Deep Brain Stimulation Offers Long-Term Relief For Parkinson's Patients

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) implants can provide long-term relief for people with Parkinson’s disease, a new study says.

Parkinson’s patients who got deep brain stimulation had better motor function, an improved ability to manage day-to-day tasks, and overall better quality of life after five years of DBS treatment, researcher...

Inflammation Linked To Fatigue Among Cancer Patients

Fighting cancer can leave patients tired to their bones and researchers now think they might know why.

Inflammation was linked to fatigue among nearly 200 women with early-stage breast cancer during and after treatment with radiation or chemotherapy, researchers reported Oct. 6 in the journal Cancer.

Specifically, inflammati...

Babies More Likely To Die If Mother Passes During Or After Pregnancy

Protecting newborns' lives starts with protecting the health of an expecting mother, a new study says.

Infants are 14 to 22 times more likely to die if their mother dies during pregnancy or just after delivering a newborn, researchers reported recently in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

“If we want to protect ...

Both Diet And Sugary Drinks Increase Fatty Liver Disease Risk, Study Says

People could be at higher risk of fatty liver disease from both sugary sodas and diet drinks, a new study says.

In fact, artificially sweetened drinks might pose a greater threat to liver health than sugary beverages, researchers reported Monday at the United European Gastroenterology's annual meeting in Berlin.

The team also found t...

Inhalers Produce More Than A Half-Million Cars' Worth of Carbon Emissions Annually

Inhalers provide breath-saving relief to people with asthma and COPD, but ultimately are undoing those good works by promoting climate change, a new study says.

Inhalers generated more than 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually over the past decade, researchers reported Oct. 6 in the Journal of the American Medical Associa...