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By Ellin HolohanHealthDay Reporter | HealthDay – 5 mins ago FRIDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) — A new study suggests that severe weight gain might raise the risk for rheumatoid arthritis — a painful, chronic ailment — especially among obese women. The epidemiological research indicated that about half of the increase in rheumatoid arthritis cases in one [...]

ATLANTA, May 2 (UPI) – Frozen raw yellowfin tuna — Nakaochi Scrape — from Moon Marine USA Corp. is the likely source of two Salmonella outbreaks, U.S. officials say. Investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said consumers should not eat the recalled product, and retailers should not serve the recalled [...]

A woman smokes a cigarette in Arlington, Virginia on June 12, 2009. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. Glenn)  License photo Published: March. 29, 2012 at 12:09 AM CINCINNATI, March 29 (UPI) – Girls appear to suffer more than boys from the effects of secondhand smoke, a study by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine found. First [...]

Published: March. 26, 2012 at 10:59 PM BALTIMORE, March 26 (UPI) – Children with autism spectrum disorder are bullied three times more frequently than their siblings who did not have autism, U.S. researchers found. Dr. Paul Law, director of the Interactive Autism Network Project at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, said the study found 63 percent [...]

Published: Feb. 18, 2012 at 2:12 AM ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 18 (UPI) – U.S. college students have a significantly higher rate of admissions for alcohol problems than their non-student counterparts, federal health officials found. A report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found 46.6 percent of all substance abuse treatment admissions [...]

Published: Jan. 24, 2012 at 12:26 AM BOSTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) — The presence of co-occurring psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions may result in a change in autism spectrum disorder, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Andrew Zimmerman of Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and colleagues at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public said questions remain as [...]

MONDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) — Gastric bypass surgery results in faster and longer-lasting weight loss than does gastric banding, according to a new study by Swiss investigators. A gastric bypass operation called Roux-en-Y involves reducing stomach size with staples and connecting the smaller “pouch” directly to the small intestine. It is irreversible. Gastric banding, [...]

Published: Jan. 3, 2012 at 12:59 AM HOUSTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) — Students get more real-world training in the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s redesigned, four-semester nursing program, officials say. The Pacesetters track gives students their in-classroom course work, plus an opportunity to work a full-time clinical rotation schedule for 16 weeks [...]

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) — As the obesity epidemic spreads around the world more people are suffering from acid reflux, likely increasing the number of those who will develop esophageal cancer, a new study suggests. In Norway, the prevalence of acid reflux, also called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), has risen almost 50 percent in [...]

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. 23, 2011 at 3:19 PM BOSTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) — Both cyberbullying and school bullying victimization are higher among non-heterosexually identified U.S. youths, researchers say. In fall 2008, researchers surveyed 20,406 high school students in Boston’s MetroWest region to assess their bullying victimization and psychological distress, including depressive symptoms, self-injury and tendency toward [...]