TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- White patients with lung or colorectal cancer are less willing than patients of other races or ethnicities to use up their personal financial resources to prolong their life, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Rates of physical frailty increase throughout adulthood, not just after age 65, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Antidepressants may not improve all symptoms of depression, according to a new study.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Girls are much less likely than boys to be placed on a kidney transplant waiting list, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Every time her teenage daughter Jordyn leaves the house, Nancy Geller worries about the food her daughter might choose to eat. Jordyn has a severe peanut allergy, and exposure to even a small amount of a peanut-containing food could cause a life-threatening allergic reaction.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Severely obese teens are no more likely to be depressed than their normal weight peers, new research suggests.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who are "housebound" seem to have nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Heart failure patients with low levels of "health literacy" are at increased risk of hospitalization and death, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Slowing of the brain's processing speed as people age is the prime cause of typical communication problems in older adults, new research indicates.

(HealthDay News) -- Each year, millions of passengers embark from North American ports on cruise vacations.

(HealthDay News) -- Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the United States and many European countries. The neovascular or "wet" form of the disease is responsible for 90 percent of cases of severe vision loss.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Most cases of bloodstream infections (sepsis) among newborns in the United States are caused by group B streptococci (GBS) and E. coli, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- The increased use of evidence-based treatments for heart attacks, such as clot-busting drugs and rapid angioplasty, has led to a decrease in deaths, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly three of every five children diagnosed with epilepsy do not take their antiseizure medicine as prescribed over the first six months of treatment, a new study shows.

TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- As researchers warn of a serious shortage of primary-care physicians, a new study finds the percentage of medical students who want to go into general internal medicine has dropped sharply over the past two decades.

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TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Neither vitamin E nor the diabetes medication metformin worked any better than a placebo in treating fatty liver disease in children, according to new research.