CHICAGO (Reuters) – A test run of an “artificial pancreas” that monitors blood sugar and delivers both insulin and regulatory hormone called glucagon helped patients achieve near-normal blood sugar levels for more than 24 hours, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 40 percent of U.S. adults who have depression are also smokers, meaning people need help with both if they want to quit, according to a U.S. government survey published on Wednesday.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The H1N1 flu pandemic is as severe as influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968 and remains a threat, especially to healthy young adults, the chairman of the WHO’s Emergency Committee said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Deaths of women in and around childbirth have gone down by an average of 35 percent globally, according to a study using new methods, but are surprisingly high in the United States, Canada and Norway.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – People with a common variation in a gene linked with coronary artery disease have nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared with others, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perhaps not surprisingly, children whose mothers gained too much weight during pregnancy tend to have more body fat than those whose moms stayed within the recommended weight-gain range, a new study finds.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who cut out saturated fatty acids while upping their intake of white bread, pasta and other refined carbohydrates that can cause blood sugar to spike aren’t doing their heart any favors, new research from Denmark shows.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nebraska’s governor on Tuesday signed into law two anti-abortion measures that proponents say protects women and their viable fetuses but opponents charge are aimed at halting abortions altogether.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Widely used anticonvulsant drugs, including Pfizer’s Neurontin and Novartis’ Trileptal, may increase the risk of suicide, attempted suicide and violent death in patients taking them for the first time, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Georgia is joining a Florida-led group of states in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, Florida’s attorney general said on Tuesday.