Older women who either sleep too much or too little are at a greater risk of suffering from stroke, a new study shows. Researchers found that habitual sleep patterns in postmenopausal women could be important in determining the risk of ischemic stroke.

Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City studied 93,676 postmenopausal women and found that those who regularly slept nine hours or more were 70 percent more likely to have an ischemic stroke, compared with women who slept seven hours a night

Researchers at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that people who stop drinking may develop depression.

Findings from the study appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Scientists have long known that moderate drinking offered some health benefits, including protection against heart disease, certain types of stroke and some forms of cancer. But now they say that people that stop drinking, even moderate drinking, run the risk of developing depression and a reduced capacity of the brain to produce new neurons, a process called neurogenesis

To prevent more Americans from acquiring adult heart problems, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends more cholesterol screening for young people and earlier use of cholesterol-lowering medication.

The recommendation, issued by the academy on Monday, is expected to generate controversy since there is a question on the safety of prescribing cholesterol-lowering drugs for children and on what are the best approaches to prevent heart diseases upon reaching adulthood

A new study has linked low levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL) or the good cholesterol in middle age to the risk of memory loss that can lead to dementia later in life.

Researchers at University College London and the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (the French equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of health) conducted by Dr. Archana Singh-Manoux measured good HDL cholesterol levels of 3,673 55-year-old British civil servants and asked them to memorize 20 words as part of short-term memory test

A 5-year-old Kentucky girl with a rare disease was refused by two airlines to board a plane from Canada to China for her treatment, saying she was too sick to fly. The girl was to receive stem cell treatments for a rare fatal disease at a Beijing hospital.

After being treated at a Vancouver hospital for seizures, Miranda Goranflo and her daughter Hailey were forced to fly home to Shepherdsville, KY, when the airlines, Air China and Air Canada, decided during a layover in Vancouver, British Columbia, that she was not fit to fly for 11-hour trip