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TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- PET scans may provide doctors with a non-invasive method of detecting Alzheimer's disease-related brain plaques, Finnish researchers say.

Currently, the only reliable way to assess the presence of such plaques is through analysis of brain tissue samples obtained when a patient is alive or after death. In their study, University of Kuopio researchers examined 10 patients without severe dementia...

TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- PET scans may provide doctors with a non-invasive method of detecting Alzheimer's disease-related brain plaques, Finnish researchers say.

Currently, the only reliable way to assess the presence of such plaques is through analysis of brain tissue samples obtained when a patient is alive or after death. In their study, University of Kuopio researchers examined 10 patients without severe dementia...

Women who survive breast cancer for five years after treatment have a relatively low risk of the disease recurring, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday.
Even women with serious stage III breast cancer have only a 13 percent risk of the cancer returning if they survived the first five...

TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- PET scans may provide doctors with a non-invasive method of detecting Alzheimer's disease-related brain plaques, Finnish researchers say.

Currently, the only reliable way to assess the presence of such plaques is through analysis of brain tissue samples obtained when a patient is alive or after death. In their study, University of Kuopio researchers examined 10 patients without severe dementia...

(HealthDay News) -- Reading is a fun activity for you and your toddler, and it helps your child build important language skills.

Here are suggestions for reading to your toddler, courtesy of the Nemours Foundation:
Read at a scheduled time each day, such as before bedtime. If your child asks you to read a certain book, read it -- even if it's the same one you read...

(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

Malignant Adenoma

If you are at least 18, diagnosed with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (including de-novo stage IV disease), and are eligible for chemotherapy, you may qualify for this study.

The research site is in Walla Walla, Wash.

More information

Please see http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat217.html.< /p>
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Post Menopause

If you are aged 40 to 80, are post-menopausal,...

THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Adequate sun exposure and vitamin D levels may play an important role in helping to prevent type 1 diabetes in children, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, analyzed type 1 diabetes incidence rates and found that populations living at or near the equator -- where there is abundant sunshine -- have lower rates...

THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Teens with bipolar disorder are at greater risk of smoking and substance abuse, says a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study that supports previous research.

"This work confirms that bipolar disorder in adolescents is a huge risk factor for smoking and substance abuse, as big a risk factor as juvenile delinquency," study leader Dr. Timothy Wilens, director of substance abuse services in...

Hispanic workers die at higher rates than other laborers, with 1 in 3 of these deaths occurring in the construction industry, a government study reported Thursday.
Hispanics tend to hold more high-risk jobs than those in other racial groups, but language and literacy barriers and poor training and supervision may also be factors, researchers said. The leading causes of death in recent...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A 15-year-old girl died of bird flu last month, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided to keep the news quiet. It is part of a new policy aimed at improving the image of the nation hardest hit by the disease.
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Thursday...

The tragic death of a South Carolina 10-year-old more than an hour after he had gone swimming has focused a spotlight on the little-known phenomenon called "dry drowning" -- and warning signs that every parent should be aware of.
"I've never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water," Cassandra Jackson told NBC News in...

Few nursing home patients at high risk of bone fractures are given medications to strengthen their bones, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that of more than 4,400 older adults admitted to a nursing home after sustaining a fracture, only 11.5 percent were prescribed a medication for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
This, the investigators say, is despite the fact that guidelines recommend "strong consideration" of drug therapy, beyond vitamin D...

WASHINGTON - In Memphis, black Medicare beneficiaries are nearly six times as likely as whites to have a leg amputated, a complication stemming from vascular disease and diabetes.
In Mississippi, 57 percent of women aged 65-69 got mammograms in a two-year period versus 74 percent in Maine.
And, in Alaska, 71 percent of Medicare patients with diabetes got an important annual test for...

Is it wrong to turn to a friend to fulfill your emotional needs when your spouse doesn't? Any advice for a frustrated husband whose wife has a painful skin condition that rules out sex? Sexploration answers your most intimate queries. Got a question?
You, questioner two, make your husband sound like...

General Electric Co., the international conglomerate with a stake in everything from jet engines to network television, is investing $20 million in technology that will allow doctors to share and transmit images of microscopic human tissue.
The partnership with a Pittsburgh hospital marks GE's entrance into a $2 billion market and could help expand its GE Healthcare division.
GE Healthcare and the University...