Articles filed under Health
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Study ties antibiotic use in pregnancy with birth defectsNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and birth defects. Reassuringly, the mos...
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Hospital fined $150,000 in wrong-site surgeryNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Rhode Island health officials have fined a hospital $150,000 and ordered it to install video cameras in its operating rooms after it had its fifth wrong-site surgery sin...
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Program will monitor doctors' hand-washingNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Be sure to wash up, Maryland doctors and nurses. You're being watched. State officials are creating teams of staff members at hospitals around the state to secretly moni...
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Flu symptoms that could signal an emergencyNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - The American College of Emergency Physicians developed these guidelines for people 18 and older who think they might have the flu. Do you have a fever or feel feverish a...
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Premature births worsen U.S. infant death rateNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a go...
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Athlete, heal thyself! Platelet therapy helps athletes and older folksNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - As an offensive lineman for the Purdue Boilermakers, Eric Hedstrom is used to getting up after being knocked down - but this is getting ridiculous. Hedstrom lost most of...
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Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancerNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health speciali...
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Low cholesterol may prevent some prostate cancersNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests. One stu...
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Nursing home boss takes novel tack in finding ways to help residentsNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - The night that Dave Stieglitz fell asleep on the job, he exchanged his office wear for a T-shirt and shorts and climbed into bed at the Elgin nursing home where he works...
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Finish eating before you read thisNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - It's been a while since we've checked in on our favorite guilty pleasure: the Center for Science in the Public Interest's statistics. It's a rundown of nutritional horro...