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A Chinese woman walks past a giant coffee shop advertisement in downtown Beijing. A new study shows that coffee drinkers had a lower risk of death. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)  License photo BETHESDA, Md., May 17 (UPI) – A study of 400,000 U.S. men and women ages 50-71 found those who drank coffee — caffeinated or [...]

Published: March. 19, 2012 at 1:31 AM ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 (UPI) – A sister whose 3-year-old brother died 50 years ago of poisoning — the leading cause of unintentional U.S. injuries — said everyone needs to be vigilant. Cathy Seifried of Texas said her brother drank a bottle of rat poison and although every [...]

Published: March. 12, 2012 at 12:11 AM OXFORD, England, March 12 (UPI) – A British professor said one lifestyle change — smoking cessation — resulted in cutting in half the number of men dying in their 60s from heart disease. Sarah Harper, a professor of gerontology at the University of Oxford, said 11,000 men in [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite earlier concerns, dieters who repeatedly lose weight and then gain it back aren’t at higher risk of early death than people who don’t “yo-yo diet,” according to a new report. About two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and many are trying to shed the extra pounds. Over the [...]

FRIDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) — Obese people who have had surgery to treat esophageal cancer are twice as likely to have a recurrence of the disease or die from cancer within five years as patients of normal weight, according to a new study. In the study, published in the Dec. 1 issue of the [...]

Published: Dec. 17, 2011 at 2:05 AM NASHVILLE, Dec. 17 (UPI) — Statins — cholesterol-lowering drugs — may reduce mortality among patients hospitalized with influenza, U.S. researchers say. Dr. William Schaffner, professor and chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Meredith Vandermeer of the Oregon Public Health Division, said the observational study [...]

Published: Dec. 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Women who have had at least three screening mammograms cut their chances of dying of breast cancer in half, Dutch researchers found. Suzie Otto, a senior researcher in the department of public health at the Erasmus MC at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, [...]

Published: Nov. 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM BOSTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) — Children hit by both H1N1 and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus have a significantly higher risk of dying from the flu, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Adrienne Randolph of Children’s Hospital Boston, the study leader, said during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, many previously healthy children [...]

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Published: Sept. 22, 2011 at 3:09 PM Cantaloupes, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  ATLANTA, Sept. 22 (UPI) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed an eighth death from listeria-contaminated cantaloupes grown in Colorado. The CDC said the death occurred in Maryland but did not identify the victim, The [...]

Published: Aug. 26, 2011 at 12:14 AM ATLANTA, Aug. 26 (UPI) — The estimated annual cost of U.S. medical care and productivity lost due to violence each year is estimated at more than billion, researchers say. “Violence is an unfortunate reality of the world we live in with direct implications for health,” Dr. James Rippe, [...]