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NEW YORK - U.S. scientists say they are getting closer to one of medicine's elusive goals -- finding a cure for the common cold. A team of experts reported cracking the genetic codes of the 99 strains of common cold viruses and creating a catalog of vulnerabilities, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) said Friday. The researchers felt "quite certain" that "a ...

Doctors say a baby girl has become the first person in Britain to be genetically screened for a potentially fatal breast cancer gene. The baby, whose family has a history of breast cancer, was screened as an embryo before being implanted in her mother, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. Doctors wanted to select and implant an embryo free of the BRCA1 ...

Residents of nursing homes are one of the main reservoirs of anti-microbial resistant bacteria, U.S. researchers said. Study leader Dr. Erin' O'Fallon, a geriatrician at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and a research fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston said that the prevalence of a certain form of drug-resistant bacteria -- multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms -- far surpassed that of two ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher has developed a working vaccine for a strain of E. coli that kills 2 million to 3 million children annually in the developing world. Mahdi Saeed of Michigan State University's colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Human Medicine said that enterotoxigenic E. Coli is responsible for 60 percent to 70 percent of ...

MINNEAPOLIS – The salmonella bacteria that has sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states has been conclusively linked to peanut butter, Minnesota health officials announced Monday. State health and agriculture officials said last week they had found salmonella bacteria in a 5-pound package of King Nut peanut butter at a nursing facility in Minnesota. Officials tested the bacteria over the weekend ...

Only 18 months old, the girl struggled to breathe as her grandparents looked on in the emergency department. Pneumonia and asthma were the likely culprits, but she didn't respond to treatment. Her doctors and grandparents racked their brains for an explanation. Finally, the grandparents mentioned that because she had appeared to have a cold, "we put Vicks (VapoRub) right under her ...

Authors of a new study hope to begin a debate challenging the conventional wisdom about early detection of breast cancer. In an article in today's Archives of Internal Medicine, they ask: Do breast tumors ever go away on their own? Researchers of the controversial article note that one type of cancer found through screening - rare childhood tumors, called neuroblastoma - ...

Too many people die needlessly at U.S. hospitals, according to a sweeping new Medicare analysis showing wide variation in death rates between the best hospitals and the worst. The analysis examined death rates for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia at more than 4,600 hospitals across the USA. At 5.9% of hospitals, patients with pneumonia died at rates significantly higher than ...

More than just unhealthy, California's increasing girth is crippling the state's economy, according to a study of the economic cost of obesity in California released today by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA). In just six years, reported economic costs of adult overweight, obesity and physical inactivity have nearly doubled and are now costing California an estimated $41 billion ...

LONDON – The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates are regularly tested and treated, according to a new mathematical model. It is an intriguing solution to end the AIDS epidemic. But it is based on assumptions rather than data, and is riddled with logistical problems. The ...

WASHINGTON – Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory that helps us see the big picture and get creative. “Not only do we need to remember to sleep, ...

LONDON – Doctors screening women for ovarian cancer were able to pick up the disease about two years earlier than normal, according to a British study published Wednesday. Scientists have long searched for a way to identify ovarian cancer early, which kills nearly 100,000 women worldwide every year. If it is found early, nearly 90 percent of women survive. However, most ...

Men with angina are twice as likely to have a heart attack as women with early heart disease, research published this morning has found. The study of more than 1,700 patients newly diagnosed with angina (chest pain due to narrowing of the coronary arteries) was carried out by researchers from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) and the University of ...

NEW YORK - A common treatment that uses medical cement to fix cracks in the spinal bones of elderly people worked no better than a sham treatment, the first rigorous studies of the popular procedure reveal. Pain and disability were virtually the same up to six months later, whether patients had a real treatment or a fake one. Tens of thousands ...

WASHINGTON - A handful of children once severely allergic to peanuts now can munch them without worry. Scientists retrained their bodies to tolerate peanuts by feeding them tiny amounts of the very food that endangered them. Don't try this on your own. Doctors monitored youngsters closely in case they needed rescue, and there's no way to dice a peanut as small ...

A new report on substance abuse and mental health shows a small percentage of people are kicking smoking while alcohol and illicit drug-use levels remain steady. But the report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, out Thursday, also carries home the message that while all states have problems, there are big variations across the U.S. For instance, the ...

Lead in ginkgo pills. Arsenic in herbals. Bugs in a baby's colic and teething syrup. Toxic metals and parasites are part of nature, and all of these have been found in "natural" products and dietary supplements in recent years. Set aside the issue of whether vitamin and herbal supplements do any good. Are they safe? Is what's on the label really ...

WASHINGTON — Like any young woman in love, Bianca Acevedo has exchanged valentine hearts with her fiance. But the New York neuroscientist knows better. The source of love is in the head, not the heart. She's one of the researchers in a relatively new field focused on explaining the biology of romantic love. And the unpoetic explanation is that love mostly ...

WASHINGTON – In a big blow to parents who believe vaccines caused their children's autism, a special court ruled Thursday that the shots are not to blame. The judges in the cases said the evidence was overwhelmingly contrary to the parents' claims — and backed years of science that found no risk. "It was abundantly clear that petitioners' theories of causation ...