Month: August 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Former professional U.S. football players with a history of concussions may be more likely to experience low testosterone and erectile dysfunction later in life, a recent study suggests....

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Exposure to secondhand chemicals emitted from e-cigarettes is on the rise among middle- and high-school students, a new study suggests. A survey that included tens of thousands of U.S....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Roughly half of children and adults who say they’re allergic to sesame don’t have a history of convincing symptoms, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on 78,851...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Doctors are much more likely to make mistakes ordering medicines or treatments for babies in the ICU when these infants are twins or triplets than when they are they singletons, a U.S....

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – The combined results of 61 studies conducted in 19 countries suggest that when a woman gives birth by cesarean section, autism in the child is 33% more likely and the odds of...