Monday, September 19, 2011

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Laser for varicose veins no better than surgery
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Laser therapy doesn't appear to outshine the standard surgery to treat severe varicose veins, new research suggests. In the largest study so far to compare the two procedures, doctors found no significant differences in the ...
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Gilead: Second trial of 4-drug AIDS pill meets goal
Reuters
(Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc's four-drug experimental HIV pill worked as well as a regimen containing protease inhibitor Reyataz in the second pivotal trial of the drug, the company said on Monday. Although the trial succeeded, it did not show the ...
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Child abuse increased as economy crashed, study shows
msnbc.com
By Frederik Joelving As the US economy began to tank, the number of abused kids landing in the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study shows. How on earth did Willow the cat, who went missing five years ago, get from Colorado to New ...
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FDA confirms Listeria outbreak is linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado farm
Washington Post
Hyoung Chang/AP - Bill Sackett looks at cantaloupes that are not subject to the recent recall at his Rocky Ford, Colo., farm market. Jensen Farms in Holly, Colo., about a hundred miles from Rocky Ford, has issued a recall of cantaloupe following a ...
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Cancer Society report says NY weak against smoking
Wall Street Journal
AP ALBANY, NY — New York state collected $10 billion in tobacco taxes during the last six years but spent just 4 percent of it to stop smoking in what cancer-fighting groups called counterproductive budgeting and a broken promise. ...
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Crane Falls on Louisiana Nursing Home Lobby
Fox News
| AP SHREVEPORT, La. – A construction crane toppled into the lobby of a Louisiana retirement home on Monday, but missed patients' rooms and no residents were injured, officials said. One employee was taken to the hospital to be checked for possible ...
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Qualitest recalls birth control pills: FDA
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Qualitest Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling several lots of birth control pills because of a packaging error that could leave women at risk for unplanned pregnancy, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. ...
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Efforts beginning now to prevent flu later
Gainesville Sun
Albert Howard, 80, gets a flu shot by Belinda Scott at the Alachua County Health Department in Gainesville, Fla., on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. By Jackie Alexander Although flu season is months away, doctors say it's time to get vaccinated. ...
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Whooping cough vaccination fades in three years
USA Today
ATLANTA – A preliminary study suggests the vaccine against whooping cough falters after only about three years, adding support to school rules requiring kids to get the vaccination periodically. Toby Talbot, AP Kids vaccinated more recently were well ...
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Brain Activity Linked to Obesity
OzarksFirst.com
Brain scans indicate that when thin people are shown pictures of high calorie food, parts of the brain involved in impulse control light up, according to researchers at Yale and the University of Southern California. Overweight people showed less brain ...
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Diabetes Puts People at Risk for Dementia, Study Finds
ABC News
By CARRIE GANN, ABC News Medical Unit Scientists have found that people with diabetes are more likely to develop dementia. (Getty Images) People with diabetes may be at an increased risk of developing dementia, a new study finds. ...
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Five from Marblehead walk for Jimmy Fund
Boston Globe
The "Humor Us Healers" from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber clowns) near the finish line. On Sept. 18, five residents from Marblehead walked up to 26.2 miles along the historic route of the Boston Marathon in the 23rd annual Boston Marathon ...
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Another measles case confirmed in Wis.
Chicago Tribune
AP The Greendale Health Department confirms a new case of measles in an infant too young to be vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. The child has not been hospitalized. The baby is believed to have contracted measles from a Milwaukee child ...
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More Transparency, Better Health Care
Wall Street Journal
Fantasy baseball managers have far more data to evaluate players for their teams than patients and referring doctors have in matters affecting life and death. By GEORGE SHULTZ, As the debate over how best to reform our wasteful health-care system ...
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LA gives home test kits for chlamydia, gonorrhea
Press-Enterprise
By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER AP South Los Angeles girls and women looking for discreet sexually transmitted disease testing will be able to visit high-tech kiosks to get free home-testing kits as part of an innovative program that aims to cut costs. ...
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Red Cross needs you! Volunteer orientation Wed, Sept 28
WGMD Radio
The Red Cross needs your help – as a volunteer to help victims of fires, floods, hurricanes and other disasters. As Hurricane Irene bore down on Delmarva, many people evacuated their homes and stayed in one of the shelters. Those shelters were set up ...
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New Data on Amgen's Prolia
Zacks.com
Amgen (AMGN - Analyst Report) recently presented new long-term data on Prolia (denosumab). Results from a phase II study extension showed that postmenopausal women with low bone mass or osteoporosis undergoing treatment with Prolia for up to eight ...
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Mississippi Health Officials report nine New West Nile Virus cases
WDAM-TV
Today the Mississippi State Department of Health reports nine new human West Nile virus cases in Forrest, Hinds, Jasper, Jones, Lincoln, Madison (3), and Rankin counties, bringing the state's total to 33 for 2011. So far this year, cases have been ...
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Study looks at who remains uninsured in Mass.
Boston Globe (blog)
By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff Much of the discussion around the 2006 Massachusetts health law has focused on how far the state has come in providing coverage for the uninsured. Dr. Rachel Nardin, a neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance and chair ...
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Mother with uterus didelphys, or two uteruses, has twins — one baby from each
Tampabay.com
By Letitia Stein, Times Staff Writer Twins Nathan and Natalie Barbosa made the record books with their recent arrival at Morton Plant Hospital. They came healthy and howling, with chipmunk cheeks and tufts of dark hair. But their birth was anything but ...
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Gene therapy shows promise in reducing HIV
Reuters
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - An early stage trial of Sangamo BioSciences Inc's HIV treatment found that the gene therapy reduced levels of the virus and even eliminated it in one patient with a naturally occurring gene mutation. ...
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Sperm bank says no to donors with red hair
CBS News
That's what world's largest sperm bank is telling potential donors who have red hair. The bank's director told the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet that there simply wasn't much demand for sperm from red-headed men, the Telegraph reported. ...
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Federal School Lunch Proposal Has Colorado Politicians Playing Hot Potato
Huffington Post
A federal proposal to alter the makeup of school lunches has a few of Colorado's political representatives playing hot potato. Senator Mark Udall fears the proposal, which aims to reduce starchy vegetable servings to one cup weekly, will unfairly ...
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Stress and aggressive breast cancer go together, study finds
Los Angeles Times
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago wondered about this. After all, the components of what experts call "psychosocial stress" – including fear, anxiety and isolation – could take a toll on the autonomic nervous system, ...
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Los Angeles Times
Surgeons light up cancer cells in attempt to cut relapses
The Guardian
A group of women with ovarian tumours have become the first in the world to have surgery using a procedure that makes cancer light up in the body. Operations were performed on 10 women as part of the first phase of a clinical trial to evaluate the ...
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Movember expected to get a boost with Layton legacy
Ottawa Citizen
By Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen September 19, 2011 6:57 PM Organizers of Movember expect the death of NDP leader Jack Layton will inspire more men than ever to join the popular moustache-growing movement. Organizers of Movember expect the death ...
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Drug deaths outnumber traffic fatalities in US: LA Times
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Drug-related deaths outnumber traffic fatalities in the US, the Los Angeles Times said Sunday. According to research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug consumption killed 37485 people in the US in 2009, more than the 36284 who ...
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Trinity withdraws support from Komen Race for the Cure
LubbockOnline.com
Trinity Christian School will no longer support the Lubbock Area Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Race for the Cure because of some Komen affiliates' association with Planned Parenthood. National and local Komen officials emphasize that no funds raised ...
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Cigarette Prices Should Rise 75%, Japan's Health Minister Says
Bloomberg
By Kanoko Matsuyama and Shunichi Ozasa - Mon Sep 19 16:01:00 GMT 2011 Tobacco taxes in Japan should be raised until the average price for a pack of cigarettes is about 700 yen, or 75 percent more than the present level, to cut medical costs, ...
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Apples, pears may reduce stroke risk
UPI.com
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Nutritionists advise eating fruit with bright colors but Dutch researchers say fruit and vegetables with white flesh may do more to reduce stroke risk. Lead author Linda M. Oude Griep, a postdoctoral fellow in ...
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Blogs15 new results for health
 
Health Problems Reportedly Emerge Near Gas Fields, Science Lags ...
By The Huffington Post News Team
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublicaOn a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted ...
Energy on Huffington Post
On the Radar: U.N. health meeting; Davis hearing; home-invasion ...
By lendonsan
Three things you need to know today. U.N. health meeting: For only the second time in the history of the United Nations, the General Assembly will hold a meeting on a health issue. The body convenes in New York on Monday to discuss ...
This Just In
Individuals paying for health insurance in New Mexico gear up for ...
By Mikhail Zinshteyn
Self-employed New Mexicans relying on Blue Cross Blue Shield health care services are due to incur a ten percent increase on premiums paid less than a year.
New Mexico Independent
NCSU News :: NC State News and Information » Health-Based ...
By Matt Shipman
Researchers from North Carolina State University are proposing a health-based approach to identifying groups at high risk of genocide, in a first-of-its-kind attempt to target international efforts to stop these mass killings before they start. ...
NCSU News :: NC State News and...
Obama Debt Plan Would Fix $14 Billion Health Care Law Glitch
By The Huffington Post News Team
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's new deficit plan would fix a $14 billion glitch in his health care law. Unless the problem gets fixed, a million or more middle-class early retirees could get nearly free Medicaid coverage meant for the ...
Barack Obama on Huffington Post
Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women « CBS Boston
By mcrawford42
Join more than 7500 runners and walkers at the 35th Annual Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women! Enter below for your chance to win a Prize Pack inlcuding pair of New Balance sneakers and Race Registration! The 35th [...] News, Sports ...
CBS Boston
Capitol Confidential » DC 37 pushes OTB health bill
By Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau
NYC OTB retirees lost health coverage as an unintended consequence of the corporation's closure, in which more than 1000 active workers also lost their jobs. Health insurance for approximately 900 NYC OTB retirees would be covered by ...
Capitol Confidential
Recession Tied to Rise in Child Abuse Injuries - Health News ...
By nalonsospc
By Denise MannHealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) — The stress of unemployment, foreclosures and putting food on the table may have helped drive a spike up in shaken baby syndrome and other types of abusive ...
Health News
Vt. governor picks panel for single-payer health plan
By Healthcare-NOW!
From Boston.com - MONTPELIER - A health care policy specialist will lead Vermont's Green Mountain Care board, the panel that will be responsible for.
Healthcare-NOW!
Sharon D'Agostino: Celebrating Partnerships That Improve Health ...
By Sharon D’Agostino
At the end of this month, the seven billionth person will be born--that's a lot of mothers and children. To expand awareness of maternal and infant needs, Johnson & Johnson and the AOL/Huffington Post Media Group will collaborate and ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Health officials: West Nile virus still likely, so take precautions
By tmartinez
With school back in session and fall just around the corner, the thought of mosquito bites might not be on many people's minds. But health officials w...
Latest Headlines
Euro RSCG Introduces Health Buzz Group - PRNewser
By Tonya Garcia
Euro RSCG Worldwide PR has launched the Health Buzz Group, which aims to make the most of small-budget campaigns for companies in the pharmaceutical, OTC, wellness, and other healthcare areas. Work will focus on events, media ...
PRNewser
US Department of Health official explains 'health literacy' to Missouri ...
By Mike Lear
The Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has spoken to a Missouri audience about the importance of health literacy, or the concept of understanding one's medical condition and related issues ...
Missourinet
The Whole9 Health Equation | Whole9 | Let us change your life.
By Melissa @ Whole9
We're calling this graphical representation of an individual's overall health "The Whole9 Health Equation" (at least until we have a stroke of genius and come up with something clever-er). Yes, it is simplified – Dallas doesn't like complex math ...
Whole9 | Let us change your life.
Hospital ER Visits Up Since Mass Health Reform Enacted | John ...
By John Goodman
To determine whether any changes in ED utilization in Massachusetts reflected the effect of Massachusetts' reform or were merely representative of broader.
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog

Video5 new results for health
 
Scrapyard blaze prompts health concerns
3 min
A scrapyard inferno is raising more concerns about recent industrial fires in Buffalo. Should Erie County do more to clear the air?
youtube.com
Gov. Chaffee Signs Health Coverage Assistance Law
22 sec
Gov. Chaffee Signs Off on a Healthcare Coverage Assistance Law. He created a group called the Rhode Island Health Benefits ...
youtube.com
Aurora Health Care Core Valve Patient Shares Story
6 min
We talked with Illinois residents, Richard Ehlers, who participated in a life-changing cardiac clinical trial at Aurora St. Luke's ...
youtube.com
MIRGI , HEALTH EDUCATION , INFECTION CONTROL ...
14 min
infectioncontrolsociety.org Health awareness programme by ICSP
youtube.com
Health & The Economy
Many investors look at health care as an expense, but it's really an investment in the people and their well being and can ...
finance.yahoo.com


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