Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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Romantic Breakups Cause Real Pain
Fox News
Rejection quite literally hurts — the experience and the memory of getting dumped by a loved one trigger brain regions linked with physical sensations of pain, scientists find. Around the world, people for centuries have used the same language — words ...
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Radiation study: Don't fear X-rays from airport scanners
Los Angeles Times
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times The Transportation Security Administration began installing full-body scanners in American airports shortly after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab hid explosives in his underwear in a thwarted attempt to blow up a Northwest ...
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Seasonal allergies emerging
USA Today
By Mary Brophy Marcus,, USA TODAY As tiny green, yellow and pink buds began painting tree branches a few weeks ago, Lindsey McVeigh decided it was time to see an allergy expert. At least 10% of Americans have seasonal allergies to tree, ...
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Death rates 'higher' in youth
BBC News
By Neil Bowdler Science reporter, BBC News Premature deaths are now more likely to occur in adolescence and early adulthood than in childhood, a new global report claims. The study in The Lancet looked at data from 50 countries - rich, middle-income ...
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Orlando Student Receives Hand Transplant
WESH Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A 21-year-old Valencia Community College student became the tenth person in the United States to receive a complete hand transplant. Linda Lu shared her incredible story at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Monday. ...
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Less Stress, Better Sleep May Help You Lose Weight
U.S. News & World Report
By Steven Reinberg TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- If you're looking to lose those extra pounds, you should probably add reducing stress and getting the right amount of sleep to the list, say researchers from Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health ...
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Obese Toddler
KTLA
Guangdong Province, China (KTLA) -- Doctors in China are worried about the health of a 3-year-old boy who tips the scales at a whopping 132 pounds -- four or five times what most kids his age weigh. Lu Hao was actually born underweight, ...
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Medical Marijuana May Impair Thinking of MS Patients
WebMD
By Salynn Boyles March 28, 2011 -- Many multiple sclerosis (MS) patients use marijuana to ease pain and other symptoms associated with the disorder, but the practice might make one common symptom worse. MS patients in a small study who smoked or ...
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Weight-Loss Surgery Urged to Reduce Serious Diabetes Complications
Fox News
Health authorities across the world were being urged Tuesday to use weight-loss surgery earlier in the treatment of people with type 2 diabetes to reduce the serious complications that can result from the disease. An International Diabetes Foundation ...
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Our Methodology: How We Ranked the Best Hospitals in 52 Metro Areas
U.S. News & World Report
By Avery Comarow Atlanta's Emory University Hospital is among the nation's elite medical centers. It is one of only 152 of the country's 4852 hospitals to be named a US News Best Hospital in even a single specialty in the 2010-11 national rankings. ...
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Illinois has 48 hospitals on 'best metro' list
Chicago Tribune
AP Illinois has 48 hospitals on the first list of best metropolitan-area hospitals compiled by US News & World Report. Of 46 Chicago-area hospitals listed, the top three are in the city. They are, in order, Northwestern, University of Chicago and Rush ...
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Report: 42 disease clusters in 13 US states identified
USA Today
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY At least 42 disease clusters have occurred in 13 US states since 1976, according to a report Monday by environmentalists calling for further study of the cause of these health problems. "Communities all around the country ...
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Scientists says it's healthy to be nutty about walnuts
BBC News
Walnuts are the healthiest of all the nuts and should be eaten more as part of a healthy diet, US scientists say. Scientists from Pennsylvania told the American Chemical Society that walnuts contain the highest level of antioxidants compared to other ...
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What should I know about diabetes?
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
Diabetes mellitus comprises several diseases of carbohydrate metabolism that are characterized by hyperglycemia caused by insulin secretion defects, decreased insulin sensitivity, or both. This chronic hyperglycemic state results in long-term ...
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H1N1 claims one more life in Georgia
Xinhua
TBILISI, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The Georgian National Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday reported that the viral H1N1 flu had claimed yet another human life in the South Caucasus country. So far the virus has killed 30 Georgians this ...
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Hospice Foundation of America Webinar to Focus on Supporting LGBT Community
PR Newswire (press release)
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hospice Foundation of America will present a live, online webinar focusing on "Supporting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community through Illness, Death and Grief" on Wednesday April 20 ...
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