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(HealthDay News) -- Prolonged exposure to high temperatures and high humidity can make you dangerously sick. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people with these risk factors are more likely to become ill from extreme heat: Bei...

(HealthDay News) -- Prolonged exposure to high tem...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Delirium occurs in nearly half of older patients right after they have major surgery with general anesthesia, a small, new study finds. Researchers looked at 91 patients, average age 79, and found that 45 percent o...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Delirium occur...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- About half of patients take herbal and other supplements before undergoing cosmetic facial plastic surgery, according to a new study. Many of these supplements can put patients at risk during surgery and they shoul...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- About half of ...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Infants who spent at least one night a week away from their mothers had weaker bonds with their mothers than infants who were with their mothers every night, a new study finds. The findings are important in light o...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Infants who sp...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults with dementia who use certain blood pressure medications may have a slower rate of mental decline, new research suggests. The study, reported July 25 in BMJ Open, found that dementia patients on partic...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults w...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Skipping breakfast may not sabotage your waistline after all, a small, new study suggests. For years, people have been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and that missing it would encourage ...

FRIDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Skipping break...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- A highly influential government panel of experts is recommending that older smokers at high risk of lung cancer receive annual low-dose CT scans to help detect and possibly prevent the spread of the fatal disease. ...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- A highly influ...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Conditions that cause problems maintaining normal blood sugar levels -- such as glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes -- don't appear to be linked to specific signs of Alzheimer's disease, new...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Conditions tha...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- College football players, particularly burly linemen, may develop high blood pressure in just one season of play, new research suggests. The study of 113 freshmen on Harvard's football team found that while none ha...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- College footba...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Many doctors ignore guidelines about the treatment of back pain and instead turn to extensive use of scans like MRIs and the most addictive types of painkillers, new research finds. It's not clear exactly how many ...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Many doctors i...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who receive a kidney transplant may be at increased risk of transplant failure, and the risk is especially high among young black patients, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 169,000 pat...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who rece...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Many people who survive a heart attack have unspoken anxieties over whether it is safe to resume sexual activity. Now, experts in cardiology say doctors need to be more proactive in counseling patients who find the...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Many people wh...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Bipolar disorder develops differently in obese people and among those who binge eat, a new study finds. Up to 4 percent of Americans have bipolar disorder, a serious mental illness that causes extreme mood swings. ...

MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Bipolar disord...

SATURDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- People who live near gas refineries and manufacturing plants that release the chemical benzene into the environment are at increased risk for the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a new study. Resea...

SATURDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- People who l...

(HealthDay News) -- Some people with Alzheimer's disease -- characterized by a loss of brain tissue -- have trouble sleeping and/or nighttime wandering. The National Sleep Foundation suggests how to improve sleep in people with Alzheimer's: Make sur...

(HealthDay News) -- Some people with Alzheimer's d...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Certain diabetes blood sugar testing strips are being recalled by their maker, Nova Diabetes Care, because they may give users false, abnormally high readings, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. T...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Certain diabe...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- A panel of experts commissioned by the U.S. National Cancer Institute says that the word "cancer" may need to be redefined to prevent overdiagnosis and overtreatment of conditions that are often not lethal. Writin...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- A panel of ex...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women with certain breast tissue abnormalities that raise their risk for cancer can safely take a wait-and-see approach rather than rush into surgery, a new study suggests. Previous research into two breast condit...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women with ce...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Poor children are more likely than their wealthier counterparts to smoke cigarettes, but less likely to binge drink and no more likely to use marijuana, a new study reveals. The Duke University researchers also fo...

TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Poor children...

TUESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Women who suffer from kidney stones may also be at raised risk for heart disease, a new study suggests. No such increased risk was seen among men with kidney stones, the researchers noted. "A link between kidney s...

TUESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Women who suf...

TUESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- While U.S. doctors say it's important to control soaring health care costs, they don't think they are the ones responsible for doing so, new research finds. The survey, of more than 2,500 physicians, found wide su...

TUESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- While U.S. do...