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News Hour: One in three cases of dementia could potentially be prevented if brain health is improved throughout life by targeting nine risk factors, including continuing education in early life, reducing hearing loss in midlife, and...

News Hour: Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and stevioside are not associated with reduced BMI and may pose some risks, suggests a meta-analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Researchers identified 37 studies that looked at the...

News Hour: The world-renowned MAX Super Speciality Hospital Saket in New Delhi has launched special treatment packages for Bangladeshis who are suffering from different chronic liver diseases. An expert team from this hospital led by Dr....

News Hour: A 20-year study finds that radical prostatectomy is not associated with improved survival in patients with localized prostate cancer. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, are consistent with shorter-term findings....

News Hour: Women with early or normal onset menopause are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those with late onset menopause, concludes new research published in Diabetologia. Previous research (by the same...

News Hour: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with increased long-term risk for post-pregnancy hypertension, according to two studies in The BMJ. In the first, researchers used Danish health registries to study over 480,000 women with...

News Hour: Zika infection caused an epidemic in Brazil beginning in 2015 and has since been reported in most Latin American and Caribbean countries as well as some southern U.S. states and Puerto Rico. In a...

News Hour: Adults who improve their eating habits may see a long-term survival benefit, a New England Journal of Medicine study suggests. Using food-frequency questionnaires from Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study participants, researchers...

News Hour: Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report...

News Hour: Obese children and adolescents report high levels of victimization by peers, family, teachers, and healthcare providers. The stigma of being obese has been linked to depression, anxiety, poor academic performance, troubled social relationships, and...