- (HealthDay News) — Hay fever is the medical term for a pollen
allergy, and may also be called seasonal allergic rhinitis or
pollinosis.

Here are other facts about hay fever, including suggestions to reduce
symptoms, courtesy of the American Lung Association:

Symptoms often include congestion, red and watery eyes, sneezing,
runny nose, and itchy eyes and ears.
Many people who [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Babies may cry for a variety of reasons, and
it's often difficult to figure out the reason for their unhappiness.

Here are signs that your baby may be in pain, courtesy of the
University of Michigan Health System:

Unusual crying: If the cry is in a different pitch than usual, if the
crying lasts longer, [...]

- MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — Parents of children with autism have
double the odds of having been hospitalized for a psychiatric condition
than parents of children without autism, according to a comprehensive
review of Swedish medical registries.

Eventually, the information may provide a way for experts to start
untangling the complex genetic and environmental interactions involved in
different [...]

- MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — In women who have been diagnosed with
breast cancer, having a known mutation in the BRCA 1 or 2 genes raises the
risk of a second cancer, and many of these women choose to have their
second breast removed before that has a chance to happen.

However, new research suggests that [...]

- MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — Patients who had private health
insurance before enrolling in a U.S. government children's health
insurance program called SCHIP still had unmet health-care needs,
according to new research.

A waiting period to qualify for the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP), a federally funded program offering health insurance to
low-income children not eligible [...]

- MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — The anti-clotting drug cilostazol is
as good as aspirin at preventing recurrent stroke and it causes less
bleeding in the brain, a study by researchers at Peking University First
Hospital in Beijing shows.

The trial included 360 patients stroke patients who took cilostazol for
12 to 18 months and 359 patients who [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Insulin Pumps Linked to Deaths, Injuries Among
Young People

Between 1996 and 2005, there were 13 deaths and more than 1,500
injuries reported among young people using insulin pumps to treat type 1
diabetes, says a U.S. Food and Drug Administration study. The [...]

- MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — The overproduction of a protein may
be what starts harmless colon polyps on their journey to becoming
malignant tumors, Finnish researchers report.

The University of Helsinki research, published online in Cancer
Cell, reveals that PROX1, a protein that controls formation of normal
organs in embryos, is produced in excess during the early [...]

- MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — Children who wet their beds
frequently have elevated levels of a heart hormone that helps regulate
levels of fluid around the heart, a new study finds.

Additionally, children who habitually snore are about three times as
likely to wet the bed as children who don't snore, but the severity of
snoring appears [...]

- TUESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) — Men with advanced prostate
cancer that hasn't spread beyond the gland should receive radiation
therapy as soon as the prostate has been removed, a new long-term study
says.

“What we are showing today is that there is a significant difference
between men who were treated with radiation and those who weren't,” study
co-author [...]