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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who get diagnosed with cancer may be more likely to develop diabetes, a Korean study suggests. The study included 524,089 men and women, ages 20 to 70, who didn’t have...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The knowledge that getting a flu shot can help prevent flu from spreading in the community may help convince more people to get vaccinated, a U.S. study suggests. Even though doctors...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People who can see wind turbines from their homes may be more annoyed by these machines and more likely to report quality of life issues than individuals who live further away from wind...

By Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – Children whose mothers stick to healthy lifestyle practices are less likely to be obese than children of less healthy moms, researchers report. “Living a healthy lifestyle can not...

By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. private citizen who visited China has reported symptoms like those of U.S. diplomats afflicted with a mysterious illness in Havana and Guangzhou, a U.S. State Department...

By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) – Seeing the same doctor over the years helps people live longer, suggests a new international study. “We had nine different countries on four different continents in all sorts of...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Dehydration can impair your ability to think clearly, a new study suggests. Researchers found that athletes who lost fluid equal to 2 percent their weight took a hit to their cognition....

By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) – Air pollution could be responsible for 3.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes every year globally, suggests a new analysis. “We estimate that about 14 percent of diabetes in the...

By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Exposing children to secondhand tobacco smoke increases their risk of developing habitual snoring, according to an analysis of existing research.   The results, from 24 studies...

By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africans are paying too much for private healthcare, the country’s antitrust watchdog said on Thursday, adding patients are sometimes prescribed treatments they...

By Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – Folic acid fortification not only protects developing babies against certain birth defects but also supports healthy brain development through the teenage years, researchers report....

By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) –  Waning eyesight may hasten the pace of cognitive decline in older people, suggests a U.S. study.   The results suggest that vision fixes, like a new eyeglass prescription or surgery to...

By Jocelyn Wiener (Reuters Health) – Health clinics where low-income people in the U.S. obtain medical care don’t always offer help with quitting smoking – and availability of that assistance may vary by...