NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression, anxiety and certain other mental health conditions are more common among infertile couples than those who are able to conceive on their own, a small study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Results of a Swedish population-wide study hint that children born prematurely have some risk of developing anxiety, depression or other psychiatric disorder in adolescence and young adulthood.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Home-based rehabilitation is no worse than hospital-based programs for helping patients get better after a heart attack or surgery to clear blocked heart arteries, and may be more accessible for patients, research from the UK shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Monthly injections of an extended-release version of the alcohol dependence drug naltrexone improve quality of life for alcohol-dependent patients, a study shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diabetes can slow the brain, causing trouble with two types of mental processing in adults of all ages, Canadian researchers reported on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with bulimia may spend thousands of dollars a year on food used in binge episodes and on bingeing aids such as laxatives and diet pills, according to the first-ever study to look at the direct cost of the eating disorder to patients.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Scientists who rely on the word "drunk" and the antiquated term "high" to evaluate young people's subjective feelings of alcohol intoxication are probably missing the boat, new research shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Younger age, symptoms of depression, and severe pain during the immediate post-operative period are significant predictors of severe pain during recovery from radical prostatectomy, study findings indicate.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company went on trial on Wednesday over a tainted milk scandal that has killed at least six children and made thousands ill.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors are often reluctant to discuss a seriously ill patients' uncertain prognosis with family members, but a new study suggests that most families want doctors to address the patients' uncertain outlook openly and candidly.

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An Australian scientist is doping up honey bees with cocaine to study how their brains react to the drug, and possibly find a way to stop addiction in humans.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression and the chronic pain syndrome fibromyalgia are common in patients who suffer from chronic Lyme disease and seem to correlate with poor functional outcomes, results of a study indicate.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents of newly toilet-trained boys should take a few simple steps to keep their sons' penises safe when they go to the bathroom, a team of UK urologists advises.

TORONTO (Reuters) -- Dropping temperatures and eggnog won't create new heart problems, but cold weather and some holiday-related behaviors can exacerbate existing conditions, and deaths from heart disease hit their peak every December and January, with spikes on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, according to a University of California-San Diego study.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults with a sibling who's suffered from a mental disorder may themselves be at risk of depression, a new study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Psychiatric and neurologic disorders are common in patients with lupus, and new research confirms that problems with attention, memory, and reasoning are present even in lupus patients without overt brain manifestations of the disease.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than half of people with a rare sleep disorder develop a neurodegenerative disease, such as Parkinson's disease, within 12 years of being diagnosed, results of a Canadian study published Wednesday indicate.

LONDON (Reuters) - A slow, chronic reduction of blood sugar to the brain could trigger some forms of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A survey of popular women's magazines suggests articles tend to portray cosmetic surgery as an empowering option for improving women's emotional health and physical appearance, despite the lack of scientific consensus that cosmetic surgery boosts emotional health.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a survey of a random sample of US emergency physicians, virtually all said they believed that law enforcement officers use excessive force to arrest and detain suspects.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are the victims of domestic abuse tend to take their infants to the doctor more often than other mothers do, a new study finds.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A program for helping rural African American pre-teens avoid using alcohol not only cuts their likelihood of drinking, it also sharply reduces their chances of developing behavior problems, especially in those at highest risk, a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health indicates.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For adults who suffer from major depression, psychological interventions and drug therapy are both effective and "each has its own merits," Dutch researchers report.

LONDON (Reuters) - Young heart attack survivors with a common genetic variation were more likely to die or have a serious heart problem while taking the blood thinner Plavix than those without the genetic variation, researchers said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Results of a brain imaging study suggest that the brain may be affected very early in the course of lupus, even before the disease is diagnosed.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Boys with asthma who are exposed to higher levels of tobacco smoke at home are more likely to have behavioral problems, new research shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - UK researchers have identified a type of treatment that can help most people with eating disorders, with lasting results.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African Americans are less likely than whites to seek end-of-life hospice care -- and a new study suggests that hospice admission criteria may be partially to blame.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poor mental health before joint replacement surgery may predict less satisfaction afterward, according to a study from Canada.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 54 million U.S. residents, or about 19 percent of the population, have some sort of disability, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The Montana Meth Project's (MMP) anti-drug ads have been getting plenty of media attention and government funding. There's only one problem; they may not be reducing meth use among the state's teens, and could even be making the drug more acceptable, according to a researcher who has conducted an analysis of the project's own survey data and press releases.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A one-time set of steroid injections for pregnant women at high risk of giving birth prematurely can head off major problems for the baby, but more injections give no further benefit, Canadian researchers said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Following gestational diabetes, a type of diabetes that developments during pregnancy and usually goes away after pregnancy, treatment with metformin or intensive lifestyle interventions can prevent or delay diabetes from becoming permanent in the postpartum period, new research shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Indicators of arousal, such as elevation of the heart and respiration rates, which occur immediately after a traumatic event, are predictive of future posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Australian researchers report.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A one-time set of steroid injections for pregnant women at high risk of giving birth prematurely can head off major problems for the baby, but more injections give no further benefit, Canadian researchers said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Symptoms of depression or anxiety are a strong sign that quality of life will be poor for people who've suffered a type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, investigators in the Netherlands report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - School-based suicide screening can identify students at risk for suicide and other mental health problems not recognized by school professionals, new research suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with Parkinson's disease who also suffer from depression may find they're helped more by an older class of antidepressants than newer types of medication, a small clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The presence of mental illness, and its severity, appear to confer an increased risk of developing asthma, researchers report.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers have reproduced images of things people were looking at by analyzing brain scans, opening the way for people to communicate directly from their mind.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have reached a $750,000 settlement with a Los Angeles hospital over a life-threatening accidental overdose of their newborn twins with a blood thinner medication.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Airborne Health Inc has agreed to pay $7 million to settle investigations by 32 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia over the past marketing and labeling of its products.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Female smokers who want to kick the habit face different challenges than men, but with the right help they can be just as successful, according to experts from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having multiple generations living under one roof may take a toll on women's heart health, a large study of Japanese adults suggests.