Articles filed under Health
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Your Health: 'Warm friends' taken literallySep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Warm friends Meeting a new acquaintance for coffee might nudge the friendship along in more than one way - as long as you don't add ice. In a study of 41 volunteers, p...
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We're major slouches when it comes to taking care of our backsSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - So what is it now, you medical experts? We need to learn how to sit? Oh, puhleeze. We've been doing it all our lives. For many, sitting for eight hours straight is pivot...
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Ready for ragweed season? How you can fight that pollen allergySep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - It's ragweed season, and for people with this pollen allergy, that means miserable symptoms such as sneezing, a runny or stuffy nose, trouble sleeping, asthma attacks, a...
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Scientists try to detect early ovarian cancerSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - A screening system in development at the University of Arizona is expected to provide a breakthrough in the early detection of ovarian cancer. By using holograms and mer...
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What's the cause of the health-care crisis? Look in the mirrorSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the emotional topics of discussion today is health care and Democrats and Republicans both have presented plans. However, one of my mentors, Andrew Weil, M.D., be...
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Doctors worry meningitis vaccination will get lost in swine flu shuffleSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Fever, chills, vomiting: It starts like a stomach bug or the flu. But bacterial meningitis can go on to kill terrifyingly fast - one of the few infections in the U.S. wh...
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New center researches, treats brain tumorsSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Patients with the disease that killed Sen. Edward Kennedy are one focus of the new Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute in Chicago. The institute on Northwestern Universit...
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How to create fat-fighting communitiesSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Where you live matters when it comes to children's waistlines, says a report that finds lots of options localities could and should use to fight child obesity - from eas...
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Novartis: 1-dose swine flu vaccine a possibilitySep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - BARCELONA, Spain -- A third company signaled Thursday that its swine flu vaccine may protect people with just one shot instead of two -- another hopeful sign for flu pre...
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On swine flu, just the facts, pleaseAug 31, 2009 11:00 pm - Someday soon, it's very likely the place where you work or where your kids go to school will have an outbreak of H1N1 flu. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Pr...