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• Gene Mutation in Mice Sheds Light on Autism

  THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research is providing more insight into a gene ...

• Texas Girl Recovers From Rabies Without Intensive Care

  THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The seemingly miraculous recovery from rabies of a 17-year-old ...

• Wii-Gaming Could Aid Stroke Rehab

  THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Recovering stroke patients whose physical therapy regimen is built ...

• Coffee Drinking May Lower Stroke Risk

  THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Regular coffee drinking appears to reduce the risk of ...

• Virtually Everyone Should Get a Flu Shot: CDC

  THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- All Americans 6 months of age and older should ...

• Naptime Helps Babies Remember New Things

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Naps play an important role in infant learning by ...

• Extended-Release Mirapex Approved for Parkinson's Disease

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Mirapex ER (pramipexole dihydrochloride extended-release) has been approved by ...

• Trouble Recognizing Faces Could Be Genetic

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- People who have trouble recognizing faces may be relieved ...

• Study Reports Progress Against Fatal Brain Cancer

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new method to prevent recurrence of deadly glioblastoma ...

• Fitness Boosts Brain Power in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise appears to protect the brains of people with ...

• Strokes Up Among the Young, Down Among the Old

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of stroke seems to be falling among ...

• Happy Marriage Cuts Men's Risk for Stroke

  WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Single or unhappily married men seem to run a ...

• Hospital Stays May Spur Brain Decline in Seniors

  TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people who have been hospitalized have an increased ...

• Tests to Measure Safety of Anti-Clotting Drugs of Limited Value

  TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Tests that try to single out who will have ...

• Dry Weather Boosts Odds of Flu Outbreaks

  TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Rain and snow may seem like perfect incubators for ...

• Hospital-Acquired Sepsis, Pneumonia a 'Growing Menace'

  TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Sepsis and pneumonia caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 ...

• Two Sepsis Treatments Look Equally Effective

  TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Two treatment methods for severe sepsis achieve similar short-term ...

• New Heart CT Scans Deliver Far Less Radiation: Study

  TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The newest heart imaging CT technology exposes patients to ...

• Gestures or Words? To the Brain, It's the Same

  MONDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Humans speak; therefore, they're special. At least that's what evolutionary ...