NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents' own chronic health problems may influence their perceptions of their asthmatic children's well-being, a new study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Turner syndrome, the most commonly diagnosed sex chromosome abnormality in women, not only leads to substantial illness but is also raises the risk of death, according to UK researchers.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fewer people are suffering stroke and fewer people are dying from stroke, new research from Sweden hints.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain ethnic groups and women with lower socioeconomic status are at increased risk of developing diabetes while pregnant, research shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diabetes can slow the brain, causing trouble with two types of mental processing in adults of all ages, Canadian researchers reported on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Many genes linked to various cancers do not appear to raise the risk of getting cancer after all, according to an analysis of hundreds of studies published on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most people in their 50s and older who are having difficulty walking will not get worse over the next 2 years, and many will actually improve, research set for publication in the American Journal of Public Health shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While stroke death rates are approximately 50 percent higher than average among residents of the southeastern U.S. -- the so-called "stroke belt" -- traditional risk factors contribute little to the higher death rates there, a national study indicates.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - White-coat hypertension is considered harmless in most people, but it appears to increase the risk of microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes, Brazilian researchers report in Diabetes Care.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Type 2 diabetes usually resolves in extremely obese adolescents who undergo weight loss surgery, according to a review of 11 such patients treated at five centers in the United States.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes are often overweight and many turn to unhealthy weight loss practices, such as using over-the-counter diet aids without a doctor's advice, fasting and taking laxatives, new research shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, not only helps obese individuals shed a significant amount of weight, it also significantly improves or completely resolves a common obesity-related liver problem known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a review of published studies shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large waist circumference, which is known to raise the risk of cardiovascular disease, may also raise the risk of stroke or mini-stroke, researchers from Germany report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having the so-called metabolic syndrome may raise the risk of chronic kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes, researchers from China report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Each serving of whole-grains may lessen heart failure risk by 7 percent among middle-aged African-American and white men and women, according to findings from a long-term study.

LONDON (Reuters) - A slow, chronic reduction of blood sugar to the brain could trigger some forms of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes may have a particularly high rate of deficiency in bone-building vitamin D, a small study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The increasing number of medications -- prescription and nonprescription -- used by older people has raised the potential for harm from serious drug interactions, doctors warn in a report published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, primarily used as a treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, improves glycemic (blood sugar) control during sleep in patients who also have type 2 diabetics, according to a report in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compared with other overweight children, overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes mellitus have a significantly higher prevalence of abnormal glucose tolerance, a risk factor for diabetes, according to researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research from a Singapore - U.S. team provides more evidence that sleeping too little -- or too much -- may be bad for your heart. The investigators also noted that diabetes and hypertension may contribute to this relationship.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A one-time set of steroid injections for pregnant women at high risk of giving birth prematurely can head off major problems for the baby, but more injections give no further benefit, Canadian researchers said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Following gestational diabetes, a type of diabetes that developments during pregnancy and usually goes away after pregnancy, treatment with metformin or intensive lifestyle interventions can prevent or delay diabetes from becoming permanent in the postpartum period, new research shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A one-time set of steroid injections for pregnant women at high risk of giving birth prematurely can head off major problems for the baby, but more injections give no further benefit, Canadian researchers said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking a walk instead of turning on the TV may help African-American women lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, a large study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For men with long-standing, poorly controlled diabetes, intensive efforts to regulate glucose levels have little effect on rates of heart attacks or stroke, complications such as eye damage, or death, according to a report published Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug companies should more thoroughly study the potential heart risks of new diabetes medicines, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with type 2 diabetes may be able to improve their health-related quality of life by getting fit, new research shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Telling teenage would-be smokers that lighting up may make them fat down the road may be a more effective deterrent than harping on the risks of heart disease and cancer from smoking, hints research published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer, the world's No. 2 killer, is even more lethal for people with diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people who have type 2 diabetes, a low-glycemic index diet is significantly better than a high-fiber diet for keeping blood glucose levels down, researchers report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. death rates from heart disease and stroke have fallen by about 30 percent this decade but there are ominous signs the worrisome obesity epidemic could snuff out the progress, experts said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adding radiation therapy to standard drug treatment can cut in half the death rate from advanced prostate cancer and should become the standard of care globally, Swedish researchers reported on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More cases of blood cancers classified as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, or NHL, seem to occur among people with diabetes than those without, researchers report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Use of a single dose of the drug methotrexate to treat ectopic pregnancy does not appear to curb a woman's fertility, according to Spanish researchers.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In people with type 2 diabetes, intensive drug therapy to significantly lower "bad" LDL cholesterol reduces the thickness of the carotid arteries, the major arteries in the neck that supply oxygen to the brain, research shows.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - High resting heart rates may be linked to the development of obesity and diabetes, a Japanese study shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A low dose of terbutaline at bedtime appears to prevent a drop in blood glucose, or hypoglycemia, during the night in patients with aggressively treated type 1 diabetes, without causing glucose levels to get too high the following morning, results of a pilot study indicate.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with a constellation of diabetes and heart disease risk factors known as the metabolic syndrome are more likely to be depressed than people who are free from these risk factors, Australian researchers report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The success of weight-loss in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes is not affected by a history of binge eating, according to a report in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Babies born four to six weeks prematurely have more than triple the risk of developing cerebral palsy than full-term babies, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Drug developer Vivus Inc said on Thursday the first of three late-stage trials found that obese patients treated with the highest dose of its experimental drug Qnexa on average lost 9.2 percent of their weight.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The investigational drug alogliptin alone is a safe and effective treatment for poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, according to study findings reported in the journal Diabetes Care.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that certain gene variants that increase the risk of type 1 diabetes also raise the risk of celiac disease, according to research published online today by The New England Journal of Medicine.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compared with standard treatment, intensive control of type 1 diabetes can help stave off diabetic eye disease, but over time this benefit will decline, according to new data from the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term treatment with fenofibrate, a type of fibrate drug often used to lower cholesterol, does not reduce coronary plaques or signs of "atherosclerosis" in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China, beset by food and drug safety scandals, has blacklisted dozens of web sites for making false claims about traditional Chinese medicine, state media said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The long-term use of two diabetes drugs, Avandia (GlaxoSmithKline) and Actos (Takeda) doubles the risk of bone fractures in women with type 2 diabetes, according to a study released on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants born to mothers who develop diabetes during pregnancy are at increased risk for metabolic changes associated with heart attacks and stroke, Chinese researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being overweight or obese may increase the likelihood of having severe headaches and migraines, new study findings suggest. An increased prevalence of headache may be associated with being underweight as well.