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 | | | | | | |  | | | | December 22, 2008 04:11 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even a little bit of extra weight can raise the risk of heart failure, according to a U.S. study published on Monday that calculated the heart hazards of being pudgy but not obese.
| | | December 22, 2008 09:59 AM ET
 | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in China and the United States have identified mutations of two genes which appear to make ethnic Chinese more susceptible to lung cancer, they wrote in the journal Cancer.
| | | December 22, 2008 02:02 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African Americans are less likely than whites to seek end-of-life hospice care -- and a new study suggests that hospice admission criteria may be partially to blame.
| | | December 22, 2008 11:28 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A vaccine to protect against infection with the bird flu virus, the pathogen experts fear is capable of causing pandemic disease in humans, proved safe and effective in a preliminary clinical trial with children, mirroring the results of a recent trial conducted in adults, Hungarian researchers report in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
| | | December 21, 2008 05:44 PM ET
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have created the first human model for studying a devastating nerve disease, which allows them to watch how the disease develops and could help researchers find a way to treat it.
| | | December 22, 2008 04:56 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mobile teleconsulting is a feasible way to evaluate remotely located patients who have just had a stroke, according to a report in the current issue of the journal Stroke. Although researchers found that hospital-based, land-line systems still provide better quality communication.
| | | December 22, 2008 03:23 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Painful swelling of the arm or shoulder area following treatment for breast cancer -- a condition called lymphedema - is more common in women who are overweight or obese than in women of normal weight, researchers have found.
| | | December 22, 2008 12:36 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new study suggest that patients with psoriatic arthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis accompanied by psoriasis, may have "subtle" cardiac conduction disturbances. Researchers point out, however, that it is not yet known if these irregularities lead to serious heart disease.
| | | December 22, 2008 03:17 AM ET
| KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - HIV carriers should not be allowed to marry, in order to avoid having sick children, a top Malaysian politician was quoted on Monday as saying.
| | | December 22, 2008 06:24 AM ET
 | BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Thousands of parents and their children protested outside hospitals in the southern Indian city of Bangalore following false rumors that children had fallen sick after being given polio drops, police said on Monday.
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Even a tiny bit of flab raises heart failure risk
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