A pilot study has found that children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show some improvement in their symptoms after playing a specially designed videogame for 30 minutes a day.
Basketball players may be at a higher risk for blood clots that travel to their lungs. Such clots are highly dangerous, but the authors of the study say their findings need to be reproduced in larger groups.
Researchers say that people who eat food in moderation actually have lower diet quality and worse metabolic health than people who eat a small number of healthy foods.
Researchers say that the decline of testosterone in men can predict how likely they become more sensitive and responsive to their children in times of distress.
New research finds that low-fat diets were no better than higher-fat interventions in achieving and maintaining weight loss for periods longer than one year.
Two-thirds of the people in the world who are under age 50 are infected with the herpes virus that causes sores around the mouth. More than 3.7 billion people under age 50 are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), according to WHO.
Breast cancer was diagnosed less often in black women than white women, the death rate for breast cancer has been higher in black women. Now, the racial gap in diagnosis has closed, but the death gap has widened.
Health authorities in Oregon have confirmed a case of bubonic plague in a teen. They think the girl was bitten by a flea and infected during a hunting trip this month in northeastern Oregon.
Tuberculosis remains to be a deadly disease, based on the new press release from the World Health Organization on Wednesday, Oct 28. In fact, the number of TB deaths is almost equal to that of HIV/AIDS, making it one of the world’s leading killers.
