Thursday, May 1, 2014

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Routine Housework May Help Stave Off Disability
WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Daily physical activity as light as pushing a shopping cart, vacuuming the house or strolling through a museum can dramatically reduce a person's risk of disability, a new study reports. People who spent ...
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Boston Hospital Fires Contractor After Data Breach
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Medical Center has fired a transcription service after a health care provider reported the records of about 15,000 patients were posted without password protection on the vendor's website used by physicians. The records contained ...
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Exercising in the heat? Cool down for better performance
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using cold water, ice baths or ice vests before or during a workout in the heat helps athletes perform better, according to a new review. One way to think about it, said study author Dr. Thijs M H Eijsvogels, would be that cooling ...
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Medical Xpress
Is Healthy Obesity a Myth?
WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Can someone be obese and healthy? A new study and several experts say no. An obese person who has normal blood pressure, normal cholesterol and normal blood sugar levels is still at risk for heart ...
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New York Times
Nail Salons' Drying Lamps Carry Small Cancer Risk
WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A typical salon manicure involves drying freshly painted nails under a lamp that emits ultraviolet-A (UV-A) rays -- a spectrum of light long linked to skin cancers. But a new study suggests that the average visit ...
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Endo to Pay $830 Million to Settle Claims Over Devices
Endo International said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $830 million to resolve legal claims from women who say they were injured by transvaginal mesh devices. Endo said the agreement would cover most of the mesh litigation brought against its ...
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UPI.com
Anti-appetite molecule released by fiber may be key to weight loss
The discovery of an "anti-appetite" molecule, which tells the brain to stop eating, makes a medication to "switch off" hunger a possibility in the future. By Alex Cukan | April 30, 2014 at 10:36 PM | Comments. 0. 6. 0. 0. Dietary fiber, found in most plants and ...
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Voice of America
Doctors Regrow Muscle in Severe Wounds for First Time
A team of U.S. doctors are reporting a remarkable medical breakthrough - the regrowth of muscle lost to a traumatic leg injury. The experiment was paid for by the Pentagon and carried out at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Physicians conducted ...
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UPI.com
Study: Laughter is the best medicine
Laughter can help lessen the damage the stress hormone cortisol can cause the body increasing the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease -- making laughter, the best medicine after all. By Alex Cukan | April 30, 2014 at 11:55 PM | ...
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Daily Mail
Vitamin D link to prostate cancer: Men with deficiency at greater risk of ...
Lack of vitamin D increases the chances of men at high risk of prostate cancer being diagnosed with an aggressive and potentially deadly form of the disease, a study has found. The link is so strong that scientists believe blood levels of the vitamin could ...
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New York Daily News
Ft. Worth veterinarian accused of secretly keeping 'euthanized' - Dallas News ...
A complaint against a long-time Fort Worth veterinarian alleges some animals that the owners believed were euthanized were kept alive. The accusers told investigators the vet wanted the animals for their blood. Fort Worth police and medical board ...
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New York Times
Steve Jobs, Beethoven knew walking increases creativity; Stanford study says ...
Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Beethoven knew walking boosted their creativity. Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, held walking meetings. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg keeps meetings on foot. Beethoven created sonatas and symphonies while strolling ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Cherry juice could fight insomnia
LSU researchers have found a pigment in tart cherry juice that extends sleep by an average of 84 minutes in older adults with insomnia. The results were presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nutrition and suggest Montmorency ...
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The Malay Mail Online
Abu Dhabi Health Authority: What to do to avoid Mers virus
Heating unpasteurised milk to 70 degrees Celsius and consuming 'well cooked' meats are some of the preventive measures recommended by the Health Authority Abu Dhabi (Haad) to combat the spread of the deadly Mers-Coronavirus (Mers-CoV).
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Medscape
Adding Estriol Reduces MS Relapse Rate
PHILADELPHIA — Adding the sex hormone estriol to glatiramer acetate (Copaxone, Teva Neuroscience), a drug indicated for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), results in a greater reduction in the 1-year relapse rate, although the ...
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New York Daily News
Florida woman set to transform 2-year-old's life from 1500 miles away
Christy Harding, of Jacksonville, Fla. will donate one of her kidneys to Arianna Moore in Pine City, Minn., after the sick 2-year-old's desperate mom put her plea on Facebook. BY Melanie Greenwood. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 8:16 ...
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The Pharma Letter
Vectura: Anoro Ellipta Launches in US, GBP2 Million GSK Milestone Triggered
-In August 2010, GSK entered into a license and an option to license agreement for certain of Vectura's dry powder formulation patents. -Under the terms of the license and option to license agreement, Vectura received an up-front payment of GBP10 million in ...
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CNN
Kids' Exposure To Real-Life Violence Has Decreased (STUDY)
The amount of violence and crime that children see in real life, including bullying and sexual victimization, dropped between 2003 and 2011, according to a new study. In the study of 2- to 17-year-olds, the researchers examined 50 types of violence that kids ...
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