Health

Hyperthermia: too hot for your health

Hot summer weather can pose special health risks to older adults. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has some advice for helping older people avoid heat-related illnesses, known as hyperthermia.

Plastics Chemical Linked to Obesity in Kids

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Could Fertility Drugs Make Kids Shorter?

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Effects of High Blood Pressure Drug May Mimic Celiac Disease

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Extra treatment during prolapse repair reduces incontinence rate

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From left to right: Pelvic organ prolapse before surgery, pelvic organ prolapsed after surgical correction, and...

For young children with autism, directing attention boosts language

An intervention in which adults actively engaged the attention of preschool children with autism by pointing to toys and using other gestures to focus their attention results in a long term increase in language skills, according to researchers...

Adding nevirapine to HIV regimen halves newborn transmission rate

Adding the drug nevirapine to the regimen given to newborns of women diagnosed with HIV shortly before or during labor halves the newborns' risk of contracting the virus, according to findings by a National Institutes of Health research network.

Children exposed to HIV in the womb at increased risk for hearing loss

Children exposed to HIV in the womb may be more likely to experience hearing loss by age 16 than are their unexposed peers, according to scientists in a National Institutes of Health research network.

NIH study finds HIV-positive young men at risk of low bone mass

Young men being treated for HIV are more likely to experience low bone mass than are other men their age, according to results from a research network supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Weight-loss surgery increases alcohol use disorders over time

Adults who had a common bariatric surgery to lose weight had a significantly higher risk of alcohol use disorders (AUD) two years after surgery, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research consortium.