Medicine

Cholesterol meds raise diabetes risk in women: study

WASHINGTON- Post-menopausal women who take medication to lower their cholesterol face a higher risk of getting diabetes than women who do not take the popular drugs, known as statins, said a US study...

Stillbirth often linked to placenta: US research

While rare in the United States, stillbirth happens in one of 160 pregnancies, at a higher rate than other developed countries. A pair of studies published in the Journal of the American Medical...

Learn from Shakespeare, study tells doctors

PARIS- Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms. Kenneth Heaton, a doctor at the...

Pioneering liver treatment cures British baby

LONDON- British doctors on Tuesday said they had cured a baby boy of a life-threatening liver disease using a pioneering treatment in which cells are injected into the abdomen. The team from...

'Promising' step for world's first malaria vaccine

Experts hailed the phase III trial under way at 11 sites in sub-Saharan Africa as a promising step toward eradicating the ancient mosquito-borne disease that kills almost 800,000 people yearly, most...

Man with world's largest feet finds fame

Judges from Guinness World Records came to France to measure him and confirmed his suspicion that he had record-breaking feet -- his left measuring one foot three inches (38.1 cm) in length and his...

Nobel comes days too late for Canadian scientist

His hopes were raised a few years ago when he heard he was on the short list for the Nobel Prize. He did not win that year, she recalled, but the family has considered the possibility every year...

Pregnant at 61: late-in-life choice stirs debate in Brazil

"I had already gone through menopause... My husband wanted to be a father. I wanted to be a mother too. I am in great health... and I have undergone a very thorough medical clearance," she told O...

A breath detector to find disaster victims

The sensors sniff out metabolites, the gassy by-products of breakdown mechanisms, which come from breathing, sweating and urinating. Dogs can be trained to detect these compounds, but are...

Parents who lose a baby can die of a broken heart

Bereaved parents were between two and four times likelier to die or become widowed in the first 10 years of the child's death compared with non-bereaved counterparts. Mothers in particular were at...
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