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New technology at Mercy detects breast cancer more efficiently

Mercy scanner can uncover disease earlier

DATE: Aug 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Fitbit makes exercise even more of a game

NEW YORK – Fitbit wants to help you exercise more by making you think you’re hiking famous trails instead of strolling around your neighborhood. The new motivational feature, call...

DATE: Aug 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Most teens vaping fruity flavors, not nicotine

NEW YORK – Health officials warn that electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices are poisoning kids with nicotine. But new research suggests that most teens aren’t vaping nicotine at all...

DATE: Aug 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Fists not football: Brain injuries seen in domestic assaults

Injuries leave some survivors so impaired that they can’t manage their jobs and lives

DATE: Aug 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Why your smart friends can seem like such slackers

People who like to use their brains are a lot less physically active than people who don’t, according to research published in the Journal of Health Psychology. Now, you may think...

DATE: Aug 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Volunteers sought as race to develop a Zika vaccine heats up

WASHINGTON – Wanted: Volunteers willing to be infected with the Zika virus for science. It may sound bizarre, but researchers are planning just such a study – this winter, when mo...

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

How two of the world’s top athletes battled burnout

DATE: Aug 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Catalog of DNA variations helps find roots of disease

NEW YORK – A huge catalog of human DNA is helping researchers find tiny glitches that cause disease, in part by pointing out some false leads. The database, with genetic codes fro...

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Best reason to read? Book lovers live longer, scientists say

Good news book readers: A chapter a day might keep the Grim Reaper away – at least a little longer. A recent study by Yale University researchers, published online in the journal ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Studies shine light on mysterious placenta, how it goes awry

It nourishes fetus, acting as its lungs, kidneys and liver

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

UN bungles response to Africa’s yellow fever outbreak

KINSHASA, Congo – The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, yet when they asked co...

DATE: Aug 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health

Can house dust explain why Amish protected from asthma?

CHICAGO – Forget Fluffy and Fido. Bessie the cow just might make a healthier pet. That idea stems from new research in two farming-based religious communities that shun modern way...

DATE: Aug 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health