Author: Reuters

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Young adults who develop PTSD may be more likely to have a stroke by the time they are middle aged, a study of U.S. veterans suggests. Researchers followed almost one million young and...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Poor language comprehension may raise the odds of a repeat hospitalization, a Canadian study suggests. Researchers in Toronto found that patients with limited English proficiency were...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older adults who take many common medicines may be more likely to fall and be injured when they drink alcohol, a recent study suggests. Researchers focused on a wide variety of medicines...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Pregnant women may be “eating for two” – or more – but when it comes to twin pregnancies, gaining too much weight may be as bad as gaining too little, a U.S....

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Global health officials will on Thursday announce a partial victory in the decades-long fight to end polio, with a second of three strains of the crippling virus certified as eradicated...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Women are often mistreated during labor and delivery at hospitals in low-income countries, a new study suggests. During in-person observations of births at urban hospitals in Ghana,...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women hospitalized for bulimia may be more likely to develop heart disease and die prematurely, a recent study suggests. Researchers compared 818 women hospitalized for bulimia and more...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – More than half of premature infants grow up to be healthy adults without chronic medical issues, a new study suggests. Researchers followed 2.56 million babies born in Sweden between...