Health & Medicine

Apr 11, 2013 02:04 PM EDT

Study Fails To Inform Parents Of Premature Babies Of Risks

A study designed to discover the effects of levels of oxygen saturation in premature babies is under fire for not fully informing participating parents of the possible consequences, which include both blindness, neurological damage and death.

Apr 11, 2013 12:57 PM EDT

President Obama Calls For $235 Million For Mental Health Care

President Obama has set forth a $235 million dollar plan directed at providing greater awareness of and resources for those struggling with mental health issues.

Apr 11, 2013 11:51 AM EDT

Sperm Allergies May Be Underdiagnosed In Women

When one newly-wed couple discovered the husband's sperm was causing the wife an allergic reaction, they sought help.

Apr 10, 2013 08:10 PM EDT

Nobel Prize Winner's Letter Beats Abraham Lincoln's and Fetches over $6M at NY Auction

A New York auction house saw today (Wednesday) a 60-year-old letter beat Abraham Lincoln letter and fetching $5.3 million to its owner.

Apr 10, 2013 03:28 PM EDT

Laziness May Be A Result Of Genetic Predisposition: A Study

By selectively breeding rats that exhibited traits of either extreme activity or laziness, researcher Frank Booth and post-doctoral fellow Michael Roberts, found that genetics could play a role in exercise motivation.

President Obama Speaks Alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack

Apr 10, 2013 02:48 PM EDT

Food Stamps' Biggest Defender May Be This Man

Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Agriculture Secretary, said Tuesday in a speech that he will continue to protect the country's food programs from what he is calling "a very consistent, thoughtful campaign to delegitimize" them.

UnitedHealth Group's CEO Discusses The Industry of Medical Insurance

Apr 10, 2013 02:00 PM EDT

UnitedHealth Group Pays More Than $500 Million For Allegedly Turning Blind Eye

After hours of deliberation on Tuesday, a Nevada jury decided that two UnitedHealth Group units must pay $500 million in punitive damages for failing to oversee a doctor whose unsanitary medical practices are believed to have given patients hepatitis C.

Apr 10, 2013 01:44 PM EDT

Students' Alcohol Use And Anxiety Levels Can Predict Facebook Dependence, Study Shows

College freshmen who reported higher levels of alcohol use and anxiety were found to be more emotionally connected to the content on Facebook than their peers, according to a new study published in the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior.

Apr 10, 2013 12:46 PM EDT

Supreme Court To Weigh In On First Amendment Case Made By HIV and AIDS Prevention Workers

HIV and AIDS prevention groups are once again at arms with one another as the Supreme Court prepares to consider whether the requirement that those organizations receiving government funding for such work take an open stance against prostitution is in fact constitutional.

Apr 10, 2013 10:31 AM EDT

Toxic Products Have To Go, Says This Petition

Health and environmental groups plan to petition 10 major U.S. retailers Wednesday to phase out potentially toxic products. Specifically, the appeal includes a list of 100 chemicals the groups believe should be avoided based on an array of scientific studies.

Apr 10, 2013 05:44 AM EDT

Cervical Cancer can be Inhibited by Certain Human Papillomavirus

According to a new study, cervical cancer can be prevented by few types of papilloma viruses.

Apr 09, 2013 10:11 PM EDT

Study Says Gene in African-Americans Double Alzheimer's Risk

A new gene mutation has been identified that could make African-Americans with it twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease in old age as those without it

Staff from the Nicolae Paulescu National Institute for Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases in Bucharest walk along a corridor in Bucharest, November 13, 2012

Apr 09, 2013 02:08 PM EDT

So-called 'Diseases Of Affluence' Spreading To Poorer Countries

After analyzing more than two decades worth of data, researchers have found that high blood pressure and obesity, so-called "diseases of affluence," are no longer confined to countries with higher incomes.

Volunteer lifesavers pose as a human billboard, forming the phrase

Apr 09, 2013 12:58 PM EDT

A Quarter Of Melanoma Survivors Don't Wear Sunscreen, Study Finds

Recently at an American Association for Cancer Research conference, Anees B. Chagpar, associate professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, said that it "blew my mind" when her research showed more than a quarter of melanoma survivors do not use sunscreen when outdoors for more than an hour and that a small portion of the skin cancer survivors still visited the tanning bed.

Apr 09, 2013 09:14 AM EDT

Children with Autism Less Likely to Copy Unnecessary Behavior

A new study from The University of Nottingham has found that children with autism are more likely to imitate only useful actions that can get a job done efficiently, rather than "silly" actions.