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- Trans fats linked to pre-cancerous colon growths
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 10:45 AM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A high intake of trans fats could increase colon cancer risk, according to new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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- Flu shot does not cut risk of death in elderly
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 09:52 AM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While influenza vaccination does provide protection against catching the flu, it does not have a major impact on death in the elderly, contrary to what some studies have...[more]
- Severe stress in pregnancy may affect fetal growth
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 08:59 AM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who go through a traumatic event during or soon before pregnancy may be at increased risk of having an underweight baby, a large study suggests.
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- It’s back-to-school time for bedbugs
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 07:51 AM -0700
Laptops, textbooks and new jeans are among the must-haves for college students heading back to campus, but the most common back-to-school item may well be the blood-sucking bedbug.[more]
- Therapy curbs insomnia in dialysis patients
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 07:23 AM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A type of psychotherapy called cognitive-behavior therapy, or CBT, seems to reduce insomnia and fatigue and improve the overall quality of sleep in patients undergoing...[more]
- Blood pressure pill works well in kids, study shows
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 07:22 AM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The blood pressure drug valsartan (sold as Diovan) safely and effectively lowers blood pressure in youngsters aged 1 to 5 years who have high blood pressure (also called...[more]
- How to walk off the belly fat
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 06:11 AM -0700
Sure, you know walking is good exercise. But here's some?thing you might not realize: You can give your waistline (and other body parts) a serious trimming by tweaking that walk around the block....[more]
- Now hear this: Don't remove earwax
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-29-2008 05:48 AM -0700
The gooey, golden stuff that builds up inside your ears should stay there, according to newly released national guidelines on earwax removal.[more]
- Bassinet Sales Halted After Deaths of Two Infants
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-28-2008 09:00 PM -0700
In the first test of its powers under a sweeping product-safety law, the Consumer Product Safety Commission yesterday directed retailers to pull bassinets linked to the deaths of two infants off...[more]
- Eww or eureka? An ode to earwax
Category: Health
Publish Date: 08-28-2008 05:18 PM -0700
It’s easy to wax poetic about such august matters as cancer, heart disease and trauma. But we prefer the bit players on the medical stage – the unsung, largely forgettable conditions. Of...[more]
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