Working out on a treadmill three times a week improves brain function and fitness for people who have survived a stroke up to 20 years after their diagnosis, a study has found.

Study researcher Dr. Andreas Luft, a professor of clinical neurology and neurorehabilitation at the University of Zurich, compared the brain and physical function of 37 people who had had strokes and worked on a treadmill three times a week

Children who are exposed to pet dogs, cats or other furry friends at home can develop problem snoring when they grow up, a new study has revealed. Heavy snoring has been linked to early death, heart disease and stroke, not to mention the obvious problems of sleep deprivation for the snorer and their partner.

Karl Franklin, the study's lead author and a physician at University Hospital here, analyzed sleep habits and other childhood hospitalizations of men and women aged 25 to 54 -- all residents of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Estonia -- and got responses from 15,556

For patients with coronary artery disease, supplementing with B vitamins and folic acid does not reduce the risk associated with it, a new study has found.

The new study, reported in the Aug. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed almost 3,100 volunteers. Three-quarters of them took various doses of vitamin B and folic acid (which is chemically a B vitamin), while the others got a placebo, an inactive substance

In what may be an inspiration to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-affected families, Olympic champion Michael Phelps has been found to have certain physical features that contributed to his phenomenal win of 11 career gold medals.

He was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9 for which he required daily doses of the drug Ritalin. But this did not stop him from pursuing his goals for swimming

Young women who smoke are twice as likely to have a stroke as their non-smoking counterparts, according to a new study. And the number of cigarettes a woman smokes is directly proportional to the risk.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine interviewed 466 women who had had a stroke between the ages of 15 and 49, and were either smokers, non-smokers or former smokers. A comparison group consisted of 604 women of similar age, race, and ethnicity who had not had a stroke