Silence may be golden but that probably isn’t the case when hearing is impaired or lost.  The House Ear Institute (HEI) offers five ways to protect against hearing loss due to loud environmental noises.  The …

One of the nation’s most alarming health crises is the growing number of babies born before week 37 of pregnancy.  The increase in these preterm live births is behind federal law PL 109-450, or the …

As the number of Americans age 20 and older who are eligible to donate blood to the nation’s regional blood centers is dwindling, the American Red Cross is relying more heavily than ever on teenage …

That’s the question asked by Russia’s official radiation watchdog organization as it studied the link between a mother’s mobile phone usage during pregnancy and the dispositions of their children after birth. The study involved …

Domestic violence is a tragedy that affects men as well as women.  While the general perception is that women are the victims of abusive domestic partners, men are frequently victimized by their partners, too.  They’re …

A community-based study has revealed that children of kindergarten age, between the ages of 4 and 6, face the educational process with some limitations if they’ve also faced life without one or both parents at …

Batten disease is a tragically devastating disease so rare that only about 200 children around the world have it at any one time. One reason for its rareness is that it most often kills …

After a seven-year dip in numbers, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have witnessed a steady increase in the number of mastectomies performed there in the past three years.  Evidence reveals a correlation …

Mammography is considered the gold standard in early breast cancer detection but some members of the medical community had hopes that adding ultrasound screening would improve the detection rate even further.  A recent study funded …

Long-term exposure to very small particles of liquid and solid chemicals in the air have been shown to be associated with an increased likelihood of developing deep vein thrombosis, a condition that can become deadly …