ATLANTA, March 6 (UPI) -- The life-threatening bacteria C.difficile affects patients not just in hospitals, but also in nursing homes and out-patient care, U.S. health officials said.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, March 6 (UPI) -- Babies of women treated for depression while pregnant were associated with reduced brain growth and a higher risk for preterm birth, Dutch researchers said.
ATLANTA, March 6 (UPI) -- The effects of chronic stress on cardiovascular health may be a side effect of having an immune system that can fight infection, U.S. researchers said.
MAYWOOD, Ill., March 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. bioethicist is calling political satirist Jon Stewart a public intellectual, who is seriously committed to ideas and discourse.
BOSTON, March 6 (UPI) -- A man likes to know when his wife or girlfriend is happy, but a woman wants the man in her life to know when she is upset, U.S. researchers found.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (UPI) -- A study purporting to show a causal link between abortion and later mental health problems has fundamental analytical errors, U.S. researchers said.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 5 (UPI) -- The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was awarded a $2.5 million grant to study the use of a snake-venom peptide as a heart attack treatment.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. study found stress led to significantly larger increases in a marker of inflammation in poor sleepers compared to good sleepers, researchers said.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- Chemical analyses found Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi contain high levels of a known animal carcinogen, a U.S. food advocacy group said.
PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (UPI) -- U.S. physicians should screen for colorectal cancer in average risk adults at age 50 and older and high risk adults at the age of 40, new guidance advise.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- Healthcare reform eliminated lifetime limits on insurance coverage for more than 105 million Americans, the U.S. secretary of health and human services says.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. registered dietitian suggests some foods might sound healthy but some so-called health foods are best avoided.
SAN DIEGO, March 4 (UPI) -- For sex, Valentine's Day cannot compete, at least statistically, with Christmas -- the time of year couples have the most sex, U.S. fertility experts said.
BORDEAUX, France, March 4 (UPI) -- A team of researchers in France found working memory deteriorates in people who use marijuana.
TORONTO, March 4 (UPI) -- Researchers in Canada found that the seasonal flu vaccine has not had a major impact in reducing hospitalization or death among the elderly.
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