Jackie Syrop

People with migraines are at twice the risk of depression as people without migraine headaches, particularly those under age 30, according to a new Canadian study.

The FDA approved a new radioactive diagnostic drug for use with positron emission tomography imaging of the brain in adults being evaluated for Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Despite state laws mandating that those under the age of 18 use of bicycle helmets, a review of emergency department records in Los Angeles County found that only 11 percent of children in bicycle accidents were wearing a helmet.

A study of brain scans of preschool children found that children living in poverty who lack adequate nurturing early in life had smaller hippocampi than those who were not neglected.

Blood sample analysis showed that children with lower vitamin D levels were nearly twice as likely to have anemia as those with normal vitamin D levels.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing to investigate a potential link between Novartis's multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Gilenya (fingolimod) and a single case of a rare and serious brain infection in a European patient.

Parents want online options from children's health care providers; however, half of parents believe it should be free and providers are concerned about the feasibility of being on coll to answer emails.

Although screening for cognitive impairment can successfully identify patients with early-stage dementia, the benefits of such screening remain unproven.

A group of Taiwanese researchers recently reported in Neurology that depression is an independent risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD).

Higher levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are correlated with less multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity and progression, according to a study presented at ECTRIMS 2013.

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have increased 10 percent among children from 2005 and 2010, meanwhile the rates have fallen among adults, according to a CDC report.

In patients who don't have fully functional immune systems, cerebral manifestations of Chagas disease can be lethal.

A high prevalence of food and beverage brand endorsements from professional athletes is directed toward American young people, and the majority of these advertisements are for unhealthy food and beverages.

Children with low levels of vitamin D and recurrent episodes of acute otitis media have a reduced risk of acute otitis media after receiving vitamin D supplementation.

Researchers have determined that higher alpha-synuclein ratios are associated with greater autonomic dysfunction and more advanced disease stages, which suggests that an increased alpha-synuclein level may be a useful biomarker in Parkinson's disease patients.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a scientific statement on severe obesity in children and adolescents highlighting the health risks, challenges, and limitations of treatment for this issue.

Combination therapy with two antibiotics is not better than one and may be worse for children with gram-negative bacteremia, doctors found in a 10-year retrospective study.

Repeated noninvasive transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) helped treat post-stroke pain, spasticity, and motor symptoms in a small group of stroke patients, according to researchers who presented the findings at the XXI World Congress of Neurology 2013 in Vienna.

A worldwide survey conducted by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation has discovered that 2.3 million people around the globe currently live with multiple sclerosis (MS) - a 10 percent increase in the autoimmune disease's prevalence since 2008.

Aerobically fit students have greater odds of passing a state accountability math and reading test compared to their aerobically unfit peers, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Though roughly 14 percent of Parkinson's disease patients seen in routine practice have diplopia, most have not discussed it with their physicians, according to a new study presented at the annual meeting of the World Congress of Neurology, held from September 21-26, 2013, in Vienna.

The 2010 pertussis outbreak in California may have been related to parents' refusal to vaccinate their school-aged children, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.

A new study published in BMJ Open suggests middle-aged women who are under a lot of stress have a high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life.

Rethinking medical education about obesity and more news that your patients are reading.

Cardiac surgery teams should be trained to improve communication and teamwork, and hospitals should establish robust quality assurance systems to identify and correct safety hazards.

An online commentary published in the May 22/May 29 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association asserts that all hospitals should randomly test physicians for drug and alcohol abuse to increase patient safety.

Medicare will be assessing $227 million in fines against hospitals in 49 states as part of the federal government's campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month of discharge.

As part of a new pilot program, more than 300 US hospitals have begun to voluntarily report 30-day all-cause risk standardized readmission rates after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

The federal government's Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks (HENs), which work to improve patient care through implementation and dissemination of best practices in clinical quality, have released checklists for 10 areas of patient care.

A study conducted by the Bronx Collaborative group of hospitals and health insurers found that personal contact with patients before and after hospital discharge resulted in significantly lower readmission rates.