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Stroke of Misfortune

Pregnant women are at an increased risk for a number of possible diseases and conditions. A new study suggests that they may also be at a heightened risk for heart disease due to high blood pressure syndromes.

Women Outlive Men With Cancer

Women typically live longer than men. This extended life expectancy even extends to survival rates of cancer patients.

Hold Your Applause, New Clap in Town

Several suggestions are offered to explain why gonorrhea is called "the clap". Two possibilities are French words, which date to the 1500s. Clapoir is a sexual sore and clapier is a brothel.

Shingles Recurrence More Common Than Believed

For decades, common medical wisdom about shingles held that it is a one-time experience for virtually everyone it strikes. But recurrences may be much more common that doctors have long suspected.

Pacemaker patients have generally been unable to get an MRI because the magnetic fields can disrupt the device's operation, putting patients at risk for a heart attack. A newly designed pacemaker allows patients to safely receive an MRI.

States are Getting Wider

The obesity epidemic is a hot topic and continues to get hotter. Obesity rates have not been declining and it's literally a huge problem.

Brain Capitalizes on Emotion

When listening to stories full of emotion, it's normal to have a personal response. Storytelling can also stimulate a physical response in the human brain.

Call to Arms for STD Parasite Testing

A sexually transmitted parasite, which can cause inflammatory illnesses and premature births, is finding a seemingly unlikely home in women over 40 years old.

Fight Against AIDS Shows Improvements

More than 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010, 30 years after the first AIDS case was reported - and nearly that many (around 30 million) have died from AIDS-related causes. Here in the United States, an estimated 1.1 million people are HIV-positive.

Sniffing out Oral Cancer

Its' a new kind of breathalyzer test. But instead of checking blood alcohol levels, this new device can acutally sniff out oral cancer.

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