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Passive smoking causes irreversible damage to kids' arteries LONDON (Reuters) - Exposure to second-hand smoke in childhood causes irreversible damage to children's arteries - increasing their risk of heart attacks or strokes when they grow up, according to a large international study published on Wednesday.
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Medical marijuana dispensary seeks new site The owners of a proposed medical marijuana dispensary on Boston's busy Boylston Street said Tuesday they are considering an alternative location, after facing a barrage of criticism from city officials and nearby residents and businesses about their plan to ...
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Hospital antibiotic use can put patients at risk, study says Doctors in some hospitals prescribe up to three times as many antibiotics as doctors at other hospitals, putting patients at greater risk for deadly superbug infections, according to a federal study released Tuesday. In addition, about one-third of the time, ...
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| Moving out of poverty linked to kids' mental health NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Moving out of impoverished neighborhoods has different effects on the mental health of boys compared to girls, and those repercussions need to be better understood before tinkering with housing policy, according to a new ...
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Health Law Provides No Guarantees Of Access To Midwives, Birthing Centers Insurance coverage for maternity care is required in most individual and small group plans under the federal health law, extendingsuch coverage to plans where it used to be rare. But for women who are interested in services provided by midwives and ...
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Last-Ditch Chemo May Mean Death in the ICU Patients with terminal cancer who fight to the very end, taking debilitating chemotherapy treatments in the last months of life, often end up dying in intensive care, a new study shows. Although most cancer patients say they'd like to die peacefully and painlessly ...
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| Bristol-Myers Plans Late-Stage Tests on Yervoy as Lung-Cancer Treatment It was hard to tell the real winners from those riding market momentum Tuesday, but Bristol-Myers Squibb seemed to stand apart from the pack as the venerable drug maker hit a 52-week high after saying it was going ahead with one of its medications on ...
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Healthy school lunch standards don't waste vegetables When the federal government imposed updated standards for school lunches at the beginning of the 2012 school year, many critics claimed that the new requirement for kids to take at least one vegetable or fruit serving would just be a waste of money leading ...
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Meat, Dairy May Be As Detrimental To Your Health As Smoking Cigarettes ... Salvatore Caruso, 108, is the second oldest man in Italy. Like many others in the small Italian town of Molochio, with one of the highest prevalence of centenarians in the world, Salvatore maintained a low-protein, plant-based diet for the majority of his life, but ...
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Studies: Long-Lasting Drug Prevents HIV Infection in Monkeys, Implications for ... WASHINGTON — In what's being hailed as a breakthrough in HIV prevention, researchers have developed a slow-release version of an antiretroviral medication that offers long-lasting protection against the AIDS virus. Injections of long-lasting AIDS drugs ...
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Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of 'How We Die,' dead at 83 March 4 (Reuters) - Dr. Sherwin Nuland, the author of the bestseller "How We Die," which talks candidly about how life ends in disease and old age, has died at the age of 83, his daughter said on Tuesday. Nuland died Monday of prostate cancer at his home ...
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NYC's free nicotine patch and gum helped 300000 smokers quit NEW YORK -- A New York woman whose tobacco use caused the amputations of her foot, leg and some fingers, says the city smoking cessation program helped her quit. The woman, only identified as Marie, said she was diagnosed in her early 40s with a ...
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New Study Links Sleep Apnea, CPAP Therapy to Increased Risk of Pneumonia Suffering from the common sleep disorder, sleep apnea, can increase the risk of pneumonia, according to a new study from Taiwan. New Study Links Sleep Apnea, CPAP Therapy to Increased Risk of Pneumonia. View Full Image. Larry & Teddy Page/Flickr
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Home births still rising, driven by white moms ATLANTA — Home births have risen to their highest level in about four decades but are still only a fraction of all births, according to a new government report released Tuesday. A little more than 1 percent of U.S. births occur at home, the Centers for Disease ...
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TV spots pitch medical marijuana Late-night TV, which has enticed us with hard-sell offers for the amazing Ginsu knife and equally incredible hair loss remedies, now has another offer some can't refuse: a way to get medical marijuana. Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, has agreed ...
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Hangovers don't delay next drinking session, study finds We've all been there; awoken from a boozy night and, while nursing a thunderous headache or resisting the urge to vomit, proclaimed: "I am never drinking again". But do hangovers keep us sober for longer, or send us back to the bar for a hair of the dog?
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LA County Officials Told Inspectors To Cut Short Nursing Home Probes Facing a backlog of hundreds of health and safety complaints about nursing homes, Los Angeles County public health officials told inspectors to close cases without fully investigating them, according to internal documents and interviews. The effort — known ...
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If He's Sexually Aggressive In Bars, It's Not Because He's Drunk We used to think they behaved badly because they were drunk. Now we know they were just behaving badly. Credit iStockphoto. Originally published on Mon March 3, 2014 7:06 pm. Young women are often the targets of aggression when they're out in bars, ...
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Doctors call for healthcare reforms in prisons Kevin Renaud, an electrian for Guarantee Electric, replaces a light bulb inside of a prison cell at the old St. Louis County Corrections facility in Chesterfield, MO. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt). | License Photo. PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 3 (UPI) -- In a new study, ...
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Balanced Diet During Pregnancy May Lower Risk of Preterm Delivery TUESDAY, March 4, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Expectant mothers are often told to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, and a new study adds to evidence that a healthy diet is linked to a reduced risk of premature birth. Researchers analyzed data gathered from ...
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WHO to propose lower recommended daily limit for sugar intake The World Health Organization is expected to propose lowering its official recommended daily limit for sugar consumption on Wednesday, a move that is likely to put pressure on Canada to adopt a threshold of its own. The WHO currently recommends people ...
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Justina Pelletier's family wins right to take her back to preferred doctors The ailing teenager at the center of an interstate custody battle is going back under the care of Tufts Medical Center, where she was being treated until another Boston hospital made a different diagnosis and urged child protection officials to take her away ...
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