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Women with gestational diabetes they need to remain vigilant after a baby is born, U. S. health experts have reminded.

Closing the U. S. phytonutrient gap could help improve Americans' bone health, says a nutrition expert.

Those who fail to eat enough fruits and vegetables are likely not getting enough bone-building calcium and vitamin D as well, says Keith Randolph of Nutrilite Health Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Americans who met the recommended daily intakes of fruits and vegetables averaged 1,110 mg/day of calcium and 244 International Units/day of vitamin D, were found by Randolph and colleagues.

The spouses of dementia sufferers may be at higher risk of also developing dementia, U. S. researchers have said.

The husbands of dementia sufferers appear to be at higher risk for developing dementia themselves than the wives of dementia sufferers, researchers at Utah State University in Logan, led by Dr. Maria Norton, have found.

U. S. researchers have said that machines that use bar-code technology are more accurate than humans in dispensing medications in hospitals.

6,723 medications given to patients before a bar-code electronic medication administration record system was installed were compared to 7,318 medications given to patients after the bar-code technology was installed, by lead study author Dr. Eric G. Poon of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

U. S. researchers have suggested that post-traumatic stress disorder causes changes in immune system genes and may compromise immunity, putting people at risk of disease.

Principal investigator Dr. Sandro Galea of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and colleagues analyzed the methylation patterns, which alter the gene pattern in cells that "remember where they have been," of more than 14,000 genes from blood samples of 100 Detroit residents, 23 with PTSD.

U. S. researchers have found that the cost of treating cancer has nearly doubled in the past 18 years from more than $24 billion to some $48 billion.

Data from the 2001 to 2005 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and its predecessor the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey was analyzed by study leader Florence Tangka of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues at Emory University and RTI International.