Health Tip: Preventing Osteoporosis

(HealthDay News) -- Osteoporosis is a disease in which the bones become thin, frail and brittle, and may break easily. Women and older people are more prone to developing osteoporosis, although it can affect people of any age or gender.

Health Tip: Dealing With Grief

(HealthDay News) -- Grieving is a natural healing process after a significant loss, including the death of a loved one, the decline of one's own health, or the breakup of a relationship.

Emotions May Be Blunted in Alzheimer's Patients

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with Alzheimer's disease often can seem withdrawn and apathetic, symptoms frequently attributed to memory problems or difficulty finding the right words.

Black Couples Benefit From Program to Curb Spread of HIV

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- A couple-focused program cut risky sexual behaviors among black American couples in which one partner has HIV and the other is HIV-free, researchers report.

Program Teaches Parents How to Nurture Healthy Eaters

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Teaching first-time mothers to feed their infants "responsively" results in the babies being more likely to become healthy eaters, which reduces their risk of obesity, U.S. researchers say.

Can Self-Hypnosis Help Tourette Patients Control Tics?

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Children and young adults with Tourette syndrome can gain control over their involuntary tics through self-hypnosis, a small new study suggests.

Intervention May Help Relieve Cancer Patients' Pain, Depression

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients' ability to cope with pain and depression was improved through a program that included home-based automated symptom monitoring and telephone-based care management, a new study has found.

Gene Linked to Obesity May Also Raise Dementia Risk

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- A variant of the obesity-related gene FTO may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, finds a new Swedish study.

Brain Grows Quickest in Areas Where Apes, Humans Vary: Study

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- The regions of the human brain that grow most rapidly during infancy and childhood are nearly identical to the regions that are most different between humans and monkeys, new research has found.

Experts Issue New Guidelines on Breast Cancer Drugs

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- A leading group of cancer experts has issued new guidelines on the best way to use two classes of hormone therapies for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, the most common form of breast tumor.

Alzheimer's May Increase Seizure Risk

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- People with Alzheimer's disease appear to be at increased risk for seizures, researchers have found.

Association Found Between Alzheimer's and Anemia

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Alzheimer's disease may be linked to an increased risk of anemia, new study findings suggest.

Word Games May Predict Life of Relationship

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Want to know if your romantic relationship will last "'til death do you part" -- or if you are cruising toward a breakup?

Health Highlights: July 13, 2010

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

FDA Panel Seems Skeptical Over Key Avandia Data

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- During hearings Tuesday into the safety of controversial diabetes drug Avandia, members of the U.S. government panel that could decide the drug's fate seemed skeptical of much of the data presented.

Childhood Cancer Survivors at Risk of Premature Death

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Childhood cancer casts a long shadow. Those who survive the original cancer are at high risk of dying prematurely decades afterward from new cancers, heart disease and stroke likely caused by the cancer treatment itself, British researchers report.

Alzheimer's Research Spotlights Protein 'Tangles' in Brain

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Several new studies to be presented Tuesday at a major Alzheimer's conference describe progress in a series of immune-based therapies that target the tau protein, one of the two major proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

Method of Failed Suicide May Predict Successful Attempt

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- The method a person uses for an attempted suicide helps predict the future chances of a completed suicide, new research has found.

1 in 3 U.S. Docs Wouldn't Report Impaired, Incompetent Colleague

TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- A large survey of American doctors has found that more than one-third would hesitate to turn in a colleague they thought was incompetent or compromised by substance abuse or mental health problems.