Diseases/Conditions News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primitive cells that resemble stem cells may help some ovarian cancer tumors linger and recur in the body, but it may be possible to subdue them, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people who have recovered from a bout of clinical depression, mild emotional stress or sadness can reactivate depressive thinking and this may increase the risk of relapse, researchers report.

Monday, July 10 (HealthDay News) -- Parkinson's disease patients can be apathetic without being depressed, and apathy may be a core characteristic of Parkinson's, U.S. research shows.

MOSCOW - Russia's chief epidemiologist said Tuesday that the country was suffering a shortage in HIV medicines and acknowledged that bureaucratic bungles had contributed to the problem.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Complications of pregnancy in obese women with asthma may have more to do with obesity than with asthma, researchers report in the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to certain airborne fungal spores in early childhood may increase the risk of developing non-fungal allergies, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Conversely, some fungal types seem to protect against the development of allergies.

MONDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Although many pediatricians recommend Benadryl for babies who have trouble sleeping, a new study finds the antihistamine doesn't work as a pediatric sleep aid.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - An antihistamine most commonly sold as Benadryl does little to help infants sleep through the night even though parents and some doctors think it does, according to a study published on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The benefits of physical activity do not extend to reducing the risk of developing ovarian cancer, according to a new study reported in the International Journal of Cancer.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sexually experienced middle- and high-school teenagers with higher levels of depressive symptoms are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, a new study shows.

MASERU (AFP) - ) - Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates will this week make his first visit to Lesotho in the company of his wife and former US president Bill Clinton to visit various anti-HIV/AIDS projects.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Public education efforts to raise awareness of the risk factors for malignant melanoma, along with improved access to screening exams, can improve melanoma screening rates among men 50 years of age and older, new research suggests.

FRIDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors and their patients need a more balanced picture of the risks and benefits of the popular antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a new report contends.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among teens who engage in unsafe sex, there are different patterns of behavior, with some subgroups being much more at risk of HIV infection than others, a new study shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An allergy drug pulled off the market in 1999 could work to treat malaria, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

MONDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) -- What if you organized an important cancer clinical trial and nobody came?

THURSDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Depression can help prompt sexually active teens to engage in risky sexual behavior such as not using condoms or contraceptives, a new survey shows.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prostitutes in southern India are being given discount shopping cards in return for having regular checks at a sexual health clinic as part of a project to raise HIV/AIDS awareness.

(HealthDay News) -- Although you may be among millions of Americans with allergies, there are things you can do to tame your symptoms, the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology says.

MONDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) -- A new survey finds that American women are greatly uninformed about the threats posed by lung cancer and how it can affect them.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The drug clozapine is more effective than olanzapine or haloperidol at reducing aggressive behavior in violent patients with schizophrenia, new research shows. This ability to curb aggressiveness seems to be separate from the drug's antipsychotic effect.

THURSDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Only 38 percent of teen and young adult sexual assault victims who were prescribed antiviral medications to prevent HIV infection returned for follow-up visits to medical centers, a new report finds.

The American Egg Board calls it incredible, but for children with an egg allergy, the egg is simply inedible.

WASHINGTON - Curbing tobacco use and taking other steps to eliminate some of the most common risk factors for cancer could save millions of lives over the next few decades, health officials said Monday.

WEDNESDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- The first generic versions of the popular antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline) have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya has contributed 17 million dollars to a program to help fight HIV-AIDS in the northern town of Benghazi where hundreds have contracted the disease, a senior official said.

(HealthDay News) -- Because some infants have sensitivities or allergies to certain foods, the Children's Hospital in Richmond, Va., suggests you choose single-ingredient infant cereals and plain fruits and vegetables until you know what your child can tolerate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tobacco use now kills 5 million people a year and if people continue to smoke the way they do now, their habit will kill half a billion who are alive today, according to a new cancer atlas published on Monday.