Food Allergies Less Deadly Than Accidents
A fatal allergic reaction is a dramatic event, often involving a young person, so it naturally attracts attention. But that attention itself may lead people to overestimate the risk. In fact, a new...
A fatal allergic reaction is a dramatic event, often involving a young person, so it naturally attracts attention. But that attention itself may lead people to overestimate the risk. In fact, a new...
A Stallergenes machine acts as a pollen vacuum cleaner. The pollen is used in the drug company’s immunotheraphy treatments. “One drop under the tongue every morning, and that’s it,”...
Although there was never an expectation that risky bone-marrow transplants would soon be a routine treatment for H.I.V., the news was frustrating to AIDS experts. Many had hoped that the “graft versus...
“Today’s approval represents a significant shift in the treatment paradigm for some patients with chronic hepatitis C,” said Dr. Edward Cox, director of the office of antimicrobial...
Based on nearly 3,900 men and women over age 60 in Stockholm, the study adds to evidence suggesting that just sitting around may be actively harmful, researchers say. "We have known for 60...
Based on health data for 500 unrelated black men over age 20 enrolled in the Howard University Family Study, researchers found those who had lived with one parent rather than two as children had higher...
Researchers who reviewed past studies found that even heavy people who didn't have high blood pressure or diabetes, for instance, had more heart attacks and strokes over time than healthy normal-weight...
About 75 percent of corneal transplants from donors between ages 34 and 71 were successful after 10 years. The findings may lead to more donor tissue becoming available both for transplants in the...
Canadian researchers followed more than 1,000 patients for five years and found those who experienced multiple episodes of low-level depression were nearly three times more likely than those without...
Researchers found people who were in their 80s when they took thinking and memory tests in the late 2000s performed similarly to others who were tested more than 10 years earlier while in their 70s. General...
The good news is, most consumers who do read calorie counts take them into consideration when deciding what to order. "Restaurant food tends to have many more calories than people realize, and...
About half of the 153 volunteers in the study visited a doctor or hospital during their stay. In comparison, only about eight to 10 percent of tourists in South America, Africa and Asia seek local...