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Is this the cure for osteoporosis? Scientists discover pill that heals brittle bones
dailymail.co.uk - 2-8-10
An easily administered, once-a-day drug that makes brittle bones strong again has been discovered by scientists.
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Mediterranean diet may help prevent dementia, study says
cnn.com - 2-8-10
Eating a diet rich in healthy fats and limiting dairy and meat could do more than keep your heart healthier. It could also help keep you thinking clearly.
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Exercise 'cuts risk of developing painful gallstones'
news.bbc.co.uk - 2-8-10
Doing lots of exercise drastically cuts the risk of developing painful gallstones, UK researchers have found.
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Looking young for your age? Thank the Peter Pan gene
dailymail.co.uk - 2-8-10
Scientists have found a 'Peter Pan gene' that could explain why some people remain baby-faced while others become old before their time.
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Is Fat the New Normal?
webmd.com - 2-7-10
A rise in average body weight may be changing how we see ourselves.
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Daily pill helped cure osteoporosis in mice, rats
reuters.com - 2-7-10
A once-a-day pill helped completely rebuild bone in rodents with severe osteoporosis, a finding that could lead to a new class of drugs to treat the brittle-bone disease in humans, U.S. researchers said.
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Study links sugary soft drinks to pancreas cancer
reuters.com - 2-7-10
People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.
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Lower your heart rate to prevent a heart attack
msnbc.msn.com - 2-6-10
Italian researchers found that having a resting heart rate above 70 beats per minute (bpm) increases your risk of dying of heart disease by at least 78 percent. Follow the tips below to help drop your bpm and improve your odds.
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Premature birth gene clue found
news.bbc.co.uk - 2-6-10
DNA differences which appear to affect the risk of giving birth early have been found by US scientists.
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Blood pressure: alcohol, smoking and caffeine
latimes.com - 2-6-10
Is having a bad habit ever a good thing? It kind of can be if your aim is to lower your blood pressure, since one way to do that is to reduce your alcohol consumption significantly. It's a winning strategy -- but only, of course, if you were drinking a lot in the first place.
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Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, Committee Says
bloomberg.com - 2-6-10
Air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments must explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation, an inter-agency report said.
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Curry spice saffron 'could stop you going blind'
dailymail.co.uk - 2-6-10
Test findings suggest the spice reverses age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, the most common cause of blindness in old people.
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Meet Oscar, the cat who knows too much...
dailymail.co.uk - 2-6-10
When a nursing home doctor heard that the resident tabby could sense when a patient was about to die, he was sceptical. But a series of spooky events convinced him the cat might really have special powers.
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Hormone therapy may lower colon cancer risk
msnbc.msn.com - 2-4-10
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can carry serious health risks, but a new study adds to evidence that menopausal women who use the hormones may have lower odds of developing colon cancer.
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The Gift of a Generation: Women's Heart Disease Risk Dropping
abcnews.go.com - 2-4-10
Today would have been Olivia Passanando's birthday. She died from congestive heart failure in 1988 at the age of 69.
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Miracle as girl, 3, recovers from brain tumour after it simply disappears
dailymail.co.uk - 2-4-10
When Liberty Rose Finn's little body could take no more gruelling chemotherapy to fight her inoperable brain tumour, the three-year-old's parents feared the worst.
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'Vegetative state' man responds to questions
cnn.com - 2-4-10
A man presumed to have been in a vegetative state for five years has communicated with the outside world for the first time since suffering severe head injuries in a car crash, researchers said Thursday.
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Republicans Favor Medical Marijuana, Poll Shows
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - 2-4-10
Medical marijuana's support among voters in New York State is so solid that even a substantial majority of Republicans favor its legalization, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. The poll found that 71 percent of voters supported medical marijuana, including 55 percent of registered Republicans.
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Canadian Premier's Heart Surgery Plans Raise Questions About Health Care
foxnews.com - 2-4-10
A prominent Canadian politician's decision to undergo heart surgery in the U.S. has touched off a debate about national health care in his own country.
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Do we want brain scanners to read our minds?
telegraph.co.uk - 2-4-10
What nightmare could be worse than being buried alive? Conscious, terrified, but unable to communicate through the impenetrable barrier of a coffin lid and a metre of earth. In the past few days, this ultimate horror has been transformed from the stuff of bad dreams and B movies to two very different front page stories.
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HIV Researchers Solve Key Puzzle After 20 Years of Trying
sciencedaily.com - 2-4-10
Researchers have made a breakthrough in HIV research that had eluded scientists for over 20 years, potentially leading to better treatments for HIV, in a study published January 30 in the journal Nature.
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Flame retardant may affect fertility
msnbc.msn.com - 2-3-10
Having difficulty getting pregnant? Perhaps your sofa is to blame. Or your stereo or carpet or any of the things in your house that contain common flame-retardant chemicals known as PBDEs that a new study suggests may be associated with decreased fertility.
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Dementia costs UK economy £23bn every year - more than cancer and heart disease together
dailymail.co.uk - 2-3-10
One million Britons will be victims of dementia within 15 years, according to a shocking report.
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Marijuana could face strict regulation, big taxes
sfgate.com - 1-3-10
Legislation is in the works at the state capitol that would dramatically change how marijuana is regulated in the state and bring in a good chunk of cash to California's beleaguered state budget.
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Clinicians Need to Be Aware of Patient Use of Herbal Products
modernmedicine.com - 2-3-10
Health care professionals need to be aware of their patients' use of herbal remedies, which can adversely interact with many common cardiovascular medications, according to a review in the Feb. 9 Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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Morbidly obese 'may have missing genes'
news.bbc.co.uk - 2-3-10
A small number of extremely overweight people may be missing the same chunk of genetic material, claim UK researchers.
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Experts say 40 percent of cancers could be prevented
reuters.com - 2-3-10
Forty percent of the 12 million people diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year could avert the killer disease by protecting themselves against infections and changing their lifestyles, experts said Tuesday.
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Health Buzz: Study Ties SIDS to Key Brain Chemical
usnews.com - 2-3-10
A new study suggests that sudden infant death syndrome is caused by insufficient levels of a brain chemical that helps control breathing during sleep, HealthDay reports. Researchers looked at levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, and the enzyme trytophan hydroxylase, which makes serotonin, in 35 babies who died of SIDS.
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Vegetative Patients Talk With Brain
webmd.com - 2-3-10
A few patients who appear to be in a persistent vegetative state may in fact be aware of themselves and their surroundings.
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FBI: Unruly Passenger Blames Medical Pot Cookies
cbs3.com - 2-3-10
A San Francisco man claims he was high on a double dose of medical marijuana cookies when he screamed, dropped his pants and attacked crew members on a cross-country flight, forcing its diversion to Pittsburgh, the FBI said Wednesday.
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Low serotonin levels might cause sudden infant death
usatoday.com - 2-2-10
Researchers may have solved the mystery of what makes some babies vulnerable to sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, which kills more than 2,300 babies a year.
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Herbal medicine is under threat
guardian.co.uk - 2-2-10
Tomorrow, an army of medical herbalists will be demonstrating outside the House of Commons. "What are they going to do," wonders sceptic Adam Rutherford, an editor at the science journal Nature, "wave strands of lavender at MPs?" But Michael McIntyre, chair of the European Herbal and Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association (EHTPA), has called for the demonstration because, quite frankly, he has had enough.
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Marijuana legalization tops list of YouTube questions for Obama
dailycaller.com - 2-2-10
On Wednesday, January 27, CitizenTube streamed the State of the Union address live on its YouTube site and hosted a Google Moderator series that allowed viewers to submit and vote on questions in response to President Obama's address.
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Childhood asthma in premature babies linked pregnancy bug
usatoday.com - 2-2-10
A common complication during pregnancy may predispose children born prematurely to asthma, a large study reports today.
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Obese boys more likely to begin puberty late: study finds fat-puberty link that is opposite of girls'
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 2-2-10
While obesity has been shown to bring on puberty earlier in girls, a new study finds the opposite trend for overweight boys: Male children whose body-mass index (BMI) is consistently highest through early and mid-childhood are significantly more likely than thinner boys to have delayed puberty.
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Antidepressants may help stroke victims
latimes.com - 2-2-10
A study shows that memory skills and cognitive functioning may improve in stroke patients who don't suffer from depression after treatment with the medication.
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Can fish oil help guard against schizophrenia?
reuters.com - 2-2-10
Taking fish oil may help prevent full-blown psychotic illness in at-risk adolescents and young adults, a study released today hints.
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Abstinence-only classes may be effective for young teens
latimes.com - 2-2-10
A new study shows for the first time that a sex education class emphasizing abstinence only -- ignoring moral implications of sexual activity -- can reduce sexual activity by nearly a third in 12- and 13-year-olds compared with students who received no sex education.
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Sunbathing 'boosts men's sex drives': Testosterone levels rise with Vitamin D increase
dailymail.co.uk - 2-2-10
A spot of sunbathing boosts men's sex drive, reveals a new study.
Testosterone levels in men's blood rise accordingly with doses of vitamin D.
The vital nutrient is produced in the body after exposure to sunlight and can also be obtained from eating oily fish and meat.
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Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home
telegraph.co.uk - 2-1-10
A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.
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Herbal Remedies Can Cause Cardiac Problems
businessweek.com - 2-1-10
The growing number of Americans who are taking traditional herbal medications for heart problems are unaware of the dangers those treatments pose, a new report says.
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Less Sleep Normal Part of Aging?
www.webmd.com - 2-1-10
Getting less sleep at night may be a normal part of healthy aging and nothing to worry about for most healthy adults.
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A Study Finds Mental Benefit of Fish Oil
online.wsj.com - 2-1-10
Fish oil pills may be able to spare some young people with signs of mental illness from a progression into fully developed schizophrenia, according to a preliminary study of 81 patients in Austria.
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Physicians Must Treat 'Transplant Tourists'
abcnews.go.com - 2-1-10
Patients who travel to foreign countries for organ transplants may return with more problems than they left with -- and physicians here have a moral responsibility to treat them, researchers asserted in a transplant journal.
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Daily exercise? No, we're too busy, say Britons as two out of three fail to get 30 minutes a day
dailymail.co.uk - 2-1-10
Two out of three Britons don't get the recommended 30 minutes of physical activity a day, research has revealed
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Your Health: Too much sitting puts the body on idle
usatoday.com - 2-1-10
For decades, scientists have studied exercise. But until recently, they paid little attention to the opposite end of the activity spectrum: the many hours modern humans spend sitting, barely moving at all.
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