Articles filed under Health
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Your Health: Can the Pill change a woman's taste in men?Apr 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Pill perception Can the Pill change women's taste in men? A study by the University of Sheffield says that women taking the oral contraceptive drug had a great...
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Docs take increasingly darker view of tanning bedsApr 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Dermatologists have been making the case for more than a decade that there is no such thing as a good, or safe, suntan. Yet studies suggest that nearly a third of Americ...
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New hope for people with memory loss from brain injuriesApr 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Elianne Parent was on her way to celebrate her 18th birthday with friends when a drunken driver smashed into their car. She suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and ...
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More doctors opt for costlier, riskier spinal surgeryApr 11, 2010 11:00 pm - A study of Medicare patients shows that costlier, more complex spinal fusion surgeries are on the rise - and sometimes done unnecessarily - for a common lower back condi...
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Eating five times a day, and losing weightApr 11, 2010 11:00 pm - The Fittest Loser competitors were ready - though apprehensive - for the workouts. They were ready for the weigh-ins and the examinations and the exhaustion. They were n...
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Running the way nature intended can have its benefitsApr 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Barefoot guru Hank Campbell insists that he is not opposed to running shoes. "They have their place," said Campbell, one of the top road runners in the Tampa Bay area in...
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Centegra to open breast center in Crystal LakeApr 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Centegra Health System announced Thursday that a $500,000 gift will help open a new breast care center in Crystal Lake. The Centegra Gavers Breast Center will offer pati...
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In down economy, older moms' births still upApr 05, 2010 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- U.S. births fell in 2008, probably because of the recession, updated government figures confirm. The one exception to the trend was the birth rate among women...
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Technologies that let patients consult doctors online spreading rapidlyApr 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Donita Gano woke up one Sunday morning and knew she had a problem. The 59-year-old public-health nurse had fallen and gashed her elbow about 10 days previously, and now ...
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Why doctors need a checklistApr 04, 2010 11:00 pm - As the global rates of surgery grew, so did the damage: A million patients a year died during medical procedures and more than 7 million were left disabled. The World He...