed notion that black people are less vulnerable to the disease. The electronic health records of over 3...

Using migraine prevention valproate sodium drugs during pregnancy can cause offspring to have a lower IQ, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned yesterday. Sodium valproate is an anticonvulsant prescribed by doctors for the treatment of migraine, bipolar disorder, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), anxiety disorder, anorexia nervosa and epilepsy...

HIV can cause serious inflammation, regardless of drug therapy, as it develops slowly in immune cells called macrophages...

Around twenty percent of adolescents in the U.S. who are considered "suicidal" have guns in their homes, according to a recent study published at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. In addition, the researchers revealed that 15 percent of those at risk of suicide know how to use the guns and the ammunition and have access to both...

Very high blood levels of vitamin D confer no additional benefit, researchers from Johns Hopkins reported in the American Journal of Medicine. In fact, when they combined the results of their present and previous studies, they found that raising vitamin D levels in "healthy people" with already normal levels may be potentially harmful...

Many young athletes think it is okay to play with a concussion, even though they know it puts them at risk of serious harm, according to a new U.S. study. The research was conducted by a team from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and is set to be presented Monday, May 6, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC...

If you clean your baby's pacifier by sucking it, you may well be reducing your infant's risk of developing allergies, researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, reported in the journal Pediatrics (May 6th, 2013 issue)...

One in four adults in Britain walks for no more than an hour a week, according to an online survey commissioned from YouGov by the walking charity Ramblers. This figure includes everyday walking to the shops, work or school, says the charity, whose mission, among other things, is to encourage participation in walking for recreation and as a means of transport...

Scientists once thought BAF proteins confined their activity to cellular housekeeping. But then they discovered these complexes do more than help package and maintain DNA in cells: it seems they also suppress tumor development in many types of tissue...

Forty-three percent of teenagers say they text while driving, with males and older teens doing it more often than females and younger teenagers, Alexandra Bailin, from Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York explained in a presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. yesterday...

Restoring hair growth on the bald patches of patients' heads by injecting them with platelet-rich plasma is possible, Italian and Israeli scientists reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, May 2013 issue. Coined "the vampire treatment", blood is taken from the patients and processed in a machine that removes platelet-rich plasma (PRP)...

America's largest for-profit hospital chain, Vitas Hospice Services LLC, and other hospice subsidiaries of Chemed Corp are being sued by the US Justice Department for alleged false billings for Medicare hospice services. The suit (Complaint) is also filed against Vitas Healthcare Corporation...

Liptruzet, a cholesterol-lowering drug that combines Merck's Zetia (ezetimibe) with atorvastatin (generic version of Pfizer's Lipitor) has been approved by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration)...

A modified pseudocatalase, a new compound that reverses oxidative stress may provide a cure for loss of skin or hair color, i.e. gray hair or vitiligo, researchers from the United Kingdom and Germany reported in The FASEB Journal. The need to use hair dyes to cover up a classic sign of aging - gray hair - may soon be a thing of the past...

The number of younger women (aged under 50) being diagnosed with breast cancer has topped 10,000 in one year for the first time in the United Kingdom, says Cancer Research UK, a charity. Today in the UK, out of every five women who are diagnosed with breast cancer, one is aged under 50 years. Each year nearly 50,000 breast cancer diagnoses are made...