High blood lipid levels -- mostly made up of fatty acids and cholesterol -- are a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Joan Sabate of Loma ...

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On Day One of the swine flu vaccination drive for healthcare professionals, the BMC found the vaccine had no takers. Over 2000 city-based professionals, ...

The 20th annual Alzheimer's Family walk takes place Saturday morning at Newton Park in Lakeville. An estimated 10 million baby boomers will develop ...

By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI, May 18 (Reuters) - Florida's $60 billion-a-year tourism industry is already losing millions of dollars as a result of the Gulf of ...

By LARA SALAHI and Dr. KELLY KYANKO Eating processed meats like hot dogs, bacon and deli meat could increase your risk for heart disease and diabetes ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug approved to treat a range of conditions may also work to prevent lung cancer in people who have given up smoking, ...

TUESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Intense exercise can provoke the onset of temporary lung problems and other symptoms typically associated with asthma in ...

Human H5N1 'bird flu' cases are usually very severe, but not very transmissible, so they are easy to find and contain, and our strategies of drug treatment, ...

Friend to MissJia.com, Freddy O, spotted reality TV chick, NeNe Leakes, supporting Sheree Whitfield during a local Dancing with the Starts for Alzheimers ...

1 spot as the "most challenging" place to live in America for people with spring allergies, says a new ranking by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of ...

In an analysis of earlier studies on the connections between meat consumption and coronary heart disease and diabetes, researchers at Harvard University ...

In fact, these symptoms were often accompanied by a decrease in lung function—a hallmark of asthma—even when children had no prior history of asthma or ...

by on May 18, 2010 Xcellerex officials announced this week that they have successfully produced swine flu H1 Hemagglutinin, California strain. ...

By MarketWatch Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) posted a 10% jump in quarterly profit, buoyed by expense controls and its international business, offsetting weakness in ...

They may taste good, but bacon, sausage, hot dogs and deli meats can increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes, a study found. ...

Food allergies are a hot topic in the news right now. According to a recent CDC report, the number of people with a diagnosed food allergy had risen by 18 ...

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AP - May 18, 2010 1:34 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Alaska's last confirmed case of swine flu was six weeks ago, but public health officials expect it to ...

Formerly known as the "Asthma Walk", the event raises vital funds to support programs and services for people right here in the greater Knoxville area as ...

For the eighth year in a row, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) released a new list of the 100 “Allergy Capitals,” considered the most ...

The H1N1 virus is still around in Wisconsin but at the lowest rate since October. Joe Cadotte reports health officials are encouraging people to get ...

Men over the age of 40 account for more than half of melanoma cancer deaths in the US. Doctors attribute this to lack of education and reluctance to see a ...

(May 18, 2010) — CRL Senior Living Communities, which operates several independent living, assisted living and Alzheimer's/memory care residences in the ...

Parents of younger kids may want to bring their children to a doctor for a food allergy test, as a recent survey has found that the number children ...

... May 18, 2010 - 10:01 am The Rock County Sheriff's Office will soon use its electronic monitoring technology to find people with Alzheimer's disease, ...

GM has announced that it is working with Google to add even more interesting features to the Volt mobile app for the Android platform. ...

FDA approval of the Alair System was based on the results of the Asthma Intervention Research 2 (AIR2) Trial, a multicenter, double-blind, sham-controlled ...

This study was recently published with the title: "Preventing Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline." The conclusion of the this large, 727 page report ...

Four Defense Department-funded collaborators have demonstrated swine flu vaccine production within 12 weeks of receiving an unknown target amino acid ...

By MATT WOLF LONDON — “I love love,” announces Henry (Toby Stephens), the playwright whose embrace of passion will bring with it an abundance of pain, ...

Instead of finally putting to rest the question of a possible link between cancer and cell phones, the long-awaited Interphone study has only left everyone ...

Many studies have suggested that eating red meat can be harmful to your health — increasing the risk of death from cancer or heart disease — yet new ...

Reese, who is an Alzheimer's patient, was located in Kansas City. Reese was reported missing after she left to visit a relative at Shawnee Mission Medical ...

... on child health showing that nearly 40% of nine to 15-year olds in the Hunter Valley and New England region had suffered at some stage from asthma. ...

“Even people that don't normally have allergies are having running noses and other problems.” Time will tell whether the rest of the allergy season ...

“With this new research indicating a considerable risk of heart disease as a result of working overtime, this should send alarm bells to workers and their ...

The latest news on Alzheimer's isn't so good. The disease is still irreversible. It still demolishes memory and thinking skills. ...

Because of prior battles with PS 65's principal, sources said, Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, demanded the feds also add a ...

Unfortunately, distinguishing between an authentic allergy and a probable allergy is very difficult. Doctors cannot even give a 100 percent definitive ...