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It's all good: Any exercise cuts risk of death, study finds

by Marilynn Marchione - January 10, 2017 - 7:10am

Weekend warriors, take a victory lap. People who pack their workouts into one or two sessions a week lower their risk of dying over roughly the next decade nearly as much as people who exercise more often, new research...

Ebola drug shows some promise in first tests in West Africa

by Marilynn Marchione - February 24, 2015 - 9:14am

An experimental antiviral drug shows some early, encouraging signs of effectiveness in its first human test against Ebola in West Africa, but only if patients get it when their symptoms first appear.

US officials unveil novel plan to test Ebola drugs

by Marilynn Marchione - November 6, 2014 - 8:42am

The quest for an Ebola treatment is picking up speed. U.S. officials have unveiled a plan to test multiple drugs at once, in an umbrella study with a single comparison group to give fast answers on what works. ...

Study: Young people more likely to survive Ebola

by Marilynn Marchione - October 30, 2014 - 8:20am

Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa

by Marilynn Marchione - October 19, 2014 - 6:23am

Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big.

Experimental Ebola drug heals all monkeys in study

by Marilynn Marchione - August 30, 2014 - 7:00am

An experimental Ebola drug healed all 18 monkeys infected with the deadly virus in a study, boosting hopes that the treatment might help fight the outbreak raging through West Africa — once more of it can be...

Study questions need for most people to cut salt

by Marilynn Marchione - August 15, 2014 - 4:00am

A large international study questions the conventional wisdom that most people should cut back on salt, suggesting that the amount most folks consume is OK for heart health — and too little may be as bad as...

US gov't had role in Ebola drug given aid workers

by Marilynn Marchione - August 6, 2014 - 5:48am

Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a...

Study: Married folks have fewer heart problems

by Marilynn Marchione - March 29, 2014 - 12:30am

Love can sometimes break a heart but marriage seems to do it a lot of good. A study of more than 3.5 million Americans finds that married people are less likely than singles, divorced or widowed folks to suffer any...

Doctors hope for cure in a 2nd baby born with HIV

by Marilynn Marchione - March 7, 2014 - 4:02am

A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment — in this instance, four hours after birth.

Blood clot risk lasts for 12 weeks after pregnancy

by Marilynn Marchione - February 15, 2014 - 2:08am

Women have a higher risk of blood clots that can cause strokes, heart attacks and other problems for 12 weeks after childbirth — twice as long as doctors have thought, new research finds.

First guidelines issued to prevent stroke in women

by Marilynn Marchione - February 8, 2014 - 12:10am

Just as heart attack symptoms may differ between men and women, so do stroke risks.

Doctors: Too few patients enroll in cancer studies; many forced to end early, slowing progress

by Marilynn Marchione - January 31, 2014 - 5:01am

One of every 10 clinical trials for adults with cancer ends prematurely because researchers can't get enough people to test new treatments, scientists report.

Study ties nuts to lower cancer, heart death risk

by Marilynn Marchione - November 23, 2013 - 1:31am

Help yourself to some nuts this holiday season: Regular nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease — in fact, were less likely to die of any cause — during a 30-year Harvard study...

Gen X vs baby boomers: Kids less than parents were

by Marilynn Marchione - November 20, 2013 - 12:57pm

Today's kids can't keep up with their parents. An analysis of studies on millions of children around the world finds they don't run as fast or as far as their parents did when they were young.

Study: Most twins can be born without a C-section

by Marilynn Marchione - October 4, 2013 - 7:13am

Expecting twins?

Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections

by Marilynn Marchione - October 4, 2013 - 6:09am

Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers...

Obese cancer patients often shorted on chemo doses

by Marilynn Marchione - September 20, 2013 - 7:21am

Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated.

Drug safely cuts prostate cancer risk, study finds

by Marilynn Marchione - August 16, 2013 - 3:00am

Long-term results from a major federal study ease worries about the safety of a hormone-blocking drug that can lower a man's chances of developing prostate cancer.

Study ties higher blood sugar to dementia risk

by Marilynn Marchione - August 9, 2013 - 2:01am

Higher blood-sugar levels, even those well short of diabetes, seem to raise the risk of developing dementia, a major new study finds. Researchers say it suggests a novel way to try to prevent Alzheimer's disease...

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