Study: Diabetes drug lowers amputation risk

Doctors who gave diabetics a drug originally intended to lower patients’ cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 percent, a new analysis of research says. Researchers... Read more

Urine Test Could Gauge Smokers’ Lung Cancer Risk

Someday, a simple urine test might spot smokers at highest risk for lung cancer, scientists report. The research is still in its preliminary stages, and it may be years before such a test becomes publicly... Read more

Suriname starts free circumcision project

Suriname has launched a three-month pilot project offering free circumcisions in a bid to cut sexually transmitted diseases, Health Minister Celsius Waterberg said Friday. Circumcision “could also... Read more

Calories Count, Diets Fail

Health met physics in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine with a study revealing that the type of diet doesn’t matter so much for weight loss - be it low-fat, low-carb, 70-percent yak... Read more

Octuplets’ grandmother conciliatory in interview

The mother of the Southern California woman who used a fertility doctor to give birth to octuplets sounded a conciliatory note toward her daughter in a TV interview posted online Monday. Angela Suleman... Read more

Avoiding the painkiller-overuse rut in migraines

Those pain pills you think help your migraines? Take too many and you could make them worse. Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more... Read more

Nursing home industry worries about new ratings

Rating systems help people decide which restaurants to go to or hotels to stay at. So why not something similar from the federal government for the nation’s 16,000 nursing homes? Such a simple rating... Read more

Autism, other disorders linked to post-natal factors: study

Autism and obsessive-compulsive disorders may be linked to factors other than genetics, despite widely held beliefs otherwise, according to a study published Wednesday in the American journal Neuron. When... Read more

Obese Kids More Prone to Limb Injuries in Car Crashes

During a car crash, American children who are overweight or obese face twice the risk of injury to their arms, legs and feet that normal-weight children do, a new study reveals. The findings come from... Read more

Obese have right to 2 airline seats: Canada court

Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of... Read more

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