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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Doctors may be overtreating high blood pressure in U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals, a new study suggests. One in seven older veterans with hypertension are sent home from...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women with silicone breast implants may have a higher risk of certain medical problems than women who don’t get implants, but more research is needed to get a complete picture of...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Even though many people swear by fitness trackers to help lose weight and stay in shape, a review of existing research confirms that many of these gadgets are not very good at measuring...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – New mothers who want intrauterine devices (IUDs) for long-acting contraception after giving birth should know the risk of the implant being expelled is tied to how soon after delivery it...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – For people with diabetes, the chance of developing eye damage that can lead to blindness may depend on how many hours per day they can keep their blood sugar levels under control, a...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – An HIV-prevention drug pill, dubbed PrEP, dramatically reduced new infections in a large group of high risk gay men, Australian researchers report. Although HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis...

By Kate Kelland LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) – A respected science journal is to withdraw a much-cited review of evidence on an illness known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) amid fierce criticism and pressure from activists...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adolescents from low-income families are more likely than their affluent peers to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease like obesity, inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use, a...