Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and lower their risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Those who kicked the habit had a 13 per cent reduction in the risk of death from all causes including heart and vascular problems [...]

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The latest saga in the endless quest to find a magic bullet for weight loss was released Tuesday.
“It is the Holy Grail of pharmacology,” said Marc Shelton, an Illinois cardiologist who moderated a session at which the new research was presented.
The study involved the diet drug rimonabant, which is available in [...]

Preterm birth contributes to several long-term quality of health issues, including lower educational achievement, lower rates of reproduction, and an increase in the likelihood that future offspring will be born preterm and with complications, according to researchers at the Duke Medical Center.
Preterm birth, meaning birth before 37 weeks of gestation, is the leading cause of [...]

The graveyard shift is the worst time to call code blue, a new study finds. Patients who go into cardiac arrest while in the hospital are more likely to die if it happens after 11 p.m., when staffing may be lower or patients watched less closely.
“Our findings should be a pretty big wakeup call to [...]

Researchers from Kent State analyzed data from nearly 500 married adults from 13 counties in northeastern Ohio and found that only about one-fifth of employed women and men were satisfied completely with the time they spend with their spouse and their children.
Men were more likely to want more time with their spouses, while women were [...]

In a special pediatric program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, recent patients have included a 100-pound 3-year-old girl and a 417-pound 15-year-old boy. Some children had to be weighed on a loading dock scale.
In a Milwaukee hospital in May, 285-pound Charles Hayes stooped to kiss his 248-pound wife, Jodi, 33, [...]