Few Parkinson's patients enroll in trials; Michael J. Fox aims to change that

When Linda Morgan was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in October 2005, her doctor told her that her symptoms weren’t bad and instructed her to come back in a year. Sit around and wait -- for a year?! No thank you, thought Morgan, who felt like she needed to do som …

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Non-stop hiccups only clue to man's heart attack

Hiccups are annoying, especially when they just won't quit.

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Kids' brain injuries can cause lingering problems for years, study finds

Mark Napadano watched in horror as his 13-year-old son slammed head first into the hard ground after a motocross accident.  In seconds he was at the side of his son, Sam, terrified by the sight of the junior high athlete so full of life just moments before lying limp in fro …

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1 in 8 low-income parents waters down formula, study finds

Many low-income parents feel they must resort to “formula stretching,” to keep their infants fed, even with government food assistance programs, a new study shows. The study found that 30 percent of parents who brought their infants to an inner city children’s c …

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Serious issues in disabled girl transplant case

Three-year-old Amelia Rivera has a rare, very serious genetic disease known as Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome that can cause mental impairment, epileptic-like seizures and kidney failure.

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Babies learn to speak by lip-reading, could offer autism clues

By Joan Raymond For years, the conventional wisdom was that babies learned how to talk by listening to their parents. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that our little angels are using more than their ears to acquire language.

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Transplant nurse donates own kidney to patient

The way Clay Taber looks at it, he’s got three moms now. There’s the woman who gave birth to him and raised him, of course.

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Girl, 9, who was taunted on Facebook for her illness, dies

By msnbc.com staff and news services A 9-year-old Detroit-area girl whose battle with Huntington's disease drew attention after she was taunted online in 2010 by her grandmother's former neighbor has died. Michigan Memorial Funeral Home in Flat Rock, which is handling arrangemen …

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Smoking pot doesn't hurt lung capacity, study shows

Periodically smoking marijuana doesn't appear to hurt lung capacity, the largest study ever conducted on pot smokers has found. Even though most marijuana smokers tend to inhale deeply and hold the smoke in for as long as they can before exhaling, the lung capacity didn't deteri …

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A final reason to lose weight

Those who are grossly overweight often feel guilty about many things.

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Another reason dogs rule: They know what you're thinking

Scientists have finally proven what every dog owner knows – our canine friends read our facial expressions like dedicated detectives. Dogs don’t just depend on verbal commands to figure out what we want, a new study shows.

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Deaths from most cancers drop, report says

By MyHealthNewsDaily staff Cancer death rates have continued to decline in both men and women in recent years, according to a new report. Between 2004 and 2008, cancer death rates decreased by 1.8 percent per year in men, and by 1.6 percent per year in women.

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Seeing double? Number of twins in U.S. spikes

The number of twins born to American women has risen dramatically over the past three decades, a new government study shows. The twin birth rate rose 76 percent from 1980 through 2009, according to report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention that was released  …

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Senior moment - or just mulling a response?

Seniors may be just as mentally agile as younger people.

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Despair over Kim Jong Il: Real grief or forced?

The images of North Koreans frantically weeping and wailing during Wednesday's funeral procession for Kim Jong Il may seem forced and fabricated to Americans who viewed the former leader as a dangerous despot. But experts say that the scenes we’re seeing on TV aren&rs …

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Should scientists create deadly viruses? Yes, says bioethicist

One of the predictable consequences of science’s rapidly growing knowledge of genetics is that the knowledge can be put to use to kill, harm or terrorize. Controlling dangerous knowledge is not easy and rarely foolproof—just look at the history of successful spyi …

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D'oh! Top science journal retractions of 2011

By Christopher WanjekLiveScience Bad Medicine columnist Bad science papers can have lasting effects. Consider the 1998 paper in the journal the Lancet that linked autism to the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.

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Should scientists have conducted research to see if they could make the deadly H5N1 flu virus more contagious?

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'No better gift': College student wakes from coma

After Sam Schmid, a business major at Arizona State University, was critically injured in a five-car crash in October he was given a slim chance of recovering. He was unresponsive after suffering a traumatic brain aneurism and his family considered taking him  …

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How Kim Jong Un's looks may help him rule

Photographs show he has his grandfather’s double chin and dark eyebrows, and his haircut supposedly is a throwback to the older man’s style in the 1940s.

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Why layaway angels touch even the Grinchiest of hearts

They've been called layaway angels, Secret Santas, good Samaritans and even miracle workers.

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First memories may happen as early as age 2

By Jennifer WelshLiveScienceMost adults suffer from childhood amnesia, unable to remember infancy or toddlerhood. That's what scientists thought. But a new study indicates that even six years after the fact, a small percentage of tots as young as 2 can recall a unique event.

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Experts discount claims of U.S. deaths from Japan radiation

A provocative new study released this week suggests as many as 14,000 Americans may have died as a result of exposure to radioactive particles blown here from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown in March.

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Deadly shoulder massager relaxes, strangles

If you think you’ve found the perfect gift for Grandma, and it happens to be a ShoulderFlex massager, buy her something else quick.

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Maggots speedier than surgeons at wound cleaning

By Rachael RettnerMyHealthNewsDaily The idea of putting maggots into open flesh may sound repulsive, but such a therapy might be a quick way to clean wounds, a new study from France suggests.

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