Breaking a major bone may increase risk of widespread chronic body pain in later life, a new study has found.Researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton, found that men and women who had a spine fracture and women…

Taking a high dose of vitamin D3 is safe for people with multiple sclerosis and may help regulate the body’s hyperactive immune response, according to a pilot study published by Johns Hopkins physicians in the Dec. 30 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of…

The human gut harbors a teeming menagerie of over 100 trillion microorganisms, and researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered that exercising early in life can alter that microbial community for the better, promoting healthier brain and metabolic activity over the course of…

Nearly 1 million incidences of herpes zoster, which is also known as shingles, occur every year in the U.S. alone, with an estimated one-third of all adults affected by age 80. Despite its prevalence, particularly between ages 50 and 59, it is still unclear why…

The caffeine in a morning cup of coffee could help improve athletic endurance, according to a new University of Georgia review study.Authored by Simon Higgins, a third-year doctoral student in kinesiology in the College of Education, the study was published in this month’s issue of…

Idiopathic pancreatitis is often caused by small gallstones that are difficult to observe prior to surgery, shows a study from the University of Eastern Finland. Small gallstones were found in surgery from two out of three idiopathic pancreatitis patients. The study also showed that acute…

Some doctors may recommend that patients with the flu take acetaminophen, or paracetemol, to relieve their symptoms; however, a new randomized clinical trial found no benefits to the over-the-counter medication in terms of fighting the influenza virus or reducing patients’ temperature or other symptoms.The trial…

Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet. The findings, which are published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, support the notion that exposure to…

Obese young people can still turn their chances of developing life threatening illness around if they change before middle age, says new research.The study looked at the body mass index (BMI) of people when they were young and compared it to when they were middle…

MD Anderson study in mice points to sugar’s impact on inflammatory pathways as culprit The high amounts of dietary sugar in the typical Western diet may increase the risk of breast cancer and metastasis to the lungs, according to a study at The University of…

Three-fourths of ER stroke cases had some degree of preventability, UCI survey finds Many strokes that required immediate treatment in emergency rooms may have been preventable, according to a University of California, Irvine study.While therapy for acute stroke continues to advance and improve patient outcomes,…

A recent cross-sectional study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham explored a new pathway between short sleep — less than seven hours — and obesity.Gabriel S. Tajeu, DrPH, a postdoctoral fellow in UAB’s Department of Epidemiology, in collaboration with Bisakha Sen,…