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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Osteoarthritis of the knee is more common in people who’ve had injuries to the ligament or the cartilage that help stabilize the knee joint, a research review suggests. Compared to...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Although experts supervising new pediatricians and teaching trainee doctors agree that preventing child and teen suicide is important, most also say current training isn’t...

By Manas Mishra (Reuters Health) – College athletes playing water polo may sustain more head impacts than people have realized, a U.S. study suggests. And water polo players in offensive positions take relatively more hits...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Elderly people who fall may not always be stumbling over things in the dark. A new study suggests most of these falls at home happen when there’s plenty of light. Falls are a...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Black men are more likely to die of prostate cancer than white men in the U.S., but a new study suggests this racial disparity may be largely due to differences in the medical care men...

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston say most of the face transplant patients they have been following for about five years are continuing to show improvement in quality...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Teens are more likely to get at least one of two recommended doses of the meningococcal vaccine when they receive their first shot by early adolescence, a U.S. study suggests....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older women who get in enough steps each day to walk the equivalent of about two miles – far less than the five-mile goal set by many Americans – might still live longer than...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Between 2003 and 2011, rates of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis among U.S. Army soldiers increased by more than 600 percent, a new study finds. Those who were deployed...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Many patients with life-threatening food allergies may feel anxious or overwhelmed at times, but it’s rare for mental health professionals to be involved in their care, suggests a...

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Pirbright Institute is partnering with Belgian biotechnology company ViroVet to develop the first antiviral drugs that act against African Swine Fever (ASF), according to a joint...