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Multiple combat deployments to Iraq are increasing serious mental health problems among soldiers, triggering drug and alcohol abuse and contributing to record suicide levels, suggest reports out Thurs...

Language and cultural barriers cause a significant number of elderly Hispanics with Alzheimer's disease to remain undiagnosed and untreated, experts say, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.

Combination treatment for type 2 diabetes using two classes of drugs -- metformin and sulfonylureas -- may increase the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular disease and mortality, according to a report in the current issue of Diabetes Care.

Dissociative disorder that begins in childhood or adolescence frequently persists into adulthood and is often followed by other psychiatric disorders, according to a report published online in the journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental health.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Certain commonly available skin creams may cause skin tumors, at least in mice, and experts should be checking to see if they might cause growths in people as well, researchers reported on Thursday.

As poets, songwriters and authors have described, our memories range from misty water-colored recollections to vividly detailed images of the times of our lives. A new study offers new insights into the specific components of emotional memories, suggesting that sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember - and what we forget.Reported [...]

Cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by painful skin ulcers, occurs when the parasite Leishmania major, or a related species, is transmitted to a mammalian host by the bite of an infected sand fly. In a new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of health, scientists have discovered L. major does its damage by not only evading but also by exploiting the body's wound-healing response to sand fly bites, as reported in the August 15 issue of 'Science.'

Federal authorities say about 200 patients have developed complications from receiving doses of the injectable form of naltrexone for alcohol dependence.

West Virginia officials have reported that because of hard-core tobacco use in some of the state's poorest households, children on the state's Women, Infants and Children program rolls are exposed to secondhand smoke at twice the national average.

Summaries of recent news about children's health coverage in Iowa and Texas appear below.Iowa: Implementing a plan to provide coverage to all children in the state could take up to four years, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports.