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Chipotle goes GMO-free in first for US fast-food sector (Reuters) - Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Monday said the 46 ingredients used in its roughly 1,800 restaurants were now free of genetically modified organisms, becoming the first major U.S.
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US Lowers Recommended Fluoride Levels in Drinking Water – WebMD We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. {shareThisContent}. {fontSizerContent}.
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Children Who Watch TV an Hour a Day Likely to Become Overweight Spending at least an hour per day watching TV increases a child's likelihood of becoming overweight by 60 percent. By Julie Sabino julie.
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One hour of daily TV linked to child obesity A study found that just one hour of television-watching a day can have an effect on a child's weight, and put that child at a greater risk for becoming obese.
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PAS: Even One Hour of TV a Day Ups Childhood Obesity Risk Watching television, even for just an hour a day, may boost the risk that young children will be overweight or obese, according to new research.
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US updates water fluoridation guideline for the first time in 53 years More than 50 years after issuing its previous guideline, the government on Monday recommended that drinking water contain .7 milligrams of fluoride per liter.
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Study: More than 1 hour of TV/day equals obese kids UNDATED (WKRC) -- Watching as little as an hour of television a day can significantly increase a child's obesity risks. A pediatricians' group followed more than 11,000 kindergartners and first graders.
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Human Protection Considered as H5N2 Avian Flu Spreads The highly contagious avian flu H5N2 is spreading rapidly in some parts of the midwestern United States. As a precaution, farm workers are being offered antiviral medication as a preventative measure.
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Bird flu spreads north, dooming millions of chickens and turkeys Creeping north with the spring migration of waterfowl, a highly contagious form of bird flu visited Missouri and Kansas before dooming millions of hens recently at an Iowa egg facility.
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Federal health agency lowers recommendation for water fluoridation levels The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now recommends 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water. Michael Blann File photo.
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UPDATE 2-Medtronic agrees to US FDA consent decree on drug pump (Adds details of consent decree, background). April 27 (Reuters) - Medtronic Plc has agreed to resolve U.S. regulators' allegations it violated quality standards for making its SynchroMed implantable drug pump, which delivers medications to cancer patients ...
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Smiley faces help kids eat healthy When researchers label healthy foods with a grin, kids choose them more often in the cafeteria. By: Mary Jo DiLonardo. Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:41 AM.
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Farmers Offered Preventive Bird Flu Medication Approximately 300 people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota should begin taking an antiviral medication after being exposed to a strain of bird flu, U.S.
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Smiley Faces May Help Kids Eat More Health Food Says Study Based on a latest study, smileys and happy meals of healthy foods have increased better food selection among young students. In the photo, USDA's FNS has administered several programs to provide healthy food to children like the Fresh Fruit and ...
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Fluoride levels lowered nationwide There will soon be less fluoride in tap water nationwide. The federal government is lowering the recommended amount. Experts say kids have h… File photo.
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Smiley Faces Make Healthy Food More Appealing for Kids The findings of a new study have revealed how creating smiley faces on health foods and meals can encourage kids to have more of these nutritious meals.
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US Lowers Recommended Fluoride Levels in Drinking Water MONDAY, April 27, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. government has decreased its recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in a half-century, to prevent staining of tooth enamel caused by overexposure to fluoride.
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Will the new surgeon Dr. Vivek Murthy be the new and improved Dr. Oz? Dr. Oz? For one too many years, Americans have been mesmerized by Dr. Oz appearing on television, discussing health issues. Dr. Mehmet Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon, and appointed as the Vice Chairman of the department of surgery at the Columbia ...
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Smileys make kids eat more healthy food Labelling healthy foods with smiley faces and offering small prizes for buying nutritious items can make kids purchase more of such foods and eat them too, suggests a new research.
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FDA puts limits on Medtronic infusion pump manufacturing and sales The Food and Drug Administration says Medtronic has failed to fix manufacturing problems related to its Synchromed II drug pump. hide.
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Smiley faces make healthy food 'more appealing' to kids Smiley faces help kids to eat more nutritious meals. As odd as it sounds, that is the message of new research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Diego, CA.
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Happy Meals Of Healthy Foods - A Pilot Program A paper presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Diego says that because poor food choices in school cafeterias are a risk factor for childhood obesity, students will make better choices if healthy foods are labeled with ...
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Can Dr. Vivek Murthy Replace Dr. Oz? As we all know science is developing day by day, we live in a time where for every disease there is a cure and when it comes to medical innovation we live in wondrous times.
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Research confirms medical phenomenon called 'chemo brain' Some cancer survivors report feeling like they can't concentrate after taking chemotherapy drugs, a condition called chemo brain.
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Can The New Surgeon General Become The Next Dr. Oz? When it comes to medical innovation, we live in wondrous times. Advances are being made on a seemingly daily basis. New medical technologies are being invented that can detect disease at early stages.
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Why Girls With Autism Are Diagnosed Later Than Boys A new study looking at gender differences among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show that girls have different, less obvious symptoms compared to boys, which could be why they are generally diagnosed later.
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One hour of TV a day linked to childhood obesity A recent study revealed that childhood obesity is tightly linked to children watching at least 60 minutes of television a day. Researchers found that kindergarteners and first-graders who are allowed to watch up to or over an hour of television a day are more ...
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HIV self-testing kit goes on sale in UK The BioSure HIV Self Test kit has just gone on sale in the UK. Photograph: BioSure/PA. Press Association. Monday 27 April 2015 13.32 EDT Last modified on Monday 27 April 2015 13.38 EDT.
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UBC research looks at effects of 'chemo brain' Partway through her treatment for breast cancer, Marita Luk noticed she was starting to forget things. "I had to write down almost everything I was doing … things like 'Don't forget your pills'," she said.
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FDA: Medtronic Must Stop Most Sales of Synchromed Drug Pumps The Food and Drug Administration says Medtronic must stop most sales of its implantable drug pumps after years of uncorrected problems.
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U.S. lowers fluoride in water; too much causing splotchy teeth Tianna Swisher, a student at Liberty Valley Elementary School in Danville, Pa., attempts to drink from the water fountain at Montour Preserve near Washingtonville, Pa.
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US health officials cut back fluoride dosage advice for tap water Since 1962, the U.S. Public Health Service has recommended that communities fluoridate their water with between 0.7 milligrams per liter and 1.2 mg/L, based on an area's outdoor temperature.
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Medtronic to halt manufacture of pain drug pump -US regulators (Reuters) - Medtronic Plc has agreed to stop manufacturing and distributing its SynchroMed implantable drug pump, U.S. regulators said on Monday, a step toward resolving allegations that the company violated quality standards with the device which ...
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An hour of daily TV linked to childhood obesity Linking daily TV viewing to childhood obesity, a new study has said that children who spend at least an hour daily watching television are more exposed to the risk of getting overweight or obese than those who do not spend so much time before the TV.
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U.S. dropping level of fluoride in water Sorry, but you need to be logged in to share stories via e-mail. This helps us prevent abuse of our e-mail system. Don't have a Spokesman.
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UPDATE 3-Medtronic to halt manufacture of pain drug pump -US regulators (New throughout, adds details on product sales). By Susan Kelly. April 27 (Reuters) - Medtronic Plc has agreed to stop manufacturing and distributing its SynchroMed implantable drug pump, U.S.
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Officials reduce recommended levels of drinking water fluoride KANSAS CITY, Mo. —For the first time in 50 years, the federal government has issued new regulations about how much fluoride members of the public should consume.
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Diet swap experiment reveals junk food's harm to gut A two-week diet swap experiment hints at just how damaging a Western diet might be to our guts. Researchers asked people to switch diets for two weeks - 20 US volunteers moved to a low-fat, high-fibre diet while 20 volunteers from rural Africa were asked to ...
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Watching TV An Hour A Day Increases Risk For Becoming Obese: Study Children who spend at least four hours a day watching television are more predisposed to becoming overweight or obese than those who spend less time, as per HNGN.
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Recommended Fluoride Levels In Water Reduced After 50 Years The Department of Health and Human Services recommends communities lower the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water by up to 42 percent.
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US calls for less flouride in tap water to help kids' teeth NEW YORK -- The government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water because some kids are getting too much, causing white splotches on their teeth.
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New class of drug shows promise for treating high cholesterol One in six American adults lives with high cholesterol, and millions have trouble getting it under control, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Is your snoring a health hazard? How to find out A loud snorer can wake up a whole household without having a clue. "There's always a certain level of denial," says Kathleen Bennett, a Cincinnati dentist who specializes in treating sleep breathing problems.
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New Drug Class Slashes 'Bad' Cholesterol, Review Finds MONDAY, April 27, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A new class of cholesterol drug could sharply cut "bad" LDL cholesterol in people who don't fare well on commonly used cholesterol-lowering medications called statins, a new research review confirms.
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First home HIV test goes on sale in Britain Although sexual health has become less of a taboo subject, ensuring that people get tested for STDs remains a big issue. The NHS now offers DIY kits for those worried they might have caught something from a partner and don't want to get tested by a doctor, ...
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Share "Benefits of HPV vaccine can be seen in..." Years before the HPV vaccine prevents women from getting cervical cancer, it protects them against genital warts and cervical dysplasia, new research suggests.
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Extra Sleep Might Improve Memory Function In Alzheimer's Patients, Study ... Those afflicted with Alzheimer's disease - a progressive brain disease which slowly destroys not only memory, but also thinking skills - might benefit from sleeping longer, or so a new study conducted on fruit flies suggests.
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Sleep may improve memory for Alzheimer's patients Researchers have found that more sleep could make strides in helping restore the memory of Alzheimer's patients. Sleep has always been associated with improved memory, but a recent study shows that it may also help those who are suffering from ...
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GSK shingles vaccine shows benefits across all age groups LONDON (Reuters) - An experimental shingles vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline is effective across all age groups, researchers said on Tuesday, boosting the prospects of a key product in the British drugmaker's development pipeline.
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Senate Bill Would Give FDA More Regulatory Power Over Personal Care Products Sponsors of the measure say new powers of oversight and regulation are needed to ensure product safety. Existing federal protections are outdated and inadequate, they say.
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