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Researchers say they have found a new treatment for cancer patients suffering depression

Researchers say they have found a new treatment for cancer patients suffering depression

An estimated 4,000 bee species are native to the United States, including about 350 in the Philadelphia region.

Want to slow the signs of aging and live longer? New Saint Louis University research suggests cutting back on calories could be a promising strategy. Calorie restriction has long been shown to slow the aging process in rats and mice. While scientists do not know how calorie restriction affects the aging process in rodents, one popular hypothesis is that it slows aging by decreasing a thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine (T3), which then slows metabolism and tissue aging.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of rochester medical Center have found. The new findings shed light on a long-debated potential role for statins in the area of dementia. Neuroscientists found that statins, one of the most widely prescribed classes of medication ever used, have an unexpected effect on brain cells.

A flurry of recent research indicating that Vitamin D may have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited an intense debate over whether federal guidelines for the "sunshine vitamin" are outdated, leaving millions unnecessarily vulnerable to cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments.

Leaders of a Richmond-based Catholic charity under federal investigation are scrambling to explain the organization's involvement in helping a 16-year-old illegal immigrant in its care get an abortion in January.

PLANS to "twin" Scotland's three island health boards with mainland authorities could be the start of the "slippery slope towards centralisation", opponent

AN American who was born a woman but has lived as a man since having surgery has given birth to a baby girl, it was reported last night.

A BABY whose parents are both GPs, was born in a bath just yards from a maternity hospital.