Apple shape poses risks
Study: Even the normal-weight should watch that pot belly
DATE: Nov 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Lauran Neergaard
New push for pint-sized medical devices to treat sick kids
WASHINGTON – Improvise isn’t a word parents want to hear from their kid’s doctor. Yet pediatric specialists too often have to jury-rig care because many of the medical devices needed to trea...
DATE: Nov 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Diagnosis wrong too often, urgent improvement needed
WASHINGTON – Most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis at some point in their lives, a blind spot in modern medicine that can have devastating consequences, says a ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Panel backs aspirin for heart health in only certain adults
WASHINGTON – A government task force says a daily low-dose aspirin could help certain people in their 50s and 60s prevent a first heart attack or stroke – and they might get some protection ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Study backs more aggressive treatment of high blood pressure
WASHINGTON – Aiming lower saves more lives when it comes to controlling high blood pressure, says a major new study that could spur doctors to more aggressively treat patients over 50. ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
New medical coding system aims to help track quality of care
WASHINGTON – If things are a bit tense in your doctor’s office come Oct. 1, some behind-the-scenes red tape could be to blame.
That’s the day when the nation’s physicians and hosp...
DATE: Sep 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Obese at 50? Midlife weight may affect when Alzheimer’s hits
WASHINGTON – One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but when. ...
DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Auditory processing used as predictor of reading skill
WASHINGTON – New research suggests it may be possible to predict which preschoolers will struggle to read – and it has to do with how the brain deciphers speech when it’s noisy.
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DATE: Aug 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education
Sleep may cut Alzheimer’s risk
WASHINGTON – To sleep, perchance to ... ward off Alzheimer’s? New research suggests poor sleep may increase people’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease, by spurring a brain-clogging gunk that in tu...
DATE: Jul 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Exercise good for brain, even for those with Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON – Exercise may do more than keep a healthy brain fit: New research suggests working up a good sweat may also offer some help once memory starts to slide – and even improve life fo...
DATE: Jul 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Study: Women with mild memory problem worsen faster than men
WASHINGTON – Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of an effort to unravel why women are especially hard-hit by Alzh...
DATE: Jul 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Families affected by early onset Alzheimers seek better treatment
WASHINGTON – Alzheimer’s has ravaged generations of Dean DeMoe’s family – his grandmother, father, siblings – all in their 40s and 50s.
DeMoe himself inherited the culprit gene mu...
DATE: Jul 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
