Diseases/Conditions News

LONDON (Reuters) - Swimming in outdoor chlorinated pools appears to increase the odds a child will develop asthma, Belgian researchers said on Thursday.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A new and improved DNA stool sample test to screen for colon cancer is twice as effective at catching cancer and serious precancerous polyps than either current blood stool sample tests or an older version of DNA testing, new research reveals.

WASHINGTON - People with mental illness would get better health insurance coverage as part of a a giant financial bailout the Senate passed Wednesday, but the legislation's fate remains uncertain.

NEW YORK - The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ongoing sinus inflammation, also called chronic sinusitis, may be at least partly to blame for the aches and pains in older adults, according to research reported today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation in Chicago.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Breaking complex cancers down to the single-cell level to study the key signaling events needed for the disease to form and progress may hold hope for improved diagnoses and treatments in the future, a new report says.

(Reuters) - Medical-device maker Cyberonics Inc said it could not get a partner for its brain stimulation treatment in the depression indication, sending its shares down as much as 10 percent.

PARIS (AFP) - The AIDS virus, previously thought to have been transmitted from chimps to humans in the 1930s, may have leapt the species barrier more than a century ago in west-central Africa, scientists said on Wednesday.

THURSDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Children given acetaminophen during the first year of life to reduce fever are more likely to develop asthma later on, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Men who drink a moderate amount of red wine may lower their risk of lung cancer, even if they smoke, researchers report.

MONDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) -- In children and teens, individual and group cognitive behavioral therapy helps reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma symptoms, say U.S. researchers who reviewed of dozens of studies on the subject.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - HIV infections jumped 8-fold over the past few years in parts of China among gay and bisexual men, according to new data from southern China.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Infants who have been given the common pain reliever paracetamol may have a higher risk of developing asthma and eczema by the time they are 6 or 7, a large study covering children in 31 countries has found.

TUESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- A treatment that helps prevent one type of breast cancer in women with an evaluated risk of the disease also appears to help doctors make an earlier diagnosis of another form of breast cancer, a new study reports.

DALLAS - Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday.

TUESDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Drugs used to treat obesity may be effective against a wide range of viral infections such as the flu, hepatitis, and even HIV, say researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center and Princeton University.

THURSDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Increasing use of folic acid and other dietary supplements by women may be one reason why the prevalence of asthma has nearly doubled in the past 25 years, U.S. researchers are suggesting.

SUNDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Men who are overweight and who have high insulin levels when they are diagnosed with prostate cancer may be more likely to die from the disease, research shows.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart patients should be screened routinely for depression, a common complication that can make a second heart attack more likely, according to guidelines released by the American Heart Association on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US immigration officials on Monday announced moves to ease and speed up visa-processing for HIV-positive visitors to the United States, months after a 21-year entry ban on people with the virus was lifted.

PARIS (AFP) - A chronic runny nose, taking paracetamol in infancy, and wheezing as a child are all conditions linked to the onset of adulthood asthma, a trio of studies reported Friday.

MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A new technique may help doctors diagnose a rare form of leukemia in a matter of hours instead of weeks, researchers say.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers Sunday struck a deal on an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout for struggling Wall Street banks to avert the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

FRIDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- As the number of countries reporting intravenous drug use has increased over the last decade, a new study suggests that as many as 3 million of these addicts may be HIV-positive.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among children who have a parent with allergies or asthma, delivery cesarean section appears to increase the odds that they will develop allergic rhinitis and atopy -- but not asthma -- US researchers report.

PHILADELPHIA - Most people over 75 should stop getting routine colon cancer tests, according to a government health task force that also rejected the latest X-ray screening technology.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers pushed to finalize a deal to create a $700 billion government fund to buy bad debt and halt the financial crisis as European regulators scrambled to prevent two banks from collapsing.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Children who attended a daycare center as infants are 35 percent less likely than their peers to have asthma symptoms by age 5, according to new research.

A German scientist has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his discoveries about the family of viruses that cause cervical cancer.