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Study shows that broken heart really does hurt
Deseret News
By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News The '80s rock band Foreigner sang about it, Keith Adams explained it and researchers at the University of Michigan proved it: A broken heart really does hurt — actual physical pain. The new research, published this week ...
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Adolescent Deaths Overtake Child Mortality
Fox News
Death rates among adolescents have overtaken those of young children as increasing numbers of young males are dying through violence or injury while efforts to reduce child mortality are succeeding. A study of data from 50 countries over the second ...
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Enlarged prostate: Will new procedure revolutionize treatment?
CBS News
(CBS) From incontinence and erectile dysfunction, the side effects of treatment for an enlarged prostate can seem almost as bad as the symptoms the disorder itself. But a preliminary study to be presented Tuesday at a urology conference in Chicago ...
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Marijuana And MS Treatment, Not So Smart?
Medical News Today
Medical marijuana has long been a controversial subject to the using and non-using communities and a new study has presented information that those with Multiple Sclerosis that use the sometimes legalized drug, may trade some level of pain relief for ...
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Just-Approved Defibrillators Limit Unnecessary Shocks
U.S. News & World Report
TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Defibrillator maker Medtronic says its new line of Protecta devices has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The devices incorporate "Smart Shock" technology that recognizes when irregular ...
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US News ranks top Denver area hospitals
Denver Post
University of Colorado Hospital CEO Bruce Schroffel jokes with Special Procedure Technician, Lisa Honeycutt, in the Interventional Radiology and Cardiovascular Services department, during his "almost daily" rounds at the Anschutz Medical Campus in ...
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Airport Scanner Radiation: What's the Cancer Risk?
TIME
Number of airport body scans a person would have to endure to equal the amount of radiation exposure from a single dental X-ray, according to a new study. It would take 4000 airport scans to equal the radiation exposure from a mammogram, ...
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Want to lose weight - get a good night's sleep
Telegraph.co.uk
Weight loss is usually linked to changes in diet and exercise. But if you really want to shed those pounds you should also considers altering your sleep patterns too, claims a study. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent 6:00PM BST 29 Mar 2011 ...
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132 Pound Toddler Baffles Doctors In China
ThirdAge
By cfiske A toddler in China weighs 132 pounds and is baffling doctors by his rapid weight gain, according to a report by Britain's The Sun. Lu Hao, a 3-year-old, was born slightly underweight at about 6 pounds, but now weighs five times the weight of ...
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Facebook Depression: Doctors Warn Social Networking Can Harm Kids
Baltimore Sun
Facebook users are everywhere--with 22% of teenagers logging onto Facebook more than 10 times a day. Nicolette Ramirez checks in about 7 times a day and spends at least 2 hours online keeping up with her more than 300 friends. ...
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Erin Brockovich pushes for disease cluster law
Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - Erin Brockovich, a US consumer health advocate whose life story was the basis for an Academy Award-winning film, urged senators on Tuesday to pass a law to document ...
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Macomb County mother who faked son's cancer gets year in jail, fine
Detroit Free Press
General Motors is close to filling the restaurant space overlooking the Detroit River in the... Looks like peace protesters who've been camping out at London's Parliament Square won't be evicted... Edie Falco has performed the near impossible: She has ...
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Morning Report: Clampdown On Medical Marijuana
Voice of San Diego
Welcome! Full, real names are required to comment and will be verified. All comments are approved by an administrator before appearing. Anonymous comments, or those with insults, unwarranted attacks or unsubstantiated accusations, will not be posted. ...
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Supreme Court: County can't sue for alleged drug overcharging
FiercePharma
The US Supreme Court has ruled that only the federal government has a right to enforce its rules against overcharging for prescription drugs in public-health facilities and that the parties affected do not have the right to sue the companies for the ...
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Study: Walnuts good for the heart
ABC7Chicago.com
March 28, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- When it comes to heart health, one nut comes out on top. It only takes about seven walnuts a day to reap the potential health benefits, according to a new study by the University of Scranton Pennslyvania. ...
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Renal Denervation Found to Treat Resistant Hypertension
Renal and Urology News
CHICAGO—Renal denervation (RDN), a new procedure in which a catheter-based probe inserted is into the renal artery to deactivate nerves near the kidneys with high-frequency energy, may be effective for treating resistant hypertension, according to ...
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Juarez Flu Deaths May Have Texas Connection
KTSM News Channel 9
By Bob Grotenhuis - Producer JUAREZ - A woman who died of the H1N1 virus in Juarez had just returned from a trip to Texas, health authorities in Juarez said. Two police officers and a woman also died of the Swine Flu virus in Juarez. ...
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MRSA Infections May Vary by Season
U.S. News & World Report
TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Dangerous methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections occur more often in the summer and fall, and this seasonal increase is more common in children than adults, a new study reports. ...
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