If both your parents have Alzheimer’s disease, you probably are more much likely than other people to get it, researchers said on Monday. Their study focused on 111 families in which both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia among the elderly, and assessed the risk for developing it among the offspring. The parents had 297 children who lived... 

WASHINGTON  - It may be possible to make a safe vaccine against the type of bacteria best known for causing “strep throat” and rheumatic fever, U.S.-based researchers reported on Thursday. The little piece of the bacteria that causes serious disease can be altered slightly into a form that may work as a vaccine, the team at the University of California, San Diego, reported. Group A streptococcal... 

The American Cancer Society and other health groups are recommending two tests they had not previously endorsed to prevent or detect , the groups said Wednesday. The new policy is based on evidence that the tests work well enough to recommend and applies to all adults 50 and older and to some younger people with symptoms or risk factors for colon cancer. One test is virtual colonoscopy, which uses... 

Drinking black tea could help prevent diabetes, according to new findings by scientists at Dundee University.The researchers said black tea may have the potential to combat type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.They believe certain constituents of tea could act as an insulin substitute. In Scotland, it is believed more than 190,000 people have diabetes which develops when the body fails...