Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers ? but they don?t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. 
A new report suggests that women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies than do obese women who become pregnant. 
Physicians transplanted a human windpipe, using stem cells from the recipient?s bone marrow to reline a donor trachea and prevent its rejection by her immune system. 
Powerful antipsychotic medicines are being used far too cavalierly in children, and regulators must do more to warn doctors of their risks, a panel of experts said. 
The court upheld the right of states to prohibit the sale of doctor-specific prescription drug data that is widely used in pharmaceutical marketing. 
After a Senate inquiry found evidence of deceptive marketing, AARP has hired an outside investigator to look into sales of some of its popular health insurance products. 
A large clinical trial of almost 15,000 men taking vitamins E and C for up to 10 years has found that neither supplement had any effect on cancer rates. 
Children between the ages of 1 and 3 months with slight fevers fall into a gray zone of treatment guidelines. 
In the largest randomized trial of ginkgo biloba to date, researchers found that the extract did not prevent or delay memory loss or Alzheimer?s disease. 
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Chronic kidney disease is a killer that sneaks up on thousands of people with diabetes or untreated high blood pressure. 
Infants conceived with techniques commonly used in fertility clinics are two to four times more likely to have certain birth defects than are infants conceived naturally, a study found. 
The cancer drug Avastin raises the risk of blood clots in the veins by a third when added to chemotherapy, researchers said. 
When is it safe -- let alone useful -- to joke with a psychiatric patient? 
A new study finds that babies born to women who had gestational diabetes are about twice as likely as others to have language delays. 
Sweet potatoes contrast beautifully here with the pungent Stilton in this salad. 
A yoga instructor has incorporated walking lessons into his yoga classes, insisting that proper alignment helps keep you moving toward better health. 
Although one could argue that more carbohydrates is the last thing a Thanksgiving meal needs, they?re also in keeping with the holiday?s spirit of excess. 
The school bake sale is becoming obsolete in California, as new standards restrict what foods can be sold to students. 
Nothing ruins a good run quite like a ton of steel in your path. 
A federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of the state?s first-in-the-nation law that restricts drug company access to some information about doctors? prescription-writing habits. 
A Bush administration proposal would protect health care providers who cite religious or moral objections. 
In a letter to Congress, federal scientists said that officials ignored their concerns and approved unsafe or ineffective medical devices. 
More than half of Americans with chronic health problems skip pills and doctors? appointments because of their costs, according to a new survey. 
Many workers are finding that the buffet of options in their medical plans has been trimmed to a very short menu. 
Every year, myths about the flu vaccine spread as widely as the flu itself. 
Caregivers should not feel guilty about looking out for No. 1. 
Is it time to put cholesterol-lowering statin drugs in every medicine cabinet? 
In a profession where anxiety is often the starting point of a doctor-patient relationship, the standard patient questionnaire will never go deep enough. 
A mother?s request to her daughter for ?help? if something should happen to her is agonized over, accepted and eventually fulfilled. 
In the developed worlds, AIDS has become a chronic condition to be managed but a diagnosis still comes with its own challenges. 
James Chippendale of Dallas was told his only change of survival from leukemia was a bone marrow transplant ? which he received from Klaus Kaiser, a donor from Germany. 
A young woman almost loses her mind, and no one can figure out why. 
The Jets? Alan Faneca, who has lived with epilepsy since he was a child, has stepped forward in helping others overcome the stigmas of the neurological disorder. 
Scientists have tried to get a handle on how people make voting decisions, but predicting voter behavior is still extremely difficult. 
In a new book, nurses speak out about a charged working relationship and the casual stories deliver a remarkably wide perspective. 
With the time pressures of medical practice it can be easy to ignore the sorts of things that make a patient into a real person. 
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