Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, according to a report in the September

A study of Swedish twin brothers found that differences in a gene modulating the hormone vasopressin were strongly tied to how well each man fared in marriage.

Stents are tiny mesh tubes inserted into arteries to keep blood flowing. Drug-eluting stents emit medicines that help prevent reclosure. The latest form of drug-eluting stents releases the drugs from a biodegradable polymer coating.

For the study, which was expected to be published in the Sept. 1 issue of Sleep , scientists tracked the sleeping patterns and other predictors of recovery (e.g., mental status, hours of therapy received, reason for admission) in 245 older

Overall, the Gardasil shot is remarkably safe, declared a team of doctors in an editorial accompanying the study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal . They did acknowledge the need to keep tabs on possible side effects, however.

Telomerase works by adding repeats of a short DNA sequence to the ends of chromosomes -- known as telomeres -- to prevent damage and loss of genetic information during cell division. Telomerase works in embryonic stem cells and other cells

Published in Respirology by Wiley-Blackwell, the invited editorial "Regulation of Consumer Products: The Bizarre Case of Strawberry Jam and Cigarettes" discusses the issues surrounding tobacco regulations and how the industry could be more effectively governed.

For most, a needle is not a welcome sight, but soon your vaccination or shot of medicine could come from needles so small they're barely visible to the human eye. They're called microneedles.

In fact, children playing active video games have higher heart rates and burn four times as many calories a minute than children playing passive video games, according to this new study.

Here are suggestions to help you and baby get through it, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine:

Here are suggestions on how to prevent dry skin, courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic:

The autistic disorder was first described, more than sixty years ago, by Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA), who created the new label 'early infantile autism'. At the same time an Austrian scientist, Dr. Hans Asperger, described

Family-focused therapy, when combined with medication, appears effective in stabilizing symptoms of depression among teens with bipolar disorder, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Between one-half and two-thirds of

More than half of orphaned youth age 12 to 24 who head households in rural Rwanda meet criteria for depression, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.The

Giving school children very high doses of vitamin D is safe, and may be necessary to bring their blood levels of the nutrient up to the amount necessary for optimum bone growth and health, a new study shows.Insufficiency in vitamin

Earwax is not actually wax, but a water-soluble mixture of secretions produced in the outer third of the ear canal, along with hair and dead skin. In the first published guidelines about removing wax from the ear, health care professionals

Magnesium sulfate is traditionally used in obstetrics to stop premature labour and prevent seizures in women with hypertension. In the new study involving 2,240 women, who were likely to give birth more than two months premature, the researchers found that

They believe that the new findings will help in determining which patients will respond to these drugs. In the study led by Dr. Adrian Lee, associate professor in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Centre at BCM, the researchers stimulated

Researchers from the University of Michigan Depression Centre tested the drug's ability to help depression patients achieve total relief from their symptoms. During the study 2,876 men and women who had a clear diagnosis of major depression, were given citalopram

The study, which was conducted on urban children in Puerto Rico, showed that kids who face physical or sexual abuse are more than twice as likely to have asthma as their peers. In fact, physical and sexual abuse was second