(HealthDay News) -- Most everyone suffers from an occasional headache. But frequent, severe headaches could be an indication of a more serious health problem.

(HealthDay News) -- A characteristic symptom of menopause is hot flashes, along with missing a menstrual period.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Young adults are more likely to be heavy drinkers if they took their first drink of alcohol at an early age and also had to cope with stressful life events, a new study suggests.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Gastric bypass patients take longer to process alcohol, which could put some at risk for overdrinking, researchers report.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Artesunate should replace quinine as the drug of choice for treating malaria, according to an updated review of clinical trial results.

TUESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- The cholera epidemic in Haiti this year will be far worse than the 400,000 cases predicted by the United Nations, new study findings indicate.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- College students are less likely to have drinking problems or engage in risky behavior if their parents monitor their social lives, researchers have found.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- The brain structure of expert phoneticians differs from that of the general public, finds a new study.

Wednesday, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure is associated with a steeper drop in the average walking speeds of seniors, a new study finds.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- The millions of Americans who lost their jobs and their health benefits during the recession often had no way to regain affordable health coverage, leaving them and their families at risk of financial ruin, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.

TUESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults would be wise to avoid chatting on cell phones while crossing the street, because new research indicates this combination more risky for that age group than for college students.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that certain heart patients will fare about the same whether they have heart bypass surgery or a less-invasive procedure that uses drug-coated stents to prop open clogged arteries.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- The death rate in the United States reached an all-time low in 2009, the 10th straight year of decline, dropping 2.3 percent from 2008, federal health officials report.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Although remnants of the tsunami that devastated the nuclear complex in Japan did manage to reach America's shores, it's highly unlikely that any radiation from the unfolding disaster across the Pacific Ocean will make it to North America, experts say.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- A lower dose of the drug cytarabine work as well as the high doses that are typically used to treat acute myeloid leukemia, and with fewer side effects, a new Dutch study finds.

(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- When nurse staffing levels fell below target levels in a large hospital, more patients died, a new study discovered.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Newly proposed national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollutants from power plants could prevent as many as 17,000 premature deaths and 11,000 heart attacks a year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- An already approved transplant-rejection drug is the first treatment to show a benefit for women with a rare lung disease that has had no cure or, until now, even a treatment.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- The injectable medication Xolair reduced asthma symptoms in inner city children with the respiratory condition, and almost eliminated seasonal peaks in asthma attacks, new research shows.