Total knee replacement not only improves knee mobility in older adults with severe osteoarthritis of the knee, it actually improves the overall level of physical functioning, new research indicates. ...
Foodborne diseases appear to be on the rise in both rich and poor countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. ...
Women who are heavy in their middle years are at greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease, especially if they have large waists. However, for men, being underweight during that period of life actually increases the likelihood of developing the degenerative br...
Diets high in saturated fat appear to increase the risk of cancer of the small intestine, a study shows. ...
Children born “small for gestational age” — that is, significantly smaller than most babies born after the same number of weeks of pregnancy — appear to be at increased risk for rapid gains in weight and body fat during adulthood, resea...
Pop star Britney Spears’ 2-year-old son was taken to the hospital over the weekend after he had a reaction to something he ate, a statement on the singer’s Web site said on Monday. ...
Milk may be a treatment for milk allergy. In a carefully controlled study, researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Duke University found that giving milk-allergic children milk in increasingly higher doses over time eased their allergic reac...
Physical activity levels are low in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and this appears to be unrelated to disease activity, study findings in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism indicate. ...
But researchers are working on new therapies to combat the problem ...
A survey of nurses in elementary and middle schools found that food allergy action plans for students with food allergies are used inconsistently. ...