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Heart Attacks in Young Women Can Be Harder to Detect, Deadlier
- Health & Healing
- February 27, 2012
Heart disease can sneak up on young women in ways that standard cardiac tests can miss. Although chest pain or discomfort is the most common heart attack symptom, fatigue, nausea, shortness of breath and pain or numbness in the jaw, arms or back can also signal a blocked artery cutting off vital oxygen and nutrients
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New Hospital Cuisine: Dishes Made to Order
- Health & Healing
- February 22, 2012
Hospital food is getting a makeover, with some hospitals now offering luxury meal order programs. The Wall Street Journal, 2/21/2012
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C-sections aren’t always best for preterm babies
- Health & Healing
- February 17, 2012
NBC Nightly News, 2/9/2012
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Popular Lipsticks Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead
- Health & Healing
- February 17, 2012
U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers have detected lead in 400 brands of lipstick tested by the agency. At least two popular brands had amounts of the neurotoxin above the threshold the state of California considers safe in personal care products, which is 5 parts per million. “Millions of women get a little bit of
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Patient’s own stem cells help heal heart
- Health & Healing
- February 16, 2012
A patient's own heart cells can be used to regrow new heart tissue and help undo damage caused by a heart attack, according to early research published on Monday by scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. CNN Blogs, 2/13/2012
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Companies Not Telling the Whole Truth About Whole Grains
- Health & Healing
- February 9, 2012
Labels on "Whole Grain" and "Whole Wheat" products can often be deceiving, as it turns out none of these words have legal meaning. Many manufacturers label their foods with these terms without being held to any real standards. Nutritionists say that if a product boasts “Whole Grain,” you should make sure the first item in the
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Searching for Side Effects
- Health & Healing
- February 2, 2012
Two start-up companies, AdverseEvents Inc. and Clarimed LLC, have created databases that let consumers search millions of complaints filed with the FDA over prescription drugs and medical devices. So now you can find out how many other people have reported the side effects you're experiencing- and how your drug compares with similar drugs. You will
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Patriots’ Tom Brady Helps Mentor Find Kidney Donor
- Health & Healing
- January 30, 2012
New England Patriots' Quarterback Tom Brady distributed this flyer online to help find a kidney donor for retired football coach Tom Martinez through MatchingDonor.com, a nonprofit organization that helps interested living donors communicate their options. Nearly 90,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting a kidney transplant, and nearly 3,000 people are added to the United
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Patients’ Tremors Stopped After New Non-Invasive, Pain-Free Brain Surgery
- Health & Healing
- January 25, 2012
A procedure called MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery, a non-invasive, pain-free brain surgery, was recently used successfully to treat debilitating essential tremors in two women. Dr. Jeff Elias, associate professor of neurology at the University of Virginia, used ultrasound waves, focused to a specific point located by using an MRI machine, to treat the part of
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What if the doctor is wrong?
- Health & Healing
- January 22, 2012
Some cancers, asthma, and other conditions can be tricky to diagnose, often leading to incorrrect treatments. As evidence is mounting that second opinions can lead to significant changes in a patient's diagnosis, it is extremely important to get a second opinion… and, if the two opinions differ, go for a third. The Wall Street Journal,
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Chemical Forces Major Orange Juice Recall
- Health & Healing
- January 12, 2012
All overseas shipments are being carefully inspected after low levels of the harmful fungicide carbendazim were found in orange juice. The FDA says it will not pull orange juice off store shelves, but will prevent juice that contains traces of the chemical from entering the U.S. Good Morning America, 1/11/2012
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Hospital Staff Not Likely to Report Hospital Errors
- Health & Healing
- January 9, 2012
A new report released Friday by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that more than 80 percent of hospital errors go unreported by hospital employees. Family members and patients themselves may be able to help combat these kinds of hospital errors by becoming more involved and educated, and
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Physical Activity Linked to Better Academic Performance
- Health & Healing
- January 5, 2012
Dutch researchers, led by led by Amika Singh of the Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center's EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research in Amsterdam, recently reviewed previous studies from around the world on the relationship between physical activity and academic performance and found that the data "suggests there is a significant positive relationship between physical
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Red meat lovers have more kidney cancer
- Health & Healing
- December 31, 2011
In a large U.S. study, researchers found that middle-aged adults who ate the most red meat were 19 percent more likely to be diagnosed with kidney cancer than those who ate the least. However, "red meat is an important source for iron (and) it has protein," said Dr. Mohammed El-Faramawi, an epidemiologist from the University
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La. seniors show exercising is not an age thing
- Health & Healing
- December 31, 2011
New research is revealing some surprising numbers about just how effective exercise can be in warding off the aging process. CBS News correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook introduces us to one group of senior citizens, the ladies of the Louisiana Tigerettes, who are living proof of how effective exercise can be. The Tigerettes have won seven
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