CHICAGO (Reuters) -
Air pollution heavy in small particles
may cause blood clots in the legs, the same condition air
travelers call “economy class syndrome” from immobility during
flight, researchers said on Monday.
Dr. Andrea Baccarelli of the Harvard School of Public
Health in Boston and colleagues said they found the link after
looking at 870 people in Italy who had developed [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
Giving elderly people either Aleve or
Celebrex, two anti-inflammatory painkilling drugs, did nothing
to ward off the mental decline associated with the onset of
Alzheimer's disease, researchers said on Monday.
Several studies have suggested that long-term use of
certain painkillers in the class known as non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, can lower the risk of
developing the memory-wasting disease.
However, using [...]

NAPLES, Italy (AFP) - Fearing for their health, an Italian couple living in the “Triangle of Death” near Naples where the mafia has illegally dumped tonnes of toxic waste has requested asylum in Switzerland.

“I didn’t have any other choice than to seek to leave, its my instinct to survive that has forced me to act,” [...]

Skiers smoke water pipes at a ski resort near Tehran, March 16, 2008. A sizable percentage of college students have tried smoking waterpipes, often under the false impression that they offer a ’safer’ way to smoke, a new study suggests. (Steve Crisp/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
A sizable percentage of college
students have tried smoking waterpipes, [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
The parents of two 10-year-old boys
who believe vaccines caused their sons to develop autism
brought their case to U.S. federal court on Monday, arguing a
mercury preservative in the shots caused a rare reaction.
Their case is the second of three being heard by a special
court trying to determine if autism might sometimes be caused
by vaccines. [...]

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Sen. John Edwards, who is currently battling a recurrence of breast cancer, testifies before the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Leading advocates in the fight against cancer Thursday urged lawmakers to overhaul the health care system to put all Americans on an equal footing when it comes to [...]

Prosecutors in Spain have opened a preliminary investigation into the deaths of 18 people linked to a multi-drug resistant bacteria outbreak at a Madrid hospital, a judicial source said Monday. The hospital's director, Joaquin Martinez, seen here in 2004, told a news conference on Sunday that the bacteria was contributing factor but not the main [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Older adults with knee
arthritis may be able to reduce some of the load on their knee
joint by walking with a cane, a new study suggests.
Australian researchers found that when they had 20 knee
arthritis patients walk with a cane, it lessened the force on
the inner side of the knee joint with each [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Adults with higher levels of
hostility are more likely to be lighter at birth and throughout
childhood than less hostile people according to a study
published in journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
Hostility has been linked to risk of cardiovascular disease
and all-cause mortality, but it is uncertain why this occurs,
note Dr. Katri Raikkonen, of the University of [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Six months after a stroke,
survivors who are able to walk but still have
moderate-to-severe difficulty in doing so, make better progress
in their walking ability through physical therapist-assisted
training than training provided by a robotic device, according
to report published in the medical journal Stroke.
“We wanted to know whether using a robotic device that
guides the [...]