NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most young smokers between the ages of 16 and 24 years who try to quit are not using recommended smoking cessation methods, according to a report in the current Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A gift of a tricycle, bicycle or other pedal cycle to a youngster this holiday season is not complete without a well-fitting helmet to go along with it, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remind the public in the latest issue of the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The anti-wrinkle treatment Botox may relieve stubborn cases of writer's cramp, new research suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Immature sucking patterns are often seen in infants whose mothers developed diabetes during pregnancy and had to be treated with insulin, new research indicates. On the other hand, babies of mothers with diabetes that was managed with a careful diet do not seem to have impaired sucking reflexes.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The chances of having a stroke are modestly increased in people with impaired lung function, even if they have never smoked nor had respiratory symptoms, researchers report. However, that finding only applies to whites, it seems, not to blacks.