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08/19/2005 |
Healthy Briefs |
1) Exercise for a woman's heart
2) Tap water chemicals and pregnancy
3) Painkillers and hypertension linked |
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08/19/2005 |
Back to Birth Basics |
Midwives are working to reverse the
trend of more technology in childbirth |
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08/19/2005 |
Money can buy happiness... sort of |
| Money can buy happiness, according to new academic research in the United States. But the old saw that financial gain doesn't a happy life make seems partly true, as wellbeing appears in proportion to a person's relative wealth compared to their peers. |
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08/12/2005 |
Chlamydia: Latinas wake up! |
| The rate of Latina teenagers with Chlamydia is a crying shame: more than double that of white teens. |
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08/12/2005 |
Our yummy and healthy recipe: Fresh Salsa |
| The National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Office of Research on Minority Health have sponsored the project “Salud para su Corazón” (Health for your heart). |
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08/12/2005 |
Immunization time: Down came the tears |
Like the beginning of the school year isn't hectic enough, parents have to add to the never ending to do list the appointment with a doctor for the physical exam and to have the immunization record updated to show it at registration in the school.
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07/29/2005 |
Exercise may help to overcome depression |
| In the news release of January 25, 2005, the UT Southwestern Medical Center, states that a study by researchers at this University, has concluded that “aerobic exercise alone can have a significant impact on mild to moderate depression”. The whole study has been recently published by the American Journal of Preventive medicine. |
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07/29/2005 |
Party Tips for Weight Watchers |
| Judy Mazel, author of the best selling book “The New Beverly Hills Diet” , gives these practical tips for weight watchers, when going to parties: |
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07/29/2005 |
Warning: diabetes in increasing in hispanic children |
| Recent headlines about the health of the nation's youth have raised alarm, but a new study shows that the pervasiveness of the early stages of heart disease and diabetes among Latino children may be particularly disturbing. |
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07/29/2005 |
A Festival of colors in our table |
| The book “What Color Is Your Diet?", by Dr. David Heber, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California at Los Angeles , and dietitian Susan Bowerman, emphasizes the importance of increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, and the need to choose broadly among the richly colored options. |
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07/22/2005 |
Are you eligible for extra help to pay for prescription drugs? |
| Beginning in January 2006, Medicare will offer prescription drug plans to beneficiaries. But now is the time to see if you qualify for some extra financial help in paying for your monthly premiums, annual deductibles and prescription co-payments under the new program. |
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07/15/2005 |
Exercice, the spark of life |
| In the beginning, you should start by taking it easy. If you start out with an unrealistic routine, as is usually the case with the born-again exerciser, you are setting yourself up to fall. In that case your guilty feelings about not being able to keep it up might cause you to give it up exercising. |
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07/15/2005 |
Need advice? / What is homocysteine? |
| In his book “Enhancing Heart Health”, cardiologist Dr. Mathew Budoff defines homocysteine as a “non-essential amino acid that contributes to plaque buildup and artery wall damage when combined with “bad cholesterol, LDL.” |
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07/15/2005 |
| What's Up ? / Women: watch your waistline! |
| Two-thirds of women who die suddenly of cardiovascular disease have no previous recognized symptoms. Therefore, science is making great efforts to find effective indicators of cardiovascular risk that could facilitate timely referral and medical assistance. |
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07/08/2005 |
Beat the Heat, Even When You're Pregnant |
| The heat makes everyone a little irritable and cranky. Couple that with pregnancy, and discomfort takes on a whole new meaning. But it is possible to beat the heat during pregnancy. Here are some tips on how to stay cool, even with a big belly. |
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07/08/2005 |
| Anti-depressants may lead to suicide |
| The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidelines saying that adults who take anti-depressants must be closely watched for potential suicidal tendencies.
The warning, placed on the FDA's Internet site Friday, is stronger than an earlier one issued on March 2004. |
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07/01/2005 |
Cervical Cancer, Prevention and Treatment |
| With approximately 10,520 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed last year in the U.S., and about 3,900 deaths, this can be a very serious disease. However, it is preventable, and treatable. |
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07/01/2005 |
| Soy causes infertility |
| Genistein, found in soy, which can mimic the effect of the female hormone estrogen, affects sperm in mice, and have an even stronger impact on human sperm, according to a study by King's College of London. |
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06/24/2005 |
Folic Acid: A key
nutrient for a healthy baby |
| Good news!
The premise that optimum nutrition can greatly improve your chances of having a healthy pregnancy is rapidly gaining wider acceptance in the scientist's world. |
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06/24/2005 |
In health, some are
more equal than others |
| Health disparities are the result of a complex mix of factors, but in essence they are defined by the answer to a simple question: why medical treatment is different for minorities and non-minorities when all other factors are the same? |
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06/17/2005 |
More babies, young kids
going hungry in US |
| Increasing numbers of young American children are showing signs of serious malnourishment, amid a greater prevalence of hunger in the United States, while, paradoxically, two-thirds of the US population is either overweight or obese. |
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06/17/2005 |
Costa Rica sees sharp
surge in dengue fever |
| The popular tourist destination of Costa Rica has seen a sharp uptick in dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that can be deadly, Costa Rica's health minister warned Saturday. More than 4,4000 cases have been reported since the start of the year, a spike of 51 percent over 2004. |
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06/10/2005 |
Breastfeeding protects your breasts |
Breastfeeding and having large numbers of children are the key to the developing world's low rates of breast cancer compared with Western countries such as Britain, according to new research published in The Lancet.
The study found that the longer women breastfeed, the more they are protected from the disease. This effect is over and above the protection gained from having children. |
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06/03/2005 |
| Exercise boosts chances
of breast cancer survival |
Women stricken with breast cancer can boost their chances of survival by 50 percent with some exercise, according to a study published Wednesday.
"This is good news for women with breast cancer," said Doctor Michelle Holmes, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor who led the study published in the Journal of the Medical Association (JAMA). |
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05/13/2005 |
| Gay men attracted by
same scents as women |
| Homosexual men respond in the same way as women to pheromones, or odors believed by many to regulate sexual arousal, a new Swedish study shows, lending credence to the theory that homosexuality is biologically determined. |
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05/13/2005 |
| Cash, the main barrier to rolling back malaria |
| Two international organisations said Tuesday that progress has been made in stemming malaria, one of the world’s biggest killers, but that there was insufficient cash to mount a sustained attack against it. |
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05/06/2005 |
| Mothers to be: should you have an episiotomy? |
| Recent research by scientists at the Center for Women’s Health Research in the University of North Carolina have called into question a few assumptions over the benefits of the oft-practiced episiotomy. |
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