ATLANTA – More American adults are aware they have high blood pressure, and more are taking medicine to try to control it, according to a new government report released Wednesday.

In the United States, 1 in 3 people will have Type 2 diabetes by 2050 if current trends continue, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The arteries of obese children have a degree of stiffness normally seen in adults with heart disease, according to a new study.

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Canada took home a record 14 gold medals from its own Winter Olympics this year, but health officials say the northern nation also walked away with a less-welcome souvenir:  85 cases of measles.

FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- An increasingly stubborn strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a common bacterial infection acquired in hospitals, has been identified in Ohio, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

The American Heart Association announced today new recommendations for the way CPR is performed. The small change could make a big difference in the lives of people suffering from cardiac arrest, the organization says.

DALLAS – New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth.

(CNN) -- It was 5:16 a.m. when the call came in to a 911 dispatcher in Madison, Wisconsin. The story, from Cathy Silver, came out staccato: Cathy's husband, Jim, was gagging, gasping for air. A nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, Cathy could see that her husband, the father of four grown children, was in cardiac arrest

Who hasn’t unwrapped a sandwich while driving down the highway or pulled a hard U-turn into a fast-food joint on the way home from a late meeting or soccer game? We practically live in our cars, so we need quick food, and please, we’d like it to be healthy.  

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Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives. It's the first large American study to show more adults survived cardiac arrest when a bystander gave them continuous chest presses to simulate a heartbeat, compared to traditional CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) with mouth-to-mouth breathing.

After an alarming spike in student alcohol poisoning cases, Ramapo College administrators are banning the alcoholic energy drink known as Four Loko.

THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Only one in five doctors in the United States follows all the recommended colon cancer screening guidelines, a new report finds.

THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- One in 36 Hispanic men and one in 106 Hispanic women in the United States are at risk of being diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. The overall estimated lifetime risk of HIV diagnosis among Hispanics is one in 52, according to a federal government study released Thursday.

THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new study says a push-pull training method is a good way to correct a condition called sensory eye dominance, in which an imbalance between the vision strength of the eyes impairs fine depth perception.