Medical experts have warned caregivers and family members against using elderspeak to seniors they are caring for as it makes recovery for the sick elderly more difficult.

Dr. Becca Levy, associated professor of epidemiology and psychology at Yale University, explained the problem in a study to be published at the next edition of the American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Overweight men with elevated levels of insulin are at a higher risk of developing prostate cancer than other patients, a new Canadian study says.

Researchers at Montreal-based McGill University, in collaboration with Harvard University, analyzed data from 2,546 American men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer during 24 years of follow-up

A large-scale clinical trial combining two popular lung cancer drugs Tarceva and Avastin has showed no increase in survival rates.

However, the combination treatment kept the disease from progressing for a longer period than Tarceva alone, the study found. Tarceva is marketed by Genentech and Avastin by Roche. Roche Holding AG sells both drugs in Europe

Highly contagious whooping cough has struck several students at a Kentucky elementary school.

There have been five confirmed cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, so far this week at Freedom Elementary School in Shepherdsville. Bullitt County public health officials say that between vaccines and antibiotics that the chance of the disease becoming fatal has been lessened

Patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a slower progression of the disease and breathe better when they add tiotropium (Spiriva) to their other respiratory medications, a four-year study has found.

New long-term data collected from almost 6,000 patients in 37 countries has confirmed the inhaler medication Spiriva and a similar drug, Atrovent, decreases the risk of death in COPD patients by 16 per cent over other drug combinations