Doctors to be on guard for meningitis in kids

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials asked doctors on Thursday to be alert for possible cases of meningitis and other illnesses in children caused by Hib bacteria amid an ongoing vaccine shortage.

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More research needed into foodborne diseases: WHO

GENEVA (Reuters) - Foodborne diseases appear to be on the rise in both rich and poor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

Some women unaware of risks of delaying motherhood

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many women may not be fully aware of the potential consequences of waiting until later in life to have a baby, a UK study suggests.

Drug combo may help curb bedwetting

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In children who continue to wet the bed despite standard treatment with desmopressin, adding the bladder-control drug tolterodine (Detrol) to therapy leads to a significant decrease in the risk of bedwetting, Missouri-based researchers have found.

Policy has changed how organs are allocated

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An organ allocation policy that puts the sickest patients first in line to receive available donor livers for transplantation has created some unintended consequences for those patients low on the organ wait list, research suggests.

Elder suicide risk persists in long-term care

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Suicide has not declined among elderly people living in long-term care facilities as it has among community-living elders, research hints.

Dad's in-home smoking may harm family's health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fathers-to-be who smoke and want to protect the health of their families should take it outside, suggests new research from Korea.

Unintended pregnancy raises risk of future ones

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women and girls who've had an unplanned pregnancy in the past are at risk of future unplanned pregnancies, regardless of other risk factors like age and education, a new study shows.

Type 2 diabetes may slow mental processing speed

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research shows that among the mental abilities that are affected by type 2 diabetes, the speed at which the brain processes information appears to be the most severely impaired, particularly in patients with undiagnosed disease.

Removing small colon polyps costly, unnecessary

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The surgical removal of small colon polyps found during computed tomography imaging of the colon, or CT colonography, is costly and unnecessary, according to a new study.