They typically don’t survive as long as male patients, study finds. Women on long-term oxygen therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are 54 percent more likely to die than male patients, a new study shows.
Older men and women with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to fall multiple times in the course of a year than their peers with adequate vitamin D levels, researchers in The Netherlands have found.
By examining more than 120,000 children under age 6 in Massachusetts over 22 years, a newly published study shows that young children – especially infants – are now more likely to be overweight.
A couple’s risk of having a pregnancy end in miscarriage appears to rise along with the father’s age, regardless of how old the mother is, researchers reported Monday.
Are you gaining weight? Does this make you worry about your cholesterol level? Do you feel like you need to do something about your eating habits particularly your cholesterol diet?
A prospective study by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that obesity and smoking are strongly associated with a greater risk of erectile dysfunction (ED).
Smokers with wrinkles have a higher risk of getting lung cancer than those without wrinkles, a study says.
Researchers around the globe are looking for connections between osteoporosis, a bone-wasting disease that affects some 25 percent of the world’s over-50s, and a host of other ailments from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease.
A new study by researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, suggest that cysteine(amino acid) containing tablets and chewing gum can be a new way for the prevention of upper digestive tract cancers.
The risk of developing diabetes for people who don’t smoke nonsmokers — but not smokers — is lower in those with higher levels of carotenoids in their blood, according to a new report.