- SATURDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) — People face a higher risk
of stroke after surgery if they have low blood pressure during their
operation, a new report shows.

The finding, to be presented Saturday at the American Society of
Anesthesiologists annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., looked at 30,000
patients undergoing surgery in a six-year period. It focused on [...]

- SATURDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) — Women appear to respond
better than men to chronic pain treatment, and men who smoke appear to
receive even less of benefit, a new study says.

The Mayo Clinic study, to be presented Saturday at the American Society
of Anesthesiologists annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., involved more than
1,200 men and women [...]

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

Medicaid Expenditures Will Rise Sharply in
Coming Years: Report

Spending on Medicaid, the joint federal-states program that pays for
medical care for those who can't afford it, will outpace the rate of
growth in the U.S. economy over the next decade, threatening [...]

Graphic illustrating how HIV infects healthy cells. One year after a puzzling setback in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine, researchers say their defeats have forced them to look for entirely new ways of creating a defence against the disease.(AFP graphic/Francis Nallier)

CAPE TOWN, (AFP) -
One year after a puzzling setback in the hunt for [...]

File photo shows an injured person being taken into the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Chronic diseases such as back pain and arthritis are forcing many older Australians out of work and costing the economy 10 billion US dollars a year, a study released Sunday said.(AFP/Matt Black Productions/File/Scott Webster)

SYDNEY (AFP) -
Chronic diseases such as [...]

TORONTO - Canada declared a chemical widely used in food packaging a toxic substance on Saturday and will now move to ban plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A.
The toxic classification, issued in the Canada Gazette, makes Canada the first country to classify the chemical commonly used in the lining of food cans, eyeglass lenses and [...]

PHILADELPHIA - The routine was the same as always — the exact way I have grown accustomed to dealing with the hours before a big race. But on that November morning last year, everything else was different.
I had awakened before the sun and come downstairs to all of my running gear, laid out perfectly the [...]

Janne Mueller-Wieland reacts during the women’s bronze medal hockey match at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Injuries to the head and face are fairly common in women's field hockey, raising the question of whether players need more protective gear, according to researchers.

In a study of six college [...]

People receive traditional Chinese medical treatment at a clinic in Beijing July 15, 2007. (China Daily/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Older African-American, Native American and non-white Hispanic women are more likely to develop arthritis than their white counterparts, and the larger prevalence of obesity among these ethnic groups may help explain why, new research shows.

Among 146,494 [...]

Students exercise during a ballet class at the Vietnam Dancing School in Hanoi, August 30, 2007. (Kham/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Regular aerobic exercise can not only stave off the decline in brain function that often comes with age, it can also help turn back the clock on brain aging, two experts in the field report, [...]