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Mar. 05, 2012

Too busy to go to bed? Having trouble getting quality sleep once you do? Your health may be at risk.

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Mar. 05, 2012

The American Geriatrics Society endorses the new recommendation because there are probably many unreported cases among older adults.

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Mar. 03, 2012

The longer you have diabetes, the higher your risk for stroke, according to a study in Stroke, an American Heart Association journal. In the study, diabetes increased stroke risk 3 percent each year and tripled the risk for people who had diabetes for 10 years or more, compared to people without diabetes...

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Mar. 02, 2012

Scientists are testing a tool that lights up the breaks these injuries leave deep in the brain's wiring, much like X-rays show broken bones.

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Mar. 02, 2012

MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer's patients creates a blockade that shuts off genes necessary to form new memories. Furthermore, by inhibiting that enzyme in mice, the researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms...

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Mar. 01, 2012

Times are tough: Among those older than age 75, nearly 40 percent lived below 200 percent of the poverty line in 2009.

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Mar. 01, 2012

Federal health officials have approved the first vaccine that protects against four strains of the common flu, offering one additional layer of protection against the influenza virus that affects millions each year.

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Mar. 01, 2012

New technology is letting scientists map the brain's connections in ever-greater detail, raising hopes for the treatment of disorders such as autism.

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Mar. 01, 2012

We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehabilitation and prosthetics...

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Feb. 29, 2012

Inactivity produced spikes in blood sugar levels in healthy young volunteers, which may help explain why sedentary behavior raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

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