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- Are gender differences hard-wired?
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-20-2008 06:53 AM -0700
Even though I'm a psychologist who specializes in early education, it took having kids to make me realize that sex differences aren't just the stuff of Brady Bunch reruns. While 18 months is old...[more]
- Speed diet: Women using ADD drugs to get thin
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-20-2008 06:37 AM -0700
A growing number of women in Hollywood are abusing the ADD drug Adderall in their quest to be thin. But along with the rapid weight loss, they may be gaining a dangerous addiction.[more]
- Massachusetts law spurs rise in health coverage
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-20-2008 05:16 AM -0700
BOSTON (Reuters) - Nearly half a million people obtained health insurance in the two years since Massachusetts enacted a pioneering health-care law, officials said on Tuesday, putting the state...[more]
- Consumers face rising medical debt: survey
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-20-2008 05:14 AM -0700
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. adults are struggling to pay their medical bills, tapping into savings accounts, home equity and credit cards to cover health care costs, according...[more]
- Alexander technique does help back pain: study
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-20-2008 12:29 AM -0700
LONDON (Reuters) - Chronic back pain can be eased by teaching the Alexander technique, an alternative therapy involving learning better posture, British researchers said on Wednesday.
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- Man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 05:20 PM -0700
A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to...[more]
- Stem cell test to help treat bowel cancer
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 05:18 PM -0700
LONDON (Reuters) - Stem cell scientists have developed a new and more accurate way of spotting aggressive forms of bowel cancer, allowing for tailored treatment that should improve patients'...[more]
- Big-mugged men are meaner, study says
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 04:53 PM -0700
Men with big mugs are more aggressive, a new study of hockey players suggests.[more]
- Study probes water-arsenic-diabetes link
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 04:33 PM -0700
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- California fines 18 hospitals for shoddy care
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-19-2008 03:31 PM -0700
Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths.[more]
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