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Too much alcohol use, however, may promote dementia. The results indicate that cognitively normal adults, 75 years or older, who are moderate drinkers are 40 percent less likely to develop dementia over 6 years than are their non-drinking peers.

MAPLEWOOD, MN--(Marketwire - July 16, 2009) - U.S. News & World Report names St. John's Hospital one of America's Best Hospitals. St. John's is one of 174 medical centers nationwide ranked in 16 specialties. St. John's was ranked among the Top 50 hospitals in Urology. 'We are very excited and honored to be one of America's Best Hospitals and named among some of the most prestigious urology programs in the country,' said Scott North, VP/CEO, St. John's Hospital. 'As our community's primary health care resource and in partnership with our physicians, we offer our patients treatment options with advanced technologies, such as the da Vinci® Surgery System. St. John's strives to provide the best experience for every patient, every time.'

A total of 91,546 adults contracted HIV in 2008. This translates to about 20 commuter taxis filled with people getting infected daily After a dramatic fall in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Uganda in the 1990s, the pandemic is spreading again in the east African country, a government report released this week showed.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case.

Lung Cancer Attacks at The Age of 70, Does it give You More Freedom to Smoke? >> Posted By WikiMap 3 hours, 3 minutes ago in News Various factors have been associated with the development of lung cancer including tobacco, which is the most responsible for one of every six deaths in the United States.

Posted on: Thursday, 16 July 2009, 08:36 CDT Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that disclosing genetic risk information to adult children of patients with Al...

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that disclosing genetic risk information to adult children of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) who request this informatio...

Schering-Plough Corporation announced that it has extended to stage two an ongoing Phase II clinical study with vicriviroc, its investigational CCR5 antagonist, for use in first-line therapy of adult treatment-naive HIV-infected patients with R5-type virus only.

More than 2 million people in the United States will suffer a bone fracture every year due to osteoporosis.

Objective: To examine whether personality traits are related to all-cause mortality in a general adult population in Scotland. Methods: The Edinburgh Artery Study began in 1987 to 1988 by recruiting 1592 men and women aged 55 to 74 years to be followed-up for atherosclerotic diseases. The NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) was completed by 1035 surviving participants in 1995 to 1996. Deaths from all causes were examined in relation to personality traits and social and physical risk factors for mortality. Results: During follow-up, 242 (37.1%) men and 165 (24.6%) women died. For the whole sample, there was a 28% lower rate of all-cause mortality for each 1 SD increase in NEO-FFI openness (95% CI, 0.61–0.84) and a 18% lower rate of all-cause mortality for each 1 SD increase in NEO-FFI conscientiousness (95% CI, 0.70–0.97). In men, the risk of all-cause mortality was 0.63 (95% CI, 0.5–10.78) for a 1 SD increase in openness and 0.75 (95% CI, 0.61–0.91) for a 1