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Love Study: Brain Reacts To Heartbreak Same As Physical Pain
Medical News Today
Love hurts, and that is not just a saying for the broken hearted. Heartbreak is a very strange distress. It is exquisitely painful, and yet we cannot find an injury on our body. New research finds that when you reminisce about the one that got away, ...
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Complementary Treatment of Colic Lacks Evidence
Doctors Lounge
Evidence supporting the notion that complementary and alternative medicines may be useful for curing infantile colic is limited and of poor quality, according to a systematic review published online March 28 in Pediatrics. MONDAY, March 28 (HealthDay ...
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Study: Treatment-Resistant Hypertension Overdiagnosed
WebMD
By Denise Mann March 28, 2011-- Up to one-third of people who were thought to have treatment-resistant high blood pressure may actually have "white coat hypertension" -- blood pressure that spikes in the doctor's office. The new findings appear in the ...
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Daily use of Facebook leads to teen depression
Daily Gossip
Doctors warn of the link between use of Facebook and adolescent depression.Depression developed for adolescent users is the new threat related to social networks, according to an influential group of doctors from the United States . ...
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Daily Gossip
Airport Scanners: Much Ado About Very Little
MedPage Today
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Airport body scanners pose no significant radiation threat, even to frequent flyers, who are exposed to far more radiation during travel at high altitudes, authors of a review concluded. ...
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MedPage Today
Study Finds Conflicts Among Panels' Doctors
New York Times
By DUFF WILSON Doctors with private financial conflicts of interest dominated some of the panels that wrote guidelines on cardiovascular health in recent years, according to a medical journal study released on Monday. The guideline panels are the ...
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Valencia student has rare hand transplant at Emory University
Los Angeles Times
By Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel A 21-year-old college student from Oviedo received the Southeast's first hand transplant this month at Emory University, in Atlanta. At a press conference this morning, hand recipient Linda Lu and Emory's hand ...
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Los Angeles Times
Artificial Food Dyes Scrutinized by FDA
Wall Street Journal
By STEPHANIE GLEASON A Food and Drug Administration panel plans to meet this week to consider the potential link between hyperactivity in children and artificial dyes found in common foods such as candy, waffles and salad dressing. ...
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Teens who lose weight with surgery also lose bone density, just like adults
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Teens who undergo the most common type of weight-loss surgery lose bone density, just like adults, researchers reported Monday. But the teens had above-normal bone density at the beginning of the study and their ...
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March Flu Numbers Down
KTSM News Channel 9
By Lindsey Reiser - Multimedia Journalist EL PASO - The Department of Public Health says that preliminary flu numbers for March aren't as high as January and February. The health department reported 357 cases of the flu in January and 302 cases in ...
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KTSM News Channel 9
Attention to detail drives Top 100 Hospitals
Reuters
By Linda Wilson (Modern Healthcare) -- To steer Memorial Health Care System through the Great Recession, executives targeted, among other things, length of stay through a program in which case managers closely oversee inpatient admissions. ...
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Reuters
State makes forms available for medical marijuana cards
East Valley Tribune
Arizonans who act quickly can be among the first to qualify to buy, possess and use marijuana, which voters legalized for medical use last November. State health officials on Monday made the forms available on the agency's website that a doctor has to ...
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Toxic Waste Recalls More Candy
Eat. Drink. Better.
Toxic Waste has issued a recall for one lot of Short Circuits Bubble Gum due to high lead levels. Toxic Waste is a candy company that produces a range of very sour candies. As someone who really likes sour candies, this one keeps catching my eye. ...
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NH, Maine find slighted elevated radiation
Boston Globe
CONCORD, NH—Health officials say tests have detected low-levels of radioactivity from a stricken Japanese nuclear plant in snow samples in New Hampshire and air samples in Maine. Health officials say the levels do not pose a threat to public health. ...
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Procedure May Lower Hard-to-Treat Hypertension
WebMD
By Denise Mann March 28, 2011 -- An experimental procedure that uses radiofrequency energy to lower blood pressure may help millions of people with uncontrolled hypertension, a study suggests. The findings will be presented at the Society of ...
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