Articles filed under Health
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Alternate laser eye surgery gains convertsOct 31, 2021 9:30 pm - Years of refinement have made laser eye surgery better, but patients still face risks. When Cindy Duong decided to pitch her contact lenses and have surgery in 2006 to ...
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Your healthOct 31, 2021 9:29 pm - Now hear this Can you listen to your voice mail in one ear while your co-worker talks in the other? If so, credit your genes. Researchers with the National Institutes of...
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Are you a chocoholic? Addiction isn't physicalOct 31, 2021 9:25 pm - Resistance is futile. The more we try to fight off a craving for chocolate, the more our desire for it grows, a British researcher said. But chocoholics can take heart t...
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'Nothing adds up'Oct 31, 2021 9:27 pm - A few hours before she died this summer at the age of 36, Jolee Mohr lay in a Chicago hospital so swollen by internal bleeding and her failing kidneys that her husband d...
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Health bulletinOct 31, 2021 9:25 pm - Blood pressure rising among American kids Blood pressure levels among American children are on the rise, an alarming trend linked to climbing obesity rates that reverse...
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Companies link health costs to employee's risk factorsOct 31, 2021 8:45 pm - CINCINNATI -- First they tried nudging. Now, as insurance costs climb, companies are penalizing workers who have high health risks such as obesity and high blood pressur...
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Near-tripling of reported deaths and drug reactionsOct 31, 2021 8:35 pm - Reports of dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005, an analysis of U.S. drug data found. The number of deaths a...
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Health bulletin: Cutting doctors' hours doesn't help patients muchOct 31, 2021 8:31 pm - Cutting doctors' hours doesn't help patients much Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two l...
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Old news: Many factors contribute to longer life spansOct 31, 2021 8:29 pm - Humans are living longer than ever before, and Caleb Finch, professor of gerontology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California, has spent his scie...
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Fertility clinics may overuse costly techniquesOct 31, 2021 8:30 pm - Fertility clinics are overusing a laboratory technique and costing infertile couples and some insurers hundreds of extra dollars, a new study suggests. At issue is a pro...