When teenagers don’t get adequate amounts of sleep, their health suffers in much the same way sleep deprivation affects adult health. One health risk sleepy teens face is higher blood pressure (hypertension), a medical condition that can lead to serious…

Calling it a Compressed Working Week, British researchers are suggesting a shorter work week may improve the detrimental health effects of shift work at the same time it improves employee morale and boosts productivity.  Twenty percent of all European workers…

Almost one in five teens recently surveyed said it’s much easier to purchase prescription drugs than it is to purchase beer, cigarettes, and marijuana. Another 25% of the study participants said marijuana is the easiest party drug to buy. It…

A childhood diet rich in dairy products builds strong bones for the growing child but a new study from Boston University School of Medicine indicates that the same diet continues to ensure healthy bones until the child is well into…

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, report that people with low levels of vitamin D in their bloodstreams are at greater risk of dying from any cause than someone getting more of the vitamin.

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The Stanford University School of Medicine has released the results of a long-term study that explores how a lifetime of running affects the aging process. The multitude of benefits derived from running have surprised even the research team.

Not everyone who carries excess weight is at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.  In fact, it’s possible to be clinically obese and have a heart as healthy as a person of normal weight.  And many people of normal weight…

According to a survey of 2,064 adults selected at random, parents are turning more and more often to retail clinics for the medical attention their children need.  And they say the main reason why they do so is because it’s…

Researchers in Finland have just published their findings on a study that compared a diet rich in fish to a diet with little, if any, fish and discovered that the fishy diet eaters reduced their risk of stroke, with their…

Study participants who ate two eggs for breakfast every day for two months lost 65% more weight than participants in the same study who ate a bagel for breakfast, even though the bagel and the eggs contained an equal number…

The diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a life-altering moment that comes with some really big decisions to make.  One of the most important of those decisions is the course of medical treatment to take.

Nobody would argue that the arrival of a new baby is a time when cleanliness is critical but a new study suggests too much of a good thing can leave your child gasping for breath.  Seems asthma has a tendency…

It’s the guys.  The young ones, between 18 and 44 years of age.  In 2002, at least 1.2 million men in this age group adopted children but only 613,000 women the same age did.

Americans at the beginning of the current century are consuming fewer alcoholic beverages than their relatives at the beginning of the previous century, according to new data published in the August issue of the American Journal of Medicine.  And, of…