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| AP IMPACT: Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment |
| WASHINGTON -- Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unreso... |
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| Blue Light Kills MRSA |
| Blue light -- not including dangerous UV frequencies -- kills MRSA, the multidrug-resistant staph superbug, a study shows. |
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| Infertility Treatment Controversy |
| Researchers from the International Institute of Restorative Reproductive Medicine have responded to concerns expressed by infertility specialists that patients might choose NaProTechnology , over IVF ... |
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| Dangerous low blood sugar linked to sex drugs |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Illegal anti-impotence drugs and herbs contaminated with the diabetes drug glyburide have caused some 150 cases of dangerously low blood sugar, researchers in Singapore reported on ... |
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| How Older Americans Will Fare in the Financial Meltdown |
| The column I wrote last week about the impact of the current financial meltdown on the well-being of older Americans called for a major initiative to provide jobs for those in the "Grand Generation" t... |
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| Latest News in Health & Fitness |
| Breast Cancer During Pregnancy Diagnosed Late |
| A study shows that breast cancer that occurs during pregnancy or within one year after pregnancy is usually diagnosed late, previously associated with poorer outcomes. |
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| Even moderate exercise helps breast cancer recovery |
| Australian researchers have found that exercise can offer benefits to women recovering from breast cancer treatment. |
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| Study says pregnancy doesn't worsen breast cancer |
| Pregnant women who develop breast cancer do not have worse odds of death or of cancer returning than other young breast cancer patients, a new study has found.The study is one of the largest to look a... |
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| Diagnostic procedure will help doctors better target breast cancer treatments |
| A test to identify the complex differences in breast tumors could be available later this year to help doctors better understand how to treat their patients, researchers at Washington University in St... |
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| Halting hormones cuts risk |
| Studies repeatedly have linked long-term use of postmenopausal hormones to an increased risk of breast cancer, but new research suggests that the risk falls markedly within two years of quitting treat... |
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| Helping patients make wiser health choices |
| It's one of medicine's uncomfortable truths: That blood test for prostate cancer is far from perfect. |
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| NYU Langone Medical Center researchers find micro RNA plays a key role in melanoma metastasis |
| Scientists have long wondered how melanoma cells travel from primary tumors on the surface of the skin to the brain, liver and lungs, where they become more aggressive, resistant to therapy, and deadl... |
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| Women's Risk For Breast Cancer Declines Quickly After Stopping HRT, Study Finds |
| Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Menopause ; Endocrinology Article Date: 06 Feb 2009 - 4:00 PST A woman's risk for breast cancer declines within about two years after ending hormone repl... |
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| Cancer may bring out just the wrong words |
| Like many people with cancer, Bethany Winsor found that some of her friends struggled with what to say after she was diagnosed. |
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| EntreMed Presents Initial Clinical Results for ENMD-2076 |
| EntreMed, Inc. , a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases, today announced recent developments in its program for ENMD-2076... |
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| Genomic Test Personalizes Breast Cancer Treatment |
| A set of 50 genes can be used to reliably identify the four known types of breast cancer, according to research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. |
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| Health Canada Approves Avastin in Combination with Paclitaxel for... |
| Avastin is now approved to treat the two most prevalent cancers in Canada: Breast and Colorectal Cancer TORONTO, Feb. |
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| New test will help docs choose chemo for breast cancer patients |
| A new breast cancer test from the Huntsman Cancer Institute has Utah County experts optimistic they'll get a better idea of when to give patients chemotherapy. |
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| Pregnancy Has No Impact On Breast Cancer Survival, Delays Treatment, Diagnosis, Study Finds |
| However, the largest single-institution study to look at pregnant breast cancer patients finds that women with Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer , are more likely to be diagnosed later with advanced ... |
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| Bone drugs may fight breast cancer, study finds |
| A drug of a class commonly used to combat bone loss may reduce by a third the chance that some breast cancers will spread or recur, a large study has found. |
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| Crow's friends helped battle cancer |
| Sheryl Crow has spoken of how friends helped her through her cancer battle. The singer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and had to undergo surgery as part of treatment. |
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| Drug Useful In Some Early Breast Cancers |
| Austrian scientists say they've found the drug Zometa is effective in reducing the risk of early breast cancer re-occurrence or death in premenopausal women. |
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| Lebanon firm makes cancer-screening agent |
| Woomera Therapeutics Inc. has entered a strategic partnership with a West Coast company to produce an antibody for clinical trial for use in detection and treatment of breast and small-cell lung cance... |
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| Pregnancy Does Not Increase Risk Of Breast Cancer Recurrence, Death, Study Says |
| Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Article Date: 11 Feb 2009 - 4:00 PST Pregnant women who develop breast cancer have the same risks as other young breast cancer pat... |
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| Octuplets' Mom Said to be "Obsessed" With Having Children |
| The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in-vitro fertilization, is not married, and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, he... |
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| Pediatric Hodgkin's disease survivors face increased breast cancer risk |
| Women who as children got radiation treatment for Hodgkin's disease are almost 40 times more likely than others to develop breast cancer, according to findings from five institutions, including the Un... |
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| Aetna Health Settles With Mass. Attorney General Over Infertility TreatmentsLoading... |
| A.M. Best Company, Inc. Source: BestWire Services Wordcount: 308 The Massachusetts attorney general's office said it reached a settlement with Aetna Health Inc. |
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| Common Household Products May Cause Infertility, Pregnancy Delay |
| Women who experience delays in getting pregnant, infertility problems, or irregular menses may be experiencing the effects of a substance found in commonly used household products. |
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| Editorial: Mother of six didn't need fertility treatments to give her eight more |
| Some 4.1 million babies will be born in the United States this year. Whatever the actual total, it'll be eight more than it should have been. |
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| Family to be blessed with a child after 20 years |
| The Shahs are over the moon and waiting for their bundle of joy. After six years of desperately trying to conceive, Andheri residents Manish Shah and wife Vaishali are proud parents-to-be. "It's the b... |
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| Possible Link Between Household Chemicals And Infertility |
| Researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health have found the first evidence that perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs - chemicals that are widely used in everyday items such as food packaging, pesticid... |
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| And It Gets Worse... |
| The whole online community recognized it at once. Many organizations came out with a formal statement. |
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| Commentary: Are 8 babies enough? |
| Editor's note: Dr. Thomas H. Murray is chief executive of The Hastings Center, a nonprofit research institute on bioethics in Garrison, New York. |
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| Infertility and Health Insurance - " Where to Start? |
| "There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it" Infertility and Health Insurance a ' Where to Start? Know what treatments and drugs are covered and to what extent. |
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| Infertility treatment plain nutes |
| Maybe we owe an apology to the doctors who made the birth announcement with such pride and excitement. |
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| More to the Story..... |
| Everyone has read the story or seen parts on the news, of the woman who had 8 children all at once. |
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| Research and Markets: Stakeholder Insight: Infertility -... |
| Research and Markets: Stakeholder Insight: Infertility - Undifferentiated Drugs Force Need to Strengthen Prescriber and Payer Relationship © Business Wire 2009 2009-02-06 14:51:03 - Research and ... |
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| Cutting edge issues in infertility |
| How did she do it? And how could any responsible fertility doctor let it happen? To help sort through some of the ethical questions, we'll be joined next week by Colleen Casey, a reproductive endocrin... |
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| Fertility Drugs Not Associated With Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer, Study Says |
| Main Category: Fertility Also Included In: Ovarian Cancer ; Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 09 Feb 2009 - 1:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article Fertility drugs do not ... |
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| Help for TT's childless couples |
| Dr Catherine Minto-Bain, gynaecologist and medical director of the IVF Centre at Medical Associates.... ACCORDING to international statistics, one of every six couples experiences difficulty achieving... |
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| Household Chemicals May Be Linked To Infertility |
| Researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health have found the first evidence that perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs a ' chemicals that are widely used in everyday items such as food packaging, pestic... |
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| Infertility Specialists: Octuplet Case 'Far-Out' |
| When does life begin? What can and should be done to relieve the suffering of couples carrying the burden of infertility? Who should pay for that care? Is in vitro fertilization ethical? In the field ... |
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| Infertility Treatment Controversy |
| Researchers from the International Institute of Restorative Reproductive Medicine have responded to concerns expressed by infertility specialists that patients might choose NaProTechnology , over IVF ... |
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| Opinion Pieces Examine Ethical Issues Related To Birth Of Octuplets |
| Main Category: Fertility Also Included In: Pregnancy / Obstetrics ; Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 10 Feb 2009 - 5:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article Two newspapers ... |
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| Insulin Error Leaves Hundreds At Risk For Blood-Borne Illness |
| Army medical officials have spoken with nearly 300 patients who are at risk of developing blood-borne illnesses because insulin injections were improperly administered at a West Texas military hospita... |
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| Current Photos - Mold Infested Jefferson Lakes Apt.- Approved for Leasing by Riverstone & LHFA |
| An anonymous tenant sent these photos of mold growth on the inside of the windows of these extremely infested apartments. Mold has been growing in the HAVC system, walls, etc. for years. Since mold ... |
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| Grandma's moistening kettle may have held off flu |
| Grandma may have been right about keeping a teakettle warming on the stove in winter to moisten the air. Studies of seasonal influenza have long found indications that flu spreads better in dry air. N... |
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| Katrina flood homes still dangerous - study conducted at LSU |
| A study conducted at the Louisiana State University (LSU) reveals that those homes which were flooded in the Hurricane Katrina disaster may contain dangerous levels of contaminants, including toxins ... |
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| Learn to live heart healthy |
| Getting your blood pressure checked is just a start to making good choices for your heart. |
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| Study: Pregnancy doesn't worsen breast cancer |
| Pregnant women who develop breast cancer do not have worse odds of death or of cancer returning than other young breast cancer patients, a new study has found. |
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| Eluana Englaro Case Divides Italian Government |
| Italy's Parliament may pass a bill that would require doctors to resume feeding Englaro, a woman in a vegetative state who is at the center of a contentious right-to-die case. |
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| Eluana Englaro Dies, Ending Saga that Divided Italy |
| Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old Italian woman in a vegetative state, died Monday days after her feeding tube was removed, ending a contentious right-to-die case. |
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| Home of Marlboro man mulls smoking restrictions |
| In a sign of how vilified smoking has become, lawmakers in Virginia - where the world's largest cigarette factory churns out Marlboros - passed curbs on smoking in restaurants Monday. |
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| Lawsuit claims ex-Jay Alomar has AIDS |
| Former Blue Jay Roberto Alomar faces a lawsuit claiming he had unprotected sex while HIV-positive. Roberto Alomar has full-blown AIDS, according to lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend yesterday who als... |
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| Newspaper Accuses MMR--Autism Doctor of Falsifying Data |
| The Times of London has reported allegations that Andrew Wakefield submitted false information for his landmark 1998 study linking vaccines to autism. |
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| Black Mold Exposure Documentary Trailer |
| black mold exposure movie trailer For more information - blackmoldexposuremovie.com katy's exposure |
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| Could Carbon Dioxide Replace Antibiotics In Surgery? |
| Written by Mikael Persson and Jan van der Linden from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, the article "Intraoperative CO2 insufflation can decrease the risk of surgical site infection" was judged to b... |
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| Dangerous Printer Particles Identified |
| Professor Lidia Morawska from QUT's International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health led the study which aimed to answer questions raised by earlier findings that almost one third of popular laser ... |
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| FDA Steps Up Efforts to Control Painkiller Use |
| The FDA is launching a campaign against unsafe use of certain narcotics, pointing to a growing misuse of painkillers over the past decade. |
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| Report Shows Women in Abusive Relationships Most at Risk When Breaking Up |
| Breakups with an abusive partner are an especially dangerous time for domestic violence victims, according to a new report. |
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| Why Sleep Is Needed To Form Memories |
| And now, scientists are beginning to understand why. In research published recently in Neuron , Marcos Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medi... |
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| Antidepressants Comparison: What are The Similarities and Differences? |
| Some good points on how to find faster-acting and more effective treatment for depression. |
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| Arginine Discovery Could Help Fight Obesity |
| "Given the current epidemic of obesity in the U.S. and worldwide, our finding is very important," said Dr. |
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| First trial dates for FEMA trailer suits |
| NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge has scheduled the first four trials for a batch of lawsuits filed on behalf of hurricane victims who claim they were exposed to potentially toxic fumes while living ... |
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| The 6 Worst Diet Fads |
| We take a look at this year's crop of trendy and potentially counterproductive weight-loss plans.
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| America's Long Love Affair with Anti-Anxiety Drugs |
| The story of America's long infatuation with anti-anxiety drugs.
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| Health Matters: Surviving Tennis Elbow |
| I once ignored the moans and groans of people in pain; now people ignore my own moans and groans.
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| More Turmoil Over Vaccines and Autism |
| A top exec quits a major autism group because she doesn't think vaccines cause the disorder.
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| SketchUp: Why Kids With Autism Love It |
| A program created for architects is an unexpected hit with children on the spectrum.
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| What a Comedy About Sleepwalking Can Teach Us |
| A funny one-man show about the perils of sleepwalking becomes an off-Broadway hit and inspires some serious talk about sleep disorders.
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| Why Can't the World Eradicate Polio? |
| Bill Gates is bent on eradicating the disease, but the war isn't going well.
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| Can Hollywood Get Mental Illness Portrayals Right? |
| Does Showtime's provocative new series "Tara" signal an evolution in how Hollywood portrays mental illness?or is it another sensational depiction of a serious condition?
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| Four More Reasons to Drink Red Wine |
| The heart-healthy beverage may also keep you from developing physical disabilities or Alzheimer's Disease.
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| New Fertility Campaign Targets Younger Women |
| A slick new promotional campaign reminds women in their 20s and 30s that their biological clocks are ticking.
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| Ornish: How to Live Longer and Better |
| Love and joy are the real secrets to healthy living.
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| Pro-Lifers Split Over Abortion Reduction Tactics |
| Now that the political climate has changed, will those dedicated to eradicating abortion embrace abortion-reduction strategies instead?
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| Factors Affecting Age of Puberty in Girls |
| Scientists take a closer look at the complex biological and social factors that influence the age of puberty in girls.
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| Health Matters: Making Medical Decisions for Kids |
| Recently, a friend sent me a 2006 clip from "The Oprah Winfrey Show" featuring a room of fussy newborns and a woman who claimed she could translate their cries. I'm a skeptic by nature, but around Mar... |
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| How Photographers Help Parents of Stillborn Babies |
| A unique volunteer group helps parents preserve precious images of babies that are stillborn or expected to die soon after birth.
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| New Procedure May Aid Transplant Patients |
| An experimental new treatment may offer hope for transplant patients suffering under the toxic and sometimes lethal side effects of anti-rejection drugs.
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| Quindlen: RU-486 Keeps Abortion Private |
| American women have found a new way to keep abortion a personal and private responsibility. It comes with a glass of water.
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| Stillbirths: How a New Openness Helps Parents Cope |
| Each year thousands of families experience stillbirth. As science seeks causes, parents use photography to honor their babies and cope with their grief.
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| Experts Slam Oprah and Somers' Take on Menopause |
| Why medical experts were shocked by Oprah Winfrey's take on hormone replacement and Suzanne Somers's controversial theories on aging.
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| Why We Need More Time in the Natural World |
| A look at our primal connection to the natural world and the surprising psychological consequences of not getting enough time in the great outdoors.
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| Blood Test May Predict Postpartum Depression |
| Title: Blood Test May Predict Postpartum DepressionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/3/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/3/2009 |
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| Preeclampsia in Pregnancy Boosts Future Health Risks |
| Title: Preeclampsia in Pregnancy Boosts Future Health RisksCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/31/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/2/2009 |
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| tetracycline, Sumycin |
| Title: tetracycline, SumycinCategory: MedicationsCreated: 3/26/1998 2:30:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 12/19/2008 |
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| Barrier Methods of Birth Control |
| Title: Barrier Methods of Birth ControlCategory: Procedures and TestsCreated: 7/28/2006Last Editorial Review: 2/5/2009 |
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| Prenatal Vitamins, Iron Recalled |
| Title: Prenatal Vitamins, Iron RecalledCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/5/2009Last Editorial Review: 2/5/2009 |
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| Smoking-Low Birth Weight Link Explained in Part |
| Title: Smoking-Low Birth Weight Link Explained in PartCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/3/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/3/2009 |
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| Vitamin D Deficit May Trigger MS Risk Gene |
| Title: Vitamin D Deficit May Trigger MS Risk GeneCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/6/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/6/2009 |
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| If Obama Grows Old Before His Time, Stressed-Out Cell Tips Might Be to Blame |
| Focused though the world is on the youthful athleticism of the 47-year-old who will take the oath of office tomorrow, it's tempting to ask what impact his new job will have on President-elect Barack O... |
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| Va. Proposal Puts Mental Health Safety Net for Children on Chopping Block |
| First in a series of reports that explores the impact of budget cuts being contemplated by elected officials in Maryland and Virginia this session.
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| Hundreds Visit Medical Tents Seeking Care for Cold Feet and Worse |
| Marshall Anderson, park ranger and paramedic, arrived at his first aid tent northeast of the Washington Monument at 5:30 a.m. yesterday. His first patient arrived at 5:31.
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| Looking for a Game, Mr. President? Jog Right Over to the Y. |
| I'm not holding my breath for an invitation to a pickup game with America's Best Basketball Administration. But on the assumption that basketball is about to become the new golf -- and that the rest o... |
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| Low-Cost Strategies to Maintain Health in Hard Times |
| MONDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Everyone needs to make sacrifices during hard economic times, but you don't have to shortchange your health.
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| Owning Up to The Smoking Gum |
| Chew 'em if you got 'em, Mr. Obama. Everybody wants to guilt-trip the president-elect for smoking cigarettes, but nobody so far has tried to shame him off Nicorette gum. For this I am grateful: Somebo... |
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| Salmonella Found in Crackers |
| MILWAUKEE, Jan. 19 -- Kellogg said Monday that federal authorities have confirmed that salmonella was found in a single package of its peanut butter crackers, as a Midwestern grocer recalled some of i... |
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| $635 Million Is Donated to Fight Polio |
| The global effort to eradicate polio, which began more than two decades ago and has suffered repeated setbacks, will receive an additional $635 million in an effort to finish the job over the next fiv... |
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| A First: Researchers Say They Have Linked Cleaner Air to Longer Life |
| Reducing air pollution has extended average life expectancy by five months for urban residents in dozens of U.S. cities over the past two decades, researchers found.
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| My Husband Died Suddenly, but He's Still Helping Others Live Better |
| The call came at 3 a.m. last Jan. 20, shortly after we'd gotten home from the hospital.
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| Techies Respond to Artist's Quest for a Bionic Eye |
| You used to need hubris, millions of dollars and the support of a great research university to imagine building a replacement for the human eye.
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| U.S. Broadens List of Peanut Foods to Avoid |
| The federal government is advising consumers to avoid cookies, cakes, ice cream and crackers made with peanut butter or peanut paste while it continues to investigate an outbreak of salmonella illness... |
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| Five Times the Fears |
| There are days when life for Adwai Malual looks like an endless wheel. Already she has lived through much: growing up in Sudan as war tore apart her homeland, discovering in the midst of it that she w... |
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| China Sentences Two to Death for Roles in Milk Scandal; Sanlu Official Gets Life |
| BEIJING, Jan. 22 -- A court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for their roles in a deadly contaminated-milk scandal that embarrassed the Chinese government and prompted hundreds of families to su... |
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| Government Approves Study Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
| A California biotechnology company plans to launch the first government-approved clinical trial testing human embryonic stem cells on people by next summer after receiving federal approval yesterday.
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| Infections May Indicate Deadly Bug's Comeback |
| Federal health officials are concerned that a recent uptick in so-called Hib infections in Minnesota infants may signal a comeback of the deadly bacterium as a consequence of a vaccine shortage and th... |
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| Troubled Hospital in Southeast Improves, Regains Accreditation |
| After a near-death experience, months of intensive care and an extreme makeover, the District's most woebegone hospital, United Medical Center, formerly known as Greater Southeast Community Hospital, ... |
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| A Premium Sucker Punch |
| Donna Carter hoped that her savings from lower gas prices would defray rising health insurance costs.
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| Database Helps Assess Your Breast Cancer Risk |
| SUNDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to learn more about the key risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, pollutants or smoking, a database can guide you to the available evidence t... |
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| Funding Restored to Groups That Perform Abortions, Other Care |
| President Obama yesterday lifted a ban on U.S. funding for international health groups that perform abortions, promote legalizing the procedure or provide counseling about terminating pregnancies.
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| Infant Deaths Blamed on Suffocation in Bed Up Sharply in U.S., Analysis Finds |
| Infant deaths blamed on accidental strangulation and suffocation in bed have increased sharply in the United States, federal health officials are reporting today, reigniting a heated debate over the r... |
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| Oh-So-Cold Temperatures Plague Older People |
| SUNDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Hypothermia, frostbite, and falls are among the winter-related dangers faced by older adults, warns the American Geriatrics Society's Foundation for Health in Aging... |
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| Financial Crisis Poses Problems and Opportunities for Older People |
| My friend and I sit on the sofa and catch up after the holidays. We are two healthy, 60-something women; we talk about our children and grandchildren, we share our dreams. And then I say: "I think mor... |
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| Researcher Develops Device That Helps the Blind See |
| The small degree of vision that diabetes-induced hemorrhaging in her eyes had left her with vanished because of injuries in an auto accident, says Elizabeth Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center f... |
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| The Checkup: Why Men Make Better Dieters |
| Why Men Make Better Dieters Why do women seem to have a much harder time sticking to their diets than men do? A new study provides a provocative clue: Women's brains appear to have more of a mind of t... |
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| Tiny Particles Take Aim at Cancer Tumors |
| With the help of particles too small to be seen, cancer research may be taking giant leaps.
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| When the Gym Is Totally Yours, There's No One Hogging the Gear |
| No word on Punxsutawney Phil's plans for next week. There is, however, a strong chance the famous groundhog will poke his head out of his burrow, decide it's still winter and go back to bed, much like... |
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| Winter Is the Wrong Time to Overlook Fruit's Frozen Assets |
| For folks living in the mid-Atlantic region, a banana's a banana any time of year. It looks and tastes about the same -- and offers the same package of nutrients -- whether you peel it in May or Decem... |
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| A Silver Spring ER Aims to Serve Older Patients |
| When Barbara Rayner, 78, came to the emergency room at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring last month with severe lower back pain, she was expecting a long wait and harried staff. But within minutes ... |
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| Brain Fitness Classes Keep Seniors Mentally And Socially Active |
| On Monday mornings, Lynne Rosenblum puts on her thinking cap. Then the recently retired Treasury Department employee drives to the Walter Reed Senior Center in Arlington for her aerobics class.
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| Lead Probe Sought In D.C. |
| D.C. Council members asked the city's inspector general yesterday to investigate whether public health agencies and the water utility "negligently or intentionally" misled the public during the Distri... |
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| Living With Crohn's Disease: After Ups and Downs, Surgery Might Work |
| An occasional feature in which readers write about living with chronic illness.
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| Two Aging Athletes Confront the Ultimate Opponent: Time |
| I quit. After 25 years of running, I quit. I simply couldn't take it anymore. Oh, that's not "I quit" as in "I'll never run again." It's "I quit" in the simple past: I ran a route that I was unable to... |
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| Every Peanut Product From Ga. Plant Recalled |
| In one of the largest food recalls in history, the Food and Drug Administration asked retailers, manufacturers and consumers yesterday to throw out every product made in the past two years from peanut... |
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| In Dangerous Locales, HIV Discrimination Isn't an Open-and-Shut Case |
| Should an employer be required to hire an applicant who has HIV for work that could become bloody in a place where there is poor medical care?
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| Peanut Processor Ignored Salmonella Tests, Knowingly Sold Tainted Products |
| The Georgia peanut plant linked to a salmonella outbreak that has killed eight people and sickened 500 more across the country knowingly shipped out contaminated peanut butter 12 times in the past two... |
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| Relief Denied For Life Insurers |
| A national panel of insurance regulators yesterday voted down a plan that would have propped up life insurers by allowing them to operate with thinner financial cushions.
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| Senate Likely to Pass Bill on Kids' Health Insurance |
| The Senate is expected to approve a bill today that provides health insurance to about 11 million low-income children, paving the way for President Obama to claim an early legislative victory and coll... |
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| FDA panel recommends ban on the painkiller Darvon |
| WASHINGTON -- Government medical advisers Friday recommended a ban on Darvon, a prescription medicine that's been used to treat pain for more than 50 years but left a trail of problems such as addicti... |
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| Inova Not Giving Up Fight Against Plan for Competing Hospital |
| To call Inova Health System's campaign against plans for a competing hospital in Loudoun County aggressive -- or even fierce, as some political leaders have -- seems somewhat of an understatement.
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| Senate Passes Health Insurance Bill for Children |
| The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation yesterday to provide health insurance to 11 million low-income children, a bill that would for the first time spend federal money to cover children and p... |
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| Congress to hold hearing on peanut butter recall |
| WASHINGTON -- A congressman has announced the first public hearing on the salmonella outbreak that's being blamed on tainted peanut butter.
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| FDA Investigating Peanut Company Behind Recall |
| The federal government has begun a criminal investigation of the peanut company responsible for an outbreak of salmonella illness that has sickened hundreds of people, killed at least eight and prompt... |
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| Sick House, Suffering Family |
| The migraines began three months after Wendy Meng moved into her new Loudoun County house. They lasted for hours, forcing her to sleep in her closet because she was so sensitive to light. Then her hea... |
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| Suits Saying Pfizer Experimented on Nigerian Children Are Revived |
| A federal appeals court on Friday revived two lawsuits brought against Pfizer by Nigerian families who say the giant drugmaker used their children in an illegal test of an experimental antibiotic.
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| Weight of Combat Gear Is Taking Toll |
| Carrying heavy combat loads is taking a quiet but serious toll on troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, contributing to injuries that are sidelining them in growing numbers, according to senior mil... |
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| Daschle's Woes Test An Insider's Insider |
| As he battles this week to save his nomination to be secretary of health and human services, one thing is certain: No one in Washington has a better-positioned network of allies in the Obama administr... |
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| Flu Season Is Off to Slow Start, But for Va. |
| Virginia is the first state in the nation to report a widespread outbreak of the flu, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the chronic winter illness might spread rapidly af... |
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| Md. EMS Is Pressed To Share Triage Study |
| As Maryland lawmakers wrestle with the future of the state's emergency medical service following the fatal crash of a state helicopter taking accident victims to a hospital, a private company has come... |
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| Seeking Help for Autistic Kids |
| Gareth Oldham does not look like a child at the center of a growing debate over a childhood disease.
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| Study Can't Pinpoint Extent of Lead Exposure |
| Scientists say they might never know how many children were harmed when lead levels in the District's water spiked early this decade. The number could be as few as 700 or as many as tens of thousands.... |
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| Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: An Organic Diet for a Family of 10? Yes, She Can. |
| You'd think that the mother of eight children -- 8-year-old twins and 4-year-old sextuplets -- would be too busy to worry about whether the food she puts on the table every day is organic.
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| How Older Americans Will Fare in the Financial Meltdown |
| The column I wrote last week about the impact of the current financial meltdown on the well-being of older Americans called for a major initiative to provide jobs for those in the "Grand Generation" t... |
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| Medical Mysteries: A Headache That Didn't Go Away |
| Valerie Novak fervently wished doctors would stop telling her the intense headache she'd endured for several weeks was a migraine. For one thing, neither the Georgetown University senior nor her close... |
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| You Don't Need to Spend a Lot to Stretch Your Fitness Dollar |
| I haven't seen it documented yet, but you can be certain that with unemployment rising, incomes stagnant and a brooding sense of uncertainty about what is ahead for the economy, gym memberships and pe... |
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| Administration Is Described as Being at a Loss |
| Long before the Senate had a chance to consider his nomination to be secretary of health and human services, Thomas A. Daschle was hard at work pressing President Obama's signature domestic policy goa... |
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| Inova Competitor Loses Battle to Build Hospital |
| The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to reject a proposal by HCA Virginia to build a hospital in Loudoun, capping more than five years of fierce debate over how best to meet the ris... |
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| Obama Faults FDA on Food Safety |
| President Obama had critical words for the Food and Drug Administration yesterday in the midst of a massive recall of peanut products linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness that has kil... |
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| People Who Have Lost Jobs Find Getting Health Care Is Something of a Lottery |
| People young and old crowd the hallway outside the locked door of the Arlington Free Clinic. They grip small pieces of paper that will determine whether they get in -- or give up and go home.
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| Smartphone Applications Include Health-Care and Fitness Options |
| It was a hot, air-conditioner-worthy day last summer when Chester Marl came home from the hospital. The newborn slept remarkably well through the night.
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| Birth of Octuplets Stirs Ethical Concerns |
| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 -- Public opinion seems to be cresting against her, her own mother is rattled, and now fertility experts are suggesting the case of Nadya Suleman and her octuplets constitutes a br... |
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| Book Accuses French Minister, Humanitarian of Impropriety |
| PARIS, Feb. 4 -- Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, a media-savvy human rights campaigner and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, has regularly been cited in opinion polls as the most popular polit... |
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| Hearing Addresses Rise in Fatal Medical Helicopter Crashes |
| The National Transportation Safety Board began a four-day hearing in Washington yesterday to examine a spike last year in fatal crashes of medical helicopters, including one in Maryland that killed fo... |
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| Md. surgeons remove donated kidney through vagina |
| BALTIMORE -- Surgeons removed a woman's kidney through her vagina so she could give it to her ailing niece, an unusual operation they hope will encourage others to donate because it reduces pain, scar... |
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| Obama signs bill extending kids' health insurance |
| WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed a bill Wednesday extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a much-needed win a day after he lost his nominee to lead his drive for sweeping... |
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| Old Ways Doomed New Job for Daschle |
| A classic rule of Washington's political culture -- that public service can lead to personal riches -- seemed to collide yesterday with the presidential promise that the time has come for a break with... |
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| Ginsburg Undergoes Surgery For Cancer |
| U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery yesterday in New York for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease.
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| In colon cancer drug study, more wasn't better |
| NEW YORK -- Doctors thought that combining two newer drugs that more precisely attack cancer would help people with advanced colon cancer. Instead, it made the cancer worse and made the patients more ... |
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| Obama Plan Aims to Appease Both Sides of Abortion Issue |
| President Obama is trying to blunt the edge of perhaps the sharpest, most divisive wedge issue in the country: abortion.
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| Obama Signs S-Chip Legislation |
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| Suspect Peanuts Sent to Schools |
| Peanut Corporation of America sold 32 truckloads of roasted peanuts and peanut butter to the federal government for a free-lunch program for poor children even as the company's internal tests showed t... |
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| 1st US case of Marburg fever confirmed in Colo. |
| WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- The first U.S. case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has been confirmed in Colorado, and authorities say the patient _ who contracted the rare illness while traveling in Uganda _ has... |
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| Drug Made In Milk of Altered Goats Is Approved |
| Federal officials yesterday approved for the first time the sale of a drug made in animals genetically modified to secrete the compound in their milk.
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| Fitness Revolution in Motion |
| As they try to get children off their couches and onto their feet, schools and gyms in the Washington region and across the country are harnessing some of the same technology often blamed for making t... |
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| Nigerians Collect Teething Formula Laced With Poison |
| LAGOS, Nigeria, Feb. 6 -- Nigerian health workers hunted down bottles of a poisonous teething formula Friday as the government reported that 84 infants and children have died after swallowing a syrup ... |
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| Nursing Homes Face Reductions In Services |
| One in a series of reports exploring the impact of budget cuts being contemplated by elected officials in Maryland and Virginia.
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| AP IMPACT: Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment |
| WASHINGTON -- Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unreso... |
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| California Medical Board probes octuplet birth |
| LOS ANGELES -- The fertility doctor who helped a California woman have 14 children, including octuplets born last month, is now facing a state investigation on top of harsh criticism from medical ethi... |
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| Cigarettes' Cost in Dollars and Lives |
| SUFFOLK, Va. -- Second of two reports examining the impact of tobacco on Virginia
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| In Vitro Fertilization Offers New Lab for Studies |
| In addition to helping thousands of infertile couples have children, "test tube" babies are offering scientists a novel laboratory for resolving one of the most vexing debates in science: nature vs. n... |
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| A Free Opportunity to Give Your Body and Your Brain a Boost |
| Tom Acklin is a physician whose favorite prescription isn't found in any pharmacy; it's in you. To be, as Acklin calls it, "an agent in your own well-being" isn't as easy as taking a few pills, but he... |
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| Drugs Are Found to Block HIV In Monkeys |
| AIDS researchers who were gathered in Montreal yesterday heard encouraging results from studies of three strategies for preventing HIV infection using pharmaceuticals, particularly in women.
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| Falling in Love Again: It's Never Too Late |
| The symptoms are familiar: the pull in the stomach, the tingling in the arms and lips, the fluttering in the lungs. To meet, to touch, to hold! The obsessive longing -- the wild bouts of fantasy! Will... |
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| Peanut Company at Center of Outbreak Shuts Its Texas Plant After Salmonella Is Found |
| A second peanut-processing plant owned by the company at the heart of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella-related illness has been shut down after Texas authorities discovered the bacteria in products... |
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| Roses Are Red, and So Are Lots of Foods Good for You and Your Valentine |
| A box of Valentine's Day candy may make your sweetie smile, but it won't contribute to your beloved's health and well-being. And please spare me the line about chocolate's being good for your cardiova... |
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| A Skeptic Becomes A True Believer |
| I was skeptical when my hospital embarked several years ago on an initiative to reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections in our intensive care unit.
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| Md., Va. Aim Bills At Young Drivers |
| RICHMOND, Feb. 10 -- Maryland teenagers might have to wait longer before getting a driver's license, while those in Virginia could be asked to pocket their cellphones, as proposed safety measures in t... |
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| Sharing The Pain |
| It is possible, Arturo Porzecanski will tell you, to feel very lonely even when there are people all around you.
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| Sobering results for cost-cutting Medicare project |
| CHICAGO -- An ambitious effort to cut costs and keep aging, sick Medicare patients out of the hospital mostly didn't work, a government-contracted study found. The disappointing results show how tough... |
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This Valentine's Day, consider . . . MARRIAGE |
| MARRIAGE (Matrimony, wedlock) BRIEF SUMMARY OF PRESCRIPTION INFORMATION No advertisement can provide all the information needed to determine if marriage is right for you. INDICATIONS AND USAGE: Mar... |
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| Water Assessment Is Murky |
| The general manager of the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority told council members yesterday that he would allow a child to drink the city's tap water despite a recent independent study that linked the Di... |
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| Autism Coverage Bill Fails |
| RICHMOND, Feb. 11 -- The Senate has effectively killed a bill that would have required insurers to cover autistic children, pleasing business lobbies that argued against new mandates but enraging par... |
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| Court Rules Autism Not Caused by Childhood Vaccines |
| Thousands of parents who claimed that childhood vaccines had caused their children to develop autism are wrong and not entitled to federal compensation, a special court ruled today in three decisions ... |
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| Health Clinic In Nanjemoy Is at Risk Of Folding |
| The public health clinic at the Nanjemoy Community Center, which serves many of Charles County's most impoverished residents, will close within a few months unless the center can find sufficient fundi... |
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| Breastfeeding Helps Moms Lose Weight |
| Title: Breastfeeding Helps Moms Lose WeightCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/8/2008Last Editorial Review: 12/8/2008 |
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| Canola Oil Consumed During Pregnancy Lowers Breast Cancer Risk for Offspring |
| Title: Canola Oil Consumed During Pregnancy Lowers Breast Cancer Risk for OffspringCategory: Health NewsCreated: 11/19/2008 8:53:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 11/19/2008 |
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| Cutting Health Care Costs: Children's Care |
| Title: Cutting Health Care Costs: Children's CareCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/12/2008Last Editorial Review: 12/12/2008 |
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| Early Life Peanut Consumption Might Prevent Allergy |
| Title: Early Life Peanut Consumption Might Prevent AllergyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 11/15/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 11/17/2008 |
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| Mercury Poisoning |
| Title: Mercury PoisoningCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/18/2008Last Editorial Review: 12/18/2008 |
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| HIV Drug a Double-Edged Sword for Infants |
| Title: HIV Drug a Double-Edged Sword for InfantsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/19/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/20/2009 |
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| Moms Who Breast-Feed Less Likely to Neglect Child |
| Title: Moms Who Breast-Feed Less Likely to Neglect ChildCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/27/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/27/2009 |
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| Omega-3 Fatty Acid May Help 'Preemie' Girls' Brains |
| Title: Omega-3 Fatty Acid May Help 'Preemie' Girls' BrainsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/14/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/14/2009 |
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| Salmonella Factoids |
| Title: Salmonella FactoidsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/22/2009Last Editorial Review: 1/22/2009 |
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| Salmonella Outbreak Hits 42 States |
| Title: Salmonella Outbreak Hits 42 StatesCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/8/2009Last Editorial Review: 1/8/2009 |
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| Adult Fast-Food Diets Tied to Too Much TV as Teen |
| Title: Adult Fast-Food Diets Tied to Too Much TV as TeenCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/31/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/2/2009 |
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| Diabetes Keeps Rising Among U.S. Adults |
| Title: Diabetes Keeps Rising Among U.S. AdultsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/29/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/29/2009 |
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| Health Tip: Be Wary of Fad Diets |
| Title: Health Tip: Be Wary of Fad DietsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/29/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/29/2009 |
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| Top 10 Heart-Stroke Advances for 2008 |
| Title: Top 10 Heart-Stroke Advances for 2008Category: Health NewsCreated: 1/31/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/2/2009 |
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| Exercise Key Player in Knee Replacement Recovery |
| Title: Exercise Key Player in Knee Replacement RecoveryCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/5/2009 9:11:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/5/2009 |
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| High Cholesterol: Frequently Asked Questions |
| Title: High Cholesterol: Frequently Asked QuestionsCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 2/9/2009Last Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Inflammation May Play Role in Sleep Duration |
| Title: Inflammation May Play Role in Sleep DurationCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/3/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/3/2009 |
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| Two-Thirds of Hispanic Women Discover Breast Cancer Themselves |
| Title: Two-Thirds of Hispanic Women Discover Breast Cancer ThemselvesCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/6/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/6/2009 |
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| Genetic Test for Heart Disease Risk in the Works |
| Title: Genetic Test for Heart Disease Risk in the WorksCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/9/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Healthy Heart Tips for a Bad Economy |
| Title: Healthy Heart Tips for a Bad EconomyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/8/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Gender May Influence Heart Failure Treatment |
| Title: Gender May Influence Heart Failure TreatmentCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/23/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/23/2009 |
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| Hunger Control: Women the Weaker Sex? |
| Title: Hunger Control: Women the Weaker Sex?Category: Health NewsCreated: 1/21/2009Last Editorial Review: 1/21/2009 |
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| Masturbation and Prostate Cancer Risk |
| Title: Masturbation and Prostate Cancer RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/28/2009Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2009 |
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| Substance Abuse Hinders TB Treatment |
| Title: Substance Abuse Hinders TB TreatmentCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/28/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/28/2009 |
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| Artificial Light Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk |
| Title: Artificial Light Linked to Prostate Cancer RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/5/2009 9:11:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/5/2009 |
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| erythromycin, E-Mycin, Eryc, Ery-Tab, Pce, Pediazole, Ilosone |
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| Hydronephrosis |
| Title: HydronephrosisCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/31/1997Last Editorial Review: 2/4/2009 |
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| Sleep Is Sweet for Happily Married Women |
| Title: Sleep Is Sweet for Happily Married WomenCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/29/2009Last Editorial Review: 1/29/2009 |
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| Variations in Gene DNA Boost Drinkers' Cancer Risk |
| Title: Variations in Gene DNA Boost Drinkers' Cancer RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/31/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/2/2009 |
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| Marijuana Linked to Aggressive Testicular Cancer |
| Title: Marijuana Linked to Aggressive Testicular CancerCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/10/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/10/2009 |
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| Statins Don't Cut Cancer Risk |
| Title: Statins Don't Cut Cancer RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/6/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/6/2009 |
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| Female Hormones Deter Salt-Sensitive Hypertension |
| Title: Female Hormones Deter Salt-Sensitive HypertensionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/7/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Get to Know the Pap Test |
| Title: Get to Know the Pap TestCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/9/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Minorities Distrust Medical System More |
| Title: Minorities Distrust Medical System MoreCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/7/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Pregnancy May Not Affect Breast Cancer Survival |
| Title: Pregnancy May Not Affect Breast Cancer SurvivalCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/10/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/10/2009 |
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| Gender Disparities Persist in Treatment of Stroke |
| Title: Gender Disparities Persist in Treatment of StrokeCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/11/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/11/2009 |
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| Genes Help Cancer-Linked Viruses Elude Immune System |
| Title: Genes Help Cancer-Linked Viruses Elude Immune SystemCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/11/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/11/2009 |
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| Gene Mutation Tied to Majority of Cases of Mental Retardation |
| Title: Gene Mutation Tied to Majority of Cases of Mental RetardationCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/5/2009 9:11:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/5/2009 |
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| Health Tip: Wean Your Child From Breastfeeding |
| Title: Health Tip: Wean Your Child From BreastfeedingCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/6/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/6/2009 |
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| Tainted China Formula Caused High Rate of Kidney Stones in Kids |
| Title: Tainted China Formula Caused High Rate of Kidney Stones in KidsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/5/2009 9:11:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/5/2009 |
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| Zinc May Counter Effects of Alcohol in Early Pregnancy |
| Title: Zinc May Counter Effects of Alcohol in Early PregnancyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/6/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/6/2009 |
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| 2 Genes Implicated in Autism |
| Title: 2 Genes Implicated in AutismCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/10/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/10/2009 |
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| For Preschoolers, Even 'Play' Tends to Be Sedentary |
| Title: For Preschoolers, Even 'Play' Tends to Be SedentaryCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/7/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Intussusception |
| Title: IntussusceptionCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 2/2/1999 6:16:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/9/2009 |
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| Keloid |
| Title: KeloidCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 1/25/2000 7:13:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/12/2009 |
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| Obese Moms More Likely to Have Babies With Birth Defects |
| Title: Obese Moms More Likely to Have Babies With Birth DefectsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/11/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/11/2009 |
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| Scientists Spot Possible Treatment for Rett Syndrome |
| Title: Scientists Spot Possible Treatment for Rett SyndromeCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/11/2009 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/11/2009 |
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| Child smokers given cash to quit |
| An NHS trust offering vouchers to children who give up smoking is criticised by the TaxPayers' Alliance. |
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| ME pair appeal ‘unfair NHS rules’ |
| ME patients challenge the NHS approach to treating their condition at the High Court. |
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| Pregnancy heart deaths ‘warning’ |
| Doctors should be more vigilant about the threat of heart disease during pregnancy, a study suggests. |
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| Drink link to hospital admissions |
| Alcohol-related cases have overtaken heart disease as a reason for admission to hospital in Scotland, BBC Scotland learns. |
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| Genes fuel financial risk-taking |
| Some people who take big risks on the stock market can blame their genes for their behaviour, work suggests. |
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| Hospital drug reactions 'common' |
| One in seven hospital patients experience adverse drug reactions, half of which are avoidable, a study finds. |
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| Obese mothers 'risk spina bifida' |
| Mothers-to-be who are obese are more likely to have a baby with spina bifida, researchers say. |
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| Study debunks illegitimacy 'myth' |
| The rate of illegitimate births in the population is lower than many people believe, according to a major study of male ancestry. |
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| Staff vetting |
| Are treatment centre checks up to scratch? |
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| 'It all went silent' |
| Returning to work after an episode of bipolar disorder |
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| A woman's personality traits may be "written all over her face" |
| A woman's personality traits may be "written all over her face", Glasgow University research suggests. |
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| Public health expert says people actually welcome safety advice |
| The 'nanny state' comes in for a lot of criticism. But public health expert Alan Maryon Davis says people actually welcome advice from the government on how to live more safely. |
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| Public protection |
| Are patients safer after the Harold Shipman case? |
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| Reclaim the night |
| Why we should be sleeping - not working or partying |
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| Cash bribes 'help smokers quit' |
| The US company General Electric says its staff are more likely to stop smoking if paid cash incentives. |
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| Firms 'must tackle mental health' |
| Employers must do more to support the mental wellbeing of their staff after they return to work after sick leave, a charity warns. |
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| Jail healthcare ‘not good enough’ |
| Healthcare in prisons in England is still not good enough - despite a shake-up of the system in recent years, two leading watchdogs say. |
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| Prostate cancer urine test hope |
| US scientists move closer to a simple urine test to distinguish between benign and aggressive prostate cancer. |
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| Regular eggs 'no harm to health' |
| Eating as many eggs as you want is unlikely to damage your health by raising cholesterol, research confirms. |
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| Exercise 'cuts colon cancer risk' |
| Bowel cancer screening will save more than 2,200 lives in the UK every year by 2025, researchers say. |
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| Measures to boost child learning |
| A package of measures to boost child health and learning, including a cash boost for children with disabilities, has been unveiled by ministers. |
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| Millions 'opt for DIY dentistry' |
| Millions of people in England have resorted to DIY dentistry, a survey by consumer magazine Which? suggests. |
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| Shipman response 'lacks progress' |
| A doctor could still get away with murder despite the case of serial killer GP Harold Shipman, the inquiry chairwoman tells the BBC. |
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| Dental Treatments Don?t Stop Preterm Births |
| Treating gum disease during pregnancy has not proven to be an effective strategy for preventing preterm births. |
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| Home Repair Raises Lead Levels in Kids |
| Repair, renovation, and painting of older homes can raise lead in the blood of children living in such environments to dangerous levels, the CDC says. |
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| St. Louis a Challenge for Asthma Sufferers |
| St. Louis has been ranked No. 1 by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America as the "most challenging" place in America to live for people with asthma. |
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| Study Suggests Preemie, Autism Link |
| There is growing evidence linking very premature birth to a dramatic increase in autism risk, but more study is needed to confirm the association. |
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| Diabetes Can Double Odds of Alzheimer?s |
| Diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer?s and other kinds of dementia, according to a new report. |
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| FDA Panel Urges Ban of a Pain Drug |
| An FDA advisory panel narrowly voted to recommend that a popular pain drug used in dozens of products should be pulled from the market. |
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| Hormone Linked to Postpartum Depression |
| A study shows that blood levels of the hormone pCRH in pregnant women may help predict postpartum depression. |
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| More to Fingerprints Than Catching Crooks |
| Fingerprints didn't evolve to help cops catch crooks, but the intricate swirls on our fingers likely developed as filters to help us process information we get from touch, a new study shows. |
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| Salmonella Peanut Recalls: Expect More |
| More recalls and a criminal investigation are the latest news in the salmonella outbreak linked to the Peanut Corporation of America's processing plant in Blakely, Ga. |
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| Enoki Mushrooms Recalled Because of Listeria |
| Phillips Mushroom Farms of Kennett Square, Pa., is recalling 3.5 ounce, 4 ounce, and 1 pound packages of enoki mushrooms because they may be contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. |
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| Higher Education, Lower Alzheimer?s Risk |
| Having more education reduces risk of Alzheimer?s disease but doesn?t slow memory loss once it starts, says a new study. |
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| Insulin May Protect Mind, Memory |
| Insulin may slow or prevent Alzheimer's-related memory loss, a finding that fuels existing theories that Alzheimer's disease may be due to an unknown type of diabetes. |
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| Kids Who Take Vitamins May Not Need Them |
| About one-third of American children and teens have taken supplemental vitamins in the past month, and most don't need them, according to a new study. |
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| Mental Illness and Violence: A Link? |
| When mental illness is combined with other risk factors such as substance abuse, it increases the risk of violence, a new study shows. |
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| Heart Rate Predicts Women's Heart Risk |
| A woman's heart rate taken when at rest is a good predictor of her heart attack risk, a new study shows. |
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| Higher Altitude, Better Dialysis Outcome? |
| People on dialysis who live at higher altitudes have a significantly lower rate of death than those who live near sea level, a new study says. |
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| Mushrooms Cut Grapefruit/Drug Effect |
| Grapefruit juice contains compounds that change the way drugs work in the body, but a mash of edible mushrooms pulls these compounds out of the juice. |
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| Psoriasis Ointment Gets FDA Approval |
| A new topical psoriasis treatment, Vectical ointment, is the first FDA-approved drug to contain calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D3. |
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| Radiation From Cardiac CT Scans Varies |
| Radiation doses from CT scans used to diagnose heart and vascular disease vary widely, and they could be reduced significantly if strategies for minimizing exposure were more widely followed, a new st... |
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| Blue Light Kills MRSA |
| Blue light -- not including dangerous UV frequencies -- kills MRSA, the multidrug-resistant staph superbug, a study shows. |
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| Genes vs. Behavior: What Makes Us Age? |
| Genes play a role in your appearance as you get older, but the real villains of the wrinkles of aging involve behavioral choices such as smoking, eating, and sun exposure, a new study shows. |
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| Kids with Asthma Don?t Miss More School |
| A new study of students in Dallas inner-city schools shows that students with asthma do not miss school more than students without asthma. This marks a change from past studies. |
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| Menopause Hormone Therapy: 'Safe' Time? |
| Two new studies gauge breast cancer risk from hormone replacement therapy. |
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| Obama Signs Kids' Health Insurance Bill |
| President Barack Obama signed a bill that adds an estimated 4 million children to government-sponsored health insurance coverage. |
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| RSV: Winter Virus Common Cause of Illness |
| More than 2 million young children require medical treatment for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) every year, yet most never receive a confirmed diagnosis, new research shows. |
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| Color Yourself Cautious or Creative |
| The colors red and blue have more going for them than their looks -- they could affect how focused or creative you are, a new color association study shows. |
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| Fertility Drugs, Ovarian Cancer: No Link |
| The largest study ever to examine the impact of fertility drugs on ovarian cancer risk shows little evidence of a link. |
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| Insured Cancer Patients Face High Costs |
| Cancer patients face the risk of high medical costs even though they have insurance policies, warns a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Cancer Society. |
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| Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Pancreatic Cancer Surgery |
| U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, had surgery today for what appears to be early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a statement released by the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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| Smokers Have Rapid Aging Defect |
| Cigarette smoke causes the same cellular defect seen in people with Werner's syndrome -- a rare genetic disease that makes people age very fast. |
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| Vitamin D May Cut Multiple Sclerosis Risk |
| Not getting enough vitamin D may increase multiple sclerosis risk in people with a certain gene variant, researchers report. |
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| Can You Name 3 Trans Fat Foods? |
| Nine out of 10 Americans know trans fats are bad for health -- but only one in five can name three foods high in trans fat. |
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| Eyes Offer Clues to Age and Alertness |
| Researchers say younger people seem to make judgments about the age and alertness of older folks by looking into and around their eyes. |
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| Mediterranean Diet May Preserve Memory |
| A new study shows that people who eat a Mediterranean-style diet are less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment, which is a stage of memory loss between typical aging and Alzheimer?s disease. |
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| Multivitamins May Not Cut Cancer Odds |
| Taking a multivitamin may not make cancer, heart disease, or death from any cause less likely for postmenopausal women. |
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| Risk to Pets Motivates Smokers to Quit |
| Smokers are motivated to quit the habit to protect their pets from secondhand smoke, a new survey shows. |
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| New Child Product Safety Law Starts |
| The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, a new safety law for children's products and toys, has gone into effect, targeting lead and chemicals called phthalates. |
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| Obesity Carries Pregnancy Risks |
| Women who are obese during pregnancy are at higher risk than normal-weight women of having babies with certain birth defects, including neural tube defects such as spina bifida, heart problems and cle... |
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| Octuplets' Birth Sparks Fertility Debate |
| As the mother and grandmother of the two-week-old California octuplets squared off on competing morning talk shows, infertility specialists continue to voice their dismay over the fertility treatment ... |
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| Surgery Improves Use of Artificial Arms |
| A new surgery may give people with an amputated arm better control of a new artificial limb. |
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| Top 5 Reasons for Skipping Sex |
| Being tired or needing sleep are the top reasons for skipping sex, a new poll shows. |
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| Vaginal Gel Cuts Women's HIV Risk |
| For the first time, a woman-controlled product -- the PRO 2000 vaginal gel -- appears to protect women from getting HIV during sex. |
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| Blood Clue May Predict Adult Leukemia |
| Having certain blood cells (monoclonal B cells) in the blood may be an early warning sign of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a new study shows. |
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| Key Piece to Prostate Cancer Puzzle Found |
| Powerful new technology links the amino acid sarcosine to aggressive prostate cancer and identifies it as a bad actor that makes cancer worse. |
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| Obesity a Pain in the Back? |
| The number of Americans suffering from chronic low back pain is on the rise, and a new study says the nation?s obesity epidemic may be partly to blame. |
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| Peanut Product Recalls Top 1,800 |
| More than 1,800 peanut products have been recalled in the wake of the salmonella outbreak linked to the Peanut Corporation of America's Blakely, Ga., plant. |
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| Women Often Unaware of Stroke Risk |
| A survey shows many women who are at risk for stroke are unable to identify many of the risk factors for stroke. |
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| Financial Incentives Help Smokers Quit |
| No matter how much people are told about the hazards of cigarette smoking, cold hard cash may be the best motivator to get people to quit, a new study suggests. |
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| Psoriasis Drug May Ease Psoriatic Arthritis |
| Ustekinumab, a biologic drug designed to treat psoriasis, may also curb psoriatic arthritis, researchers report online in The Lancet. |
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| Vaccine Court Rejects Autism Claims |
| The U.S. Court of Federal Claims' vaccine court has decided against the plaintiffs in three test cases about whether the MMR vaccine and thimerosal cause autism. |
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| Most depressed teens recover with treatment: study |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A majority of teenagers treated for major depression show lasting improvements, though it may take several months for the benefits to appear, a new study suggests.
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| Astronauts' bone strength lost in space |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Astronauts on long-term missions in space show a marked decline in bone strength once they return to Earth, a new study finds.
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| Dangerous low blood sugar linked to sex drugs |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Illegal anti-impotence drugs and herbs contaminated with the diabetes drug glyburide have caused some 150 cases of dangerously low blood sugar, researchers in Singapore reported on ... |
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| Gene explosion set humans, great apes apart |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An eruption of a poorly understood kind of genetic change set humans apart from great apes, and also sets chimps, gorillas and orangutans apart from monkeys, researchers reporte... |
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| Mediterranean diet may help prevent spina bifida |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Moms-to-be can help prevent their babies from developing a serious spinal cord defect by eating a Mediterranean diet, Dutch researchers say.
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| Moles and melanoma risk similar worldwide |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although where one lives may influence the risk for skin cancer, people with a large number of moles seem to have a consistent risk regardless of their latitude of residenc... |
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| More effort needed to curb hepatitis - experts |
| HONG KONG (Reuters) - Governments must do more to raise awareness and curb rising incidences of chronic hepatitis B and C, diseases that affect more than 500 million people in the world, a leading exp... |
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| Art therapy ups breast cancer patients' well-being |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women having radiation treatment for breast cancer experienced lasting improvements in mental and physical health and quality of life after participating in five sessions o... |
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| Bribes help workers kick the habit |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Not only does it pay to stop smoking because your health improves, you're more likely to quit if you get paid well to do it.
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| Cold's "family tree" may lead to cure: study |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who mapped the DNA of more than 100 different cold viruses said on Thursday they discovered a shortcut in their life cycle, which may explain why they can inflict mi... |
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| 2nd peanut plant closed |
| A subsidiary of a company that is under investigation for a deadly salmonella outbreak has suspended operation of its processing facility in Plainview, Texas, while authorities investigate their plant... |
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| China kills 13,000 birds to control 'epidemic' |
| China has killed 13,000 birds in the country's far northwest to control what it called an epidemic of bird flu, state media reported Tuesday.
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| Comatose woman in euthanasia debate dies |
| An Italian woman who had been in a coma for 17 years and whose right-to-die case was being debated in the Italian Senate has died, according to her father.
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| Peanut butter officials spurn Congress' questions |
| The president of a peanut company and a plant manager accused of knowingly distributing contaminated food both refused to answer questions posed by members of Congress on Wednesday, citing their Fifth... |
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| Study: Humidifiers may help fight flu |
| The cold, dry air of winter can give you chapped lips, cracked hands, and now, a study suggests, a better chance of getting the flu. A new analysis of previous data shows that in low-humidity conditio... |
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| Study: Multivitamins don't cut women's cancer risk |
| Judy LaCour has been taking a multivitamin supplement for the past 30 years: "As often as I can remember, which isn't always, but on and off since I was in my 40s." She buys them in bulk from her loca... |
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| Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant |
| A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistanc... |
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| Octuplets' mom seeks online donations |
| Nadya Suleman, the single mother of newborn octuplets, is using the Internet to help support her family of 14 children. She's started a Web site seeking donations.
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| Researchers complete genetic map of the cold virus |
| Researchers have solved the first step in treating the common cold, by mapping its entire genome, or genetic map, teams from the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported... |
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| Art therapy ups breast cancer patients' well-being
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - Women having radiation treatment for breast cancer experienced lasting improvements in mental and physical health and quality of life after participating in five sessions of art therapy, Swe... |
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| Court rejects parents' suit linking autism, vaccines
(AFP) |
| AFP - A US court rejected a lawsuit by three families seeking monetary compensation for their children's autism, which they claim was caused by routine vaccinations. |
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| Dangerous low blood sugar linked to sex drugs
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - Illegal anti-impotence drugs and herbs contaminated with the diabetes drug glyburide have caused some 150 cases of dangerously low blood sugar, researchers in Singapore reported on Wednesday... |
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| Docs Override Most Electronic Drug Warnings
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| HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors often override
electronic medication safety alerts and rely instead on their own judgment
when prescribing drugs for patients, which suggest... |
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| Mother's Obesity Raises Risk of Birth Defects
(Time.com) |
| Time.com - A new study suggests that obesity during pregnancy is a powerful and far-reaching risk factor for birth defects |
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| Rate of memory decline differs by dementia type
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - The rate at which people with dementia lose their memory differs significantly according to the type of dementia they have, new research from France suggests. The research also highlights th... |
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| Atlanta hospital finds Legionnaire's bacteria
(AP) |
| AP - Atlanta's largest hospital has found the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease in patients' rooms, and officials said Thursday it likely sickened four people who were treated there. |
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| Court says vaccine is not to blame for autism
(AP) |
| AP - In a big blow to parents who believe vaccines caused their children's autism, a special court ruled Thursday that the shots are not to blame. |
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| Sobering results for cost-cutting Medicare project
(AP) |
| AP - An ambitious effort to cut costs and keep aging, sick Medicare patients out of the hospital mostly didn't work, a government-contracted study found. The disappointing results show how tough it is... |
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| Study: Paying smokers to quit boosts success rate
(AP) |
| AP - Dangling enough dollars in front of smokers who want to quit helps many more succeed, an experiment with hundreds of General Electric Co. workers indicates. Among those paid up to $750 to quit an... |
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| When toddlers point a lot, more words will follow
(AP) |
| AP - Don't just talk to your toddler — gesture, too. Pointing, waving bye-bye and other natural gestures seem to boost a budding vocabulary. |
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| Belmont Journal: Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly. |
| A strict antismoking law in a city in Silicon Valley has effectively banned lighting up in all apartment buildings. |
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| Cases Without Borders: For Gaza Psychologist, Hope Amid Despair |
| Gaza has never been easy and two weeks after the bombings started it is hard to find hope. Yet in the midst of despair, psychologists do find some. |
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| Essay: The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past |
| The term ?paleofantasies? applies to nostalgia for the very old days as a touchstone for the way life is supposed to be and why it sometimes feels so out of balance. |
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| Mind: Sex and Depression: In the Brain, if Not the Mind |
| A little sadness after sex is nothing strange, but deep unhappiness indicates something more. |
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| Notes to Soothe the Savage Cells |
| A playlist for living with cancer, from a music-obsessive being treated for the disease. |
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| 18 and Under: The Cough-and-Sniffle Question: When to Keep a Child Home? |
| Keep your child home from school if there?s fever, or if the child feels too crummy to participate -- but don?t worry so much about the runny nose in the row behind. |
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| Books: Reality Intrudes on an Undercover Mental Patient |
| ?Voluntary Madness? is a book by an undercover patient investigating the mental health system from the inside. |
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| Cases: In Matters of the Heart, Luck Can Make All the Difference |
| To get diagnoses and treatment plans right, we need doctors who know us over time, and who have the time to know us. |
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| Cases: Post-Op Strategies: Painkillers, to Start |
| Some post-op tips for anyone who has just had a prostatectomy and for those of you about to have one. |
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| Doctor and Patient: When Doctors and Nurses Can?t Do the Right Thing |
| Doctors and nurses are increasingly being forced to compromise on what they believe is right for their patients. |
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| Really?: The Claim: Never Blow Your Nose When You Have a Cold |
| Some people argue blowing your nose reverses the flow of mucus into the sinuses and slows drainage. |
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| Back Story: Don?t We Already Have a Health Plan for the Poor? |
| Despite popular misconceptions, Medicaid doesn?t insure everyone who is poor; proposed legislation to cover healthy workers who have been laid off is ?unprecedented,? experts say. |
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| F.D.A. Approves Drug From Gene-Altered Goats |
| The drug, which prevents blood clots in people with a rare condition, is made from the milk of genetically engineered animals, which may usher a new era in pharmaceuticals. |
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| Patient Money: Strategies for Saving on Prescription Drugs |
| Drugs have never been so expensive -- or so cheap. |
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| Peanut Supplier Banned From Federal Business |
| An order bans the Peanut Corporation of America and a subsidiary from doing business with the federal government for one year. |
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| Personal Health: America?s Diet: Too Sweet by the Spoonful |
| The average American has a daily intake of more than twice the recommended amount of sugar. |
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| A.M.A. Joins Several States in Suing Aetna and Cigna |
| The American Medical Association and others say two health insurers for more than a decade rigged a database to underpay doctors on out-of-network claims. |
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| F.D.A. Finds ?Natural? Diet Pills Laced With Drugs |
| The Food and Drug Administration says the weight-loss capsules StarCaps contain a potent pharmaceutical drug called bumetanide, which can have serious side effects. |
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| F.D.A. to Place New Limits on Prescriptions of Narcotics |
| Many doctors may lose their ability to prescribe 24 popular narcotic medicines, federal drug officials announced Monday. |
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| Peanut Case Shows Holes in Safety Net |
| Conditions at the Peanut Corporation of America were just one element in the outbreak of salmonella. |
| 0 minutes ago |
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| UnitedHealth and I.B.M. Test Health Care Plan |
| The giant insurer will test a system to reward doctors for the overall quality of care patients receive. |
| 0 minutes ago |
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| Who?s Sticking With Us? |
| Peanut butter?s popularity has made a salmonella outbreak all the more serious.The popularity of peanut butter may help its reputation survive intact, despite a contamination scare. |
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| Building on the Abs of Madonna and Gwyneth |
| Tracy Anderson in her new studio in TriBeCa.A workout trainer responsible for Madonna's and Gwyneth Paltrow's toned physiques has opened a studio in New York City. |
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| David C. Sabiston Jr., Heart Surgeon, Dies at 84 |
| Dr. Sabiston led a surgical team in performing an early and daring coronary bypass operation in the 1960s, paving the way for more effective cardiac procedures. |
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| Fitness: Dieting? Put Your Money Where Your Fat Is |
| Dennis Roberson, left, and Samwoo Ee are former co-workers who took part in a weight-loss competition with others in their office.Internet sites that facilitate diet betting have seen an increase in u... |
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| Gene Study Finds Link to Cancer of Thyroid |
| Scientists have identified two genetic variations that account for 57 percent of cases of thyroid cancer, a finding that could lead to earlier detection. |
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| In Kitchen, ?Losers? Start From Scratch |
| Heba Salama on ?Biggest Loser.?On ?The Biggest Loser,?? the hardest thing contestants do is learn to feed themselves. |
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| Advertising: A Birth Control Pill That Promised Too Much |
| As part of a settlement, Bayer is running ads that clarify the side benefits of its birth control drug, Yaz. Regulators say earlier ads played down the risks. |
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| In New Procedure, Artificial Arm Listens to Brain |
| An advance in prosthetic arms allows people to move them more automatically than ever. |
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| Itineraries: Traveling Mothers Face Hurdles in Pumping Breast Milk |
| A business trip still presents an array of challenges for breastfeeding mothers. |
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| Novartis Buys Rights to a Drug to Thin Blood |
| Novartis has obtained the rights to an anticlotting drug that could eventually compete with Plavix, the world?s second-best-selling medicine. |
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| The Way We Live Now: The Toxic Paradox |
| Can we really protect our kids from everything? |
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| Bone Drugs May Help Fight Breast Cancer |
| A drug of a class commonly used to combat bone loss may reduce by a third the chance that some breast cancers will spread or recur, a large study has found. |
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| City Unveils Facebook Page to Encourage Condom Use |
| The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has introduced a Facebook page and Facebook application to promote the use of condoms. |
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| Peanut Products Sent Out Before Tests |
| The company made shipments before receiving results of tests showing contamination, documents show. |
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| Sanofi Drug Found Promising for Heart Ailment |
| Sanofi-Aventis got a big push Wednesday for a new drug for a potentially serious heart condition when a leading medical journal reported promising results from a clinical trial. |
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| Willem Kolff, Inventor of Kidney and Heart Machines, Dies at 97 |
| After inventing the first artificial kidney, Dr. Kolff went on to prove that biomedical engineers could build all sorts of artificial organs. |
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| Government?s New Online Cancer Risk Tool Omits Minorities |
| Blacks, Hispanics and Asians cannot use a colorectal cancer risk assessment because it relies on data derived from studies of older whites. Government researchers hope to broaden the application. |
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| Morning Rounds: Health Reform Support, Warnings on Peanuts and Madoff?s Newest Victims |
| Health news from around the Web. |
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| National Briefing | West: California: Inquiry in Fertility Case |
| The American Society for Reproductive Medicine says it is investigating whether fertility treatment guidelines were broken in the case of a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last m... |
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| Obesity During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Birth Defects |
| Researchers find more evidence that babies born to obese women are at increased risk of spina bifida and other birth defects. |
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| Vital Signs: Regimens: Multivitamins Not Found to Reduce Risks |
| Many postmenopausal women take multivitamins in the belief that they help prevent cardiovascular disease or cancer, but a large study has found that they do neither. |
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| Birth of Octuplets Puts Focus on Fertility Clinics |
| Experts say many doctors implant too many embryos, leading to costly or sometimes dangerous multiple births. |
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| Court Says Vaccine Not to Blame for Autism |
| Three federal judges ruled against families seeking compensation, saying the shots were not to blame. |
| 0 minutes ago |
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| Cure for the Common Cold? Not Yet, but It Looks Possible |
| Researchers said that they had decoded the genomes of the 99 strains of common cold virus and developed a catalog of the virus?s vulnerabilities. |
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