[caption id="attachment_2842" align="aligncenter" width="152" caption="percentage of children who have died from seasonal flus since 2003 and swine flu in 2009"][/caption] WASHINGTON – The director of ...

One of the many tragedies of Alzheimer's disease is that patients don't know until it's too late that they actually have the condition. By the time the first signs of forgetfulness and confusion set in, experts believe, the disease has ...

LONDON (Reuters) – A sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer is also to blame for half of all cases of cancer of the penis, Spanish researchers said on Tuesday. The finding suggests already available human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines for cervical cancer are also likely to be effective in the fight ...

THURSDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are allergic to milk may be able to overcome their allergy by drinking increasingly higher doses of milk, a new study finds. In 2008, researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore reported that children with a severe milk allergy could "retrain" their ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Finnish researchers say they have identified a blood-flow metabolism mismatch that predicts pancreatic cancer aggressiveness. The investigators used a three-dimensional imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET) to measure blood flow and glucose consumption -- a measure of general metabolic activity of a tissue -- ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- An abnormal immune response to wheat proteins may contribute to type 1 diabetes, Canadian researchers say. Their study of 42 people with type 1 diabetes found that nearly half had immune system T-cells that overreacted to wheat. The researchers also identified genes associated with this ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Patients recovering from breast cancer surgery have a greater chance of avoiding a painful and debilitating post-surgery condition if they get a little extra information, a study has found. Lymphedema is a condition that causes a debilitating swelling of the extremities following breast cancer surgery. ...

FRIDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity increases the risk of prostate cancer recurrence in both black and white men, says a U.S. study that challenges previous research suggesting obesity may be more significant for black men. "Not so. Obesity leads to worse cancer in both groups," study senior author Dr. ...

THURSDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Would a gruesome picture of a cancer-ravaged mouth with rotting teeth make you think twice about buying a ...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's weekend concession on a health care "government option" drew complaints from liberals and scarce interest from Republicans and other critics on Monday, a fresh sign of the daunting challenge in finding ...