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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — Over the last decade, the
number of Medicare patients hospitalized for cardiac issues dropped,
accounting for a smaller slice of the 10-year hospitalization rate than
non-heart related issues, new research indicates.
Read More: Fewer Medicare Patients Hospitalized for Heart Trouble
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Reuters – As Korea has become more “Westernized” since the late-1990s, the number of adults with multiple risk factors for heart disease and diabetes has steadily climbed, a new study finds.
Read More: Heart risk factors rising in "Westernizing" Korea
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LiveScience.com – A computer that claims responsibility for a terrorist bombing might typically be cause for alarm, but one particular computer’s delusional tale delighted researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. The computer’s neural network had successfully mimicked the strange stories of schizophrenic patients by having an abnormally high learning rate.
Read More: Schizophrenic Simulation: Computer Acts Out Human Disease
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) — Many tanning salons in the
United States don’t warn teens and young women about the skin cancer risks
posed by tanning beds, according to a new survey.
Read More: Too Few Teens Know the Dangers of Tanning Beds: Poll
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Reuters – Alaska has the nation’s highest rate of Chlamydia and second-highest rate of gonorrhea as the sexually transmitted diseases spread in rural areas, according to the Alaska Division of Public Health.
Read More: Sexually transmitted diseases go up in Alaska
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Reuters – Rarely prescribed asthma pills made by drugmakers such as AstraZeneca and Merck are easier to use and just as effective as conventional inhaler treatments, according to research by British scientists.
Read More: Asthma pills as good as inhaler: study
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — A four-drug chemotherapy
regimen for deadly pancreatic cancer nearly doubled patients’ survival
time compared to standard chemotherapy, a new study suggests.
Read More: Chemo Combo May Help Stave Off Pancreatic Cancer Death
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Reuters – There is no convincing evidence that taking high doses of selenium — a popular dietary supplement — can prevent cancer, according to a new review.
Read More: Selenium doesn't prevent cancer: report
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) — Women who drink a substantial
amount of coffee each day may lower their risk for developing a particular
type of breast cancer, Swedish researchers say.
Read More: Are Coffee Drinkers Less Prone to Aggressive Breast Cancer?
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AP – Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood.
Read More: Alarming combo: Bedbugs with 'superbug' germ found
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — It may be possible to
assess a man’s fertility by checking his “anogenital distance,” the gap
between his scrotum and anus, a new study suggests.
Read More: Can Crotch Length Predict Infertility in Men?
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — Having the flu during
pregnancy isn’t associated with a heightened risk of autism or
developmental delay in children, although having a fever during pregnancy
might be.
Read More: Fever During Pregnancy, Diabetes and Obesity May Raise Autism
Risk
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AFP – A certain gene in some monkeys can help boost vaccine protection against simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a trait that could help researchers develop better AIDS vaccines for humans, suggested a study out Wednesday.
Read More: Some monkeys born with gene that protects against AIDS
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AP – Scientists believe they’ve discovered stem cells in the lung that can make a wide variety of the organ’s tissues, a finding that might open new doors for treating emphysema and other diseases.
Read More: Scientists identify possible human lung stem cell
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Reuters – Shea butter is in everything from diaper cream to tissue paper, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers shea nuts — from which the butter derives – to be tree nuts, and therefore potential allergens. A new study suggests, however, that shea butter poses little, if any, allergy risk to people who use products containing the substance.
Read More: Corrected: Shea nuts appear safe in allergy study
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U.S. News & World Report – Federal officials have approved a new weapon against anal cancer. Merck’s Gardasil can now be marketed as an anal cancer vaccine for men and women ages 9 to 26, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday. Clinical data suggest the vaccine, originally approved to prevent cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer caused by the human papillomavirus, could also be 78 percent effective in preventing anal cancer associated with four strains of HPV. Both men and women are affected by the disease, but the incidence is highest among men who have sex with men. …
Read More: Health Buzz: FDA Approves Gardasil for Anal Cancer
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Reuters – Only a minority of obese youths are screened for diabetes, liver problems and high cholesterol, electronic medical records from an Ohio healthcare system show.
Read More: Little screening of kids for obesity complications
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AFP – Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk said Thursday it planned to put a new insulin product on the market by 2013 after tests showed advantages to the widely sold diabetes drug Lantus.
Read More: Novo Nordisk says to market improved insulin in 2013
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
Read More: Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 23, 2010
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) — Flu activity in the United
States was low this fall throughout most of the nation, but government
health officials expect flu viruses will infect more people in the weeks
and months to come.
Read More: Flu Activity Low So Far, But More Cases to Come: CDC
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Reuters – Britain’s state-run health service will get a partial rebate from GlaxoSmithKline if the company’s new kidney cancer drug Votrient does not match up to a rival medicine in a head-to-head clinical trial.
Read More: GSK offers UK rebate if Pfizer cancer drug better
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) — Here’s another reason not
to pile on too many excess pounds: A new study finds that the obese and
very obese are at raised risk of death in severe car crashes.
Read More: Obese Drivers at Higher Risk of Death in Car Crashes: Study
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) — Most people think of arthritis as
a disease of old age, with people’s joints growing creaky and painful
later in life.
Read More: Doctor Shortage Adds to Pain of Juvenile Arthritis
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AP – The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that Abbott Laboratories is recalling up to 359 million testing strips used by diabetics because they can give falsely low blood sugar readings.
Read More: Abbott recalls millions of diabetes testing strips
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
Read More: Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 22, 2010
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests that many
cancer cells are equipped with a kind of suicide pill: a protein on their
surfaces that gives them the ability to send an “eat me” signal to immune
cells.
Read More: Cancer Cells May Be Able to Urge Their Own Death
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LiveScience.com – A recent study from the Environmental Working Group found that the drinking water in 89 percent of surveyed U.S. cities had detectable amounts of hexavalent chromium, a likely carcinogen.
Read More: Can Chromium in Drinking Water Cause Cancer?
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Reuters – Abbott Laboratories is recalling as many as 359 million blood glucose testing strips that could give false results to diabetics, the company and U.S. regulators said on Wednesday.
Read More: Abbott recalls diabetes test strips in U.S
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Time.com – A sexual health clinic in the San Fernando Valley — the Hollywood of pornography — has been denied a license to operate as a community clinic by California’s Department of Public Health
Read More: California Porn Clinic Is Denied a License by the State
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HealthDay – Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 21, 2010
Opioid Induced Constipation
Parkinson’s Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Read More: Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 21, 2010
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Lichen planus is a disease that results in a
rash on the skin or inside the mouth. While its exact cause isn’t known,
it’s believed triggered by an allergic or immune system reaction.
Read More: Health Tip: Lichen Planus Triggers Skin Rash
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Food and Drug
Administration approval of Gardasil (human papillomavirus vaccine) has
been widened to include prevention of anal cancer and associated
precancerous lesions, the agency said Wednesday in a news release.
Read More: Gardasil Approval Expanded to Include Anal Cancer
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Reuters – Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc plans to resubmit its application for its experimental weight-loss drug by the end of next year, it said on Wednesday after meeting with U.S. regulators.
Read More: Arena eyes obesity drug refiling by end of 2011
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AP – The Vatican on Tuesday sought to clarify the pope’s controversial comments about condoms and HIV, saying he by no means suggested condom use could be condoned as a means of avoiding pregnancy.
Read More: Vatican clarifies pope's condom comments
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Reuters – More than 300 people are in intensive care in hospitals across Britain with flu, and European health officials say the region should act now to encourage more people to get vaccinated.
Read More: Severe flu cases in UK serve as warning to Europe
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AP – Giving alternative treatments such as homeopathic remedies instead of conventional medicines to children may have deadly side effects in rare instances, a new analysis says.
Read More: Alternative medicines sometimes dangerous for kids
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) — How people fare when oral
cancer recurs depends on where and when the cancer returns, a new study
has found.
Read More: Recurrence of Oral Cancer Found to Signal Poor Outcome
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AP – Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in four states and possibly more, health officials said Wednesday as a company dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs.
Read More: Egg recall tied to salmonella grows to 380 million
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Reuters – Cancer patients, particularly in developing regions, are in dire need of painkillers and affordable drugs, experts said.
Read More: More painkillers needed for cancer patients: experts
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) — Older people who have a fear of
falling are at increased risk for future falls, regardless of their actual
risk of tumbling, a new study finds.
Read More: In Seniors, 'Fear of Falling' Risky in Itself
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) — For people with the metabolic
syndrome — a cluster of risk factors such as obesity, high blood
pressure, high levels of blood fats or triglycerides and high blood
sugar — adding a little fish oil to a diet low in saturated fats and high
in complex carbohydrates might be just the ticket, a new study
suggests.
Read More: Adding Fish Oil to Low-Fat/High-Carb Diet May Improve
Cholesterol
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) — Like so many people, Debra
Greene spent much of her childhood out in the sunshine.
Read More: How Sun Time as a Kid Led to Eye Surgery
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Reuters – While the extent of obesity among kids overall seems to have peaked, it’s still climbing among African American and Native American girls, new research from California shows.
Read More: Study IDs 'alarming disparities' in child obesity
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HealthDay – SATURDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Experts used to advise
parents to simply sever ties when their children left home to start
college, but they now recommend letting go in phases and stages.
Read More: Parenting 101: How to Let Go as Your Child Heads Off to
College
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AP – More than a half-billion eggs have been recalled in the nationwide investigation of a salmonella outbreak that Friday expanded to include a second Iowa farm. The outbreak has already sickened more than 1,000 people and the toll of illnesses is expected to increase.
Read More: Recall expands to more than half a billion eggs
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AP – A group of federal health experts narrowly voted to expand approval of a best-selling antidepressant on Thursday, though panelists disagreed over which types of pain the pill effectively treats.
Read More: FDA panel mixed on approving Cymbalta for pain
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AP – There’s a lot less smoking in the movies these days, a new report shows.
Read More: Study: Smoking scenes on the decline in top movies
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) — A new analysis of existing
research suggests that eating more green, leafy vegetables can
significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but more
study is needed.
Read More: Green, Leafy Vegetables Linked to Lower Type 2 Diabetes
Risk
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Reuters – A pair of studies suggests that the common painkiller acetaminophen — better known as Tylenol in the U.S. — may be fueling a worldwide increase in asthma.
Read More: Acetaminophen tied to childhood wheezing and allergies
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) — HIV-1 in semen is different
than HIV-1 in blood, possibly due to changes it undergoes in the genital
tract, scientists have found.
Read More: HIV in Blood Different Than in Semen, Scientists Say
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