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This may sound scary, but researchers say it s actually reassuring: Women who suffer migraines are more likely to have brain lesions (hyperintense areas) detectable on an MRI.
The fact that there is no evidence of cognitive loss among these women is good news, says Dr. Linda Porter, pain health science policy adviser in the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

An estimated one in every 15 hospital patients receive more than the safe daily dose of the common pain-reliever acetaminophen, according to a new study.

Body mass index (BMI) may provide better accuracy than cholesterol levels when used in a prediction algorithm to estimate cardiovascular disease risk, according to a recent Swiss study.

The nation's rate of premature births is the lowest in a decade. Dropping for the fifth straight year, the preterm birth rate in 2011 was 11.7 percent, giving the U.S. a C, according to the March of Dimes Report Card. The March of Dimes has set a goal of 9.6 percent by 2020.

It s enough to make us crave our favorite In-And-Out burger. All future Mondays in the City of Angels are going to be officially meatless, the Los Angeles City Council has decided by a 12-0 vote, making it the biggest city in the nation to embrace the Meatless Mondays campaign, an initiative associated with John Hopkins University s public health school.

Starving yourself overnight before having your blood taken for a cholesterol test may not be necessary after all. A new study finds there s only a slight difference between fasting and nonfasting cholesterol levels. There was some fluctuation with diet for triglyceride levels and blood sugar, however, but even that was slight.

We re normally fans of New York Times science writer Jane Brody but her latest column on quitting smoking is incorrect and irresponsible. To begin with, she claims that, People ages 18 to 25 now have the nation s highest smoking rate: 40 percent. Um, no.

The long-awaited results of a clinical trial of the world s first potential malaria vaccine among infants are finally in and somewhat disappointing.

Survivors of colon cancer whose diets are heavy in complex sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods are more likely to have a recurrence of the disease than are patients who eat a better balanced diet, according to a new study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

As public health delegates from around the world begin meeting in Seoul, South Korea, for a meeting to discuss revisions of the World Health Organization s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty, a public policy expert is warning them against a dangerous group-think with regard to tobacco harm reduction.

Last month, in his blog on Medical Progress Today, ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom expressed his surprise over a provocative new study suggesting that beta-blockers less effective than previously thought or maybe even useless.
He s expanded on those thoughts in a more comprehensive article for New Scientist magazine, entitled Beta blockers are busted what happens next?

Researchers investigating breast cancer are reassessing the effects that alcohol can have on the disease, as ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross explains in his latest column for Examiner.com.

The Environmental Working Group is wasting no time in trying to influence policy now that the election is over. The group issued a statement Wednesday saying it look[s] forward to working with the administration to advocate more effective regulation of oil and shale gas drilling and overhauling the federal Toxic Substances Control Act. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Safe Chemicals Act earlier this year, but the bill never even made it to the Senate floor, much less to the House.

The cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins can reduce the risk of subsequent cardiovascular events among those who have had one already, and possibly prevent an adverse event from ever occurring. Can they also prevent you from dying of cancer? That s what a number of headlines are suggesting today, based on a poorly conceived study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Are you among the majority of people who dread having a colonoscopy? Well then here s some good news for you. A new study suggests having the procedure done just once in a lifetime may be enough for most people.

The nation s smoking cessation programs just aren t working but health officials are stubbornly refusing to admit it.
Statistics released yesterday from the Centers for Disease Control show that 19 percent of U.S. adults smoked in 2011, a rate little changed from the 19.3 percent that did in 2010 and the 20.9 percent who puffed in 2005.

It s been 60 years since the first solid reports of the causal effects of cigarettes and premature death and disease made the news, and almost 50 since the Surgeon General s report made believers out of almost everyone: Cigarettes are killers.

We d call the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wolves in sheep s clothing, but we re certain they would take offense. They are a vegan group posing as health experts, but that didn t stop gullible journalists from carrying their water. And it seems the President is their new target?

Rheumatoid arthritis an autoimmune disease in which the body s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, gradually destroying the body s joints affects an estimated 1.5 million Americans, with an estimated 30 to 40 percent of them beyond the help of available drugs.

The iconic 90-year-old perfume Chanel No.5 is one of the most well known perfumes worldwide. Now, this world-famous perfume along with other famous brands such as Shalimar may soon be banned by the European Union after scientists found that some of the ingredients may cause allergies.

Patients who undergo total hip replacement surgery may have a four- to five-fold increased chance of stroke within the first two weeks, a recent study suggests.

Patients with type 2 diabetes taking a widely prescribed drug are suffering more heart attacks, strokes and deaths than those taking another common treatment, according to a startling new study that raises the question whether the drug is dangerous.

If you have high blood pressure, watch out. You may be putting your brain at risk even if you re under 40.

Sixty years after health reports started tallying the deadly toll of cigarettes, millions of people are still addicted to tobacco. Writing in Examiner.com, ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross uses the release of a Million Women Study in Britain to examine the damage women have sustained, and continue to sustain to their bodies, thanks to the scourge of addiction to cigarettes:

Using brain scans, researchers from Banner Alzheimer s Institute in Arizona have detected some of the earliest signs of Alzheimer s disease, more than two decades before symptoms would normally occur.