One Florida cardiologist claims to do what no one else can.

Young adults with a history of low birth weight (less than 5.5 pounds at birth) have an increased risk of hospitalization for respiratory illness, they found.

The big question in aging research is, 'Will caloric restriction in species closely related to humans slow aging?'" said Richard Weindruch, senior author of a paper appearing in the July 10 issue of Science . "This is the first clear

While the remarkable performance of children acquiring one language is impressive, many children acquire more than one language simultaneously," said study author Agnes Melinda Kovacs, a research fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies, in Trieste, Italy. "As bilingual

Each year in the United States, as many as 7 million hospitalized adults experience delirium, a state of confusion caused by a sudden alteration of mental status. Though delirium is not the same as dementia , people with dementia are

The University of Utah research team, whose work is explored in the July 1 online edition of Neurosurgical Focus , hope their microelectrocorticography, or microECoG, devices also eventually allow people who have lost the power of speech to speak again

On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and others led an H1N1 swine flu "preparedness summit" at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The summit

U.S. researchers analyzed data on 410 women, aged 20 to 54, who had ovarian cancer and were enrolled in the Cancer and Steroid Hormone (CASH) study between 1980 and 1982.

Women with the condition have elevated levels of androgen hormones -- including testosterone -- and often develop ovarian cysts, irregular menstrual cycles and infertility. A key feature of the disease is an increase in the high muscle sympathetic nerve activity.

Although the overall death rate in stroke patients aged 15 to 49 is low, four factors double the risk of death: heavy drinking; being 45 to 49; type 1 diabetes ; or a having an infection beforehand. Moreover, having heart

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City analyzed national data on 4,150 Americans aged 50 and older, including 492 with COPD. Of those, 153 had severe COPD. On a 35-point cognition scale, scores among all COPD

The incidence is not high -- between two and four per 100,000 young people annually, said Dr. Warren Lo, lead author of the report in the July 9 issue of Stroke , but there is growing concern about the cost

Their study examined the connection between TB and two anti- tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other auto-immune diseases -- soluble TNF receptor therapy (etanercept) and anti-TNF monoclonal antibody therapy (infliximab or adalimumab).

Improper eating habits are considered among the top conditions that induce different illnesses. This is also true in the case...

Unlike hearing aids, cochlear implants are surgically mounted electronic devices, which are generally used to provide a sense of sound to people who are either deaf, or very hard of hearing, due to inherited or obtained medical conditions. The instruments

Having a hard time hearing? The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new website geared to help current and potential users of hearing aids.

Days after her birth my second daughter had probes put on her head while she was sleeping and had clicks and buzzes fed into her ears as part of a new government screening programme for hearing loss in newborns. The

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