Foods may look, smell and even taste fine—and still harbor bacteria that can cause food poisoning. The July issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource provides an overview of food storage safety and how to avoid bad bacteria, such as E.

Experiencing chronic stress day after day can produce wear and tear on the body physically and mentally, and can have a detrimental effect on learning and emotion. However, acute stress—a short stressful incident—may enhance learning and memory.Researchers at the University

Current research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent one of the leading causes of legal blindness among the elderly. The related report by Tuo et al, "A high omega-3 fatty acid diet reduces retinal

A therapy that helps regenerate receding gum tissue seems to hold up over the long term—and may offer patients an alternative to more-extensive dental surgery, a small study finds.One option for treating severe gum disease is surgery to replace tissue

In children with sleep-related breathing disorders, removing the tonsils and adenoids—an operation called adenotonsillectomy—is apt to yield long-lasting improvements in sleep and behavior, doctors from Kansas City report.More than two years after a group of children with sleep-related breathing disorders

People with arthritis seem to have an elevated rate of depression, but the disorder goes untreated more often than not, a new study suggests.Researchers found that among more than 130,000 Canadians in a national health survey, those with arthritic conditions

Denny's Meals, With Several Days' Worth of Salt, Promote Heart Disease, Stroke, Risk of Early DeathWASHINGTON—Most Denny's meals are dangerously high in sodium, putting the restaurant chain's customers at greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, according

Patients should be offered treatment with peginterferon and ribavirin before liver transplantation or as soon as HCV-recurrence is apparent, find doctors in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Researchers from the Netherlands find that passive smoking is detrimental for Crohn's disease patients, while in ulcerative colitis patients, active smoking shows dose-dependent beneficial effects.

While all 3 available techniques for esophageal endoscopy generate high levels of patient satisfaction, capsule endoscopy is favored, find researchers in Diseases of the Esophagus.

Fecal calprotectin and lactoferrin determination may be useful in predicting clinical relapse in IBD patients, reports a study in the latest issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Researchers find that, although donor-derived disease transmission results in significant morbidity and mortality, transmission occurred in only 0.96% of deceased donor donations, overall.

A high intake of linoleic acid, a common dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid, might be implicated in a 3rd of ulcerative colitis cases, suggests research published ahead of print in Gut.

HIV infection rates among babies are significantly cut when mothers are given prolonged ARV treatment during breastfeeding," according to findings released at the International AIDS Society conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

A research led by G Nicholas Verne from United States addressed this issue. The article was published on July 14, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology . A total of 42 cases with D-IBS and 24 with C-IBS, and

Metabolism is a whole caboodle of chemical processes. The body uses to turn food into energy, grow, repair damage from diseases and injuries, use medicines, and carry out other functions necessary to continue living. In the new study, Ivano Bertini

Kishore Paknikar and colleagues note that antimicrobial silver compounds have been used for decades on burn patients, whose damaged skin is highly vulnerable to bacterial infections. However, topical silver agents now in use can loose effectiveness in the body, cause

Open-heart surgery can require a two- to three-month recovery period, compared to only a few days for the transcatheter approach.

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center also report that blocking a gene that helps NK cells attack bile duct tissues lessens damage and may be a way to treat the most common cause of chronically progressive liver disease in

The study, conducted by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in collaboration with the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata, India, was published in the July 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The