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Your brain can form new memories while you are asleep, neuroscientists show

A sleeping brain can form fresh memories, according to a team of neuroscientists. The researchers played complex sounds to people while they were sleeping, and afterward the sleepers could r...

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Hints that lifestyle changes might guard against dementia

WASHINGTON – Seek a good education. Control blood pressure and diabetes. Get off the couch. There are some hints, but no proof yet, that these and other lifestyle changes just might help sta...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. hospitals set record for fast heart attack care

There’s never been a better time to be treated for a heart attack. U.S. hospitals have set a record for how quickly they open blocked arteries, averaging under one hour for the first time si...

DATE: Aug 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Blowing smoke? E-cigarettes might help smokers quit

People who used e-cigarettes were more likely to kick the habit than those who didn’t, a new study found. Nicotine patches, gums and medications are known to aid smoking cessation...

DATE: Jul 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Girl’s HIV infection seems under control without AIDS drugs

A South African girl born with the AIDS virus has kept her infection suppressed for more than eight years after stopping anti-HIV medicines – more evidence that early treatment can occasiona...

DATE: Jul 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Hearing is believing: Speech may be a clue to mental decline

Your speech may, um, help reveal if you’re uh ... developing thinking problems. More pauses, filler words and other verbal changes might be an early sign of mental decline, which can lead to...

DATE: Jul 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Tumor gene testing urged to tell if drug targets your cancer

WASHINGTON – Colon cancer. Uterine cancer. Pancreatic cancer. Whatever the tumor, the more gene mutations lurking inside, the better chance your immune system has to fight back. T...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Novel leukemia treatment could be 1st U.S. gene therapy

A treatment for a common childhood blood cancer could become the first gene therapy available in the U.S. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 10-0 on Wednesday in ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Colorado health insurance rates may go up 27 percent next year

Uncertainty about Affordable Care Act driving changes

DATE: Jul 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

How severe, ongoing stress can affect a child’s brain

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A quiet, unsmiling little girl with big brown eyes crawls inside a carpeted cubicle, hugs a stuffed teddy bear tight, and turns her head away from the noisy classroom. ...

DATE: Jul 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Science Says: Not all cancers need treatment right away

The biopsy shows cancer, so you have to act fast, right? Not necessarily, if it’s a prostate tumor. Men increasingly have choices if their cancer is found at an early stage, as mo...

DATE: Jul 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Opioid prescribing is falling in the U.S., but not everywhere

NEW YORK – Overall opioid prescription rates have been falling in recent years, but the powerful drugs have become more plentiful in more than than 1 in 5 U.S. counties, a report released Th...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health