Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Obese and overweight women and children may underestimate how heavy they are
Los Angeles Times
By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times Women and children who are overweight and obese may have a skewed vision of just how heavy they are, a new study finds, as many underestimated how much they actually weighed. Researchers surveyed 111 mothers ...
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Los Angeles Times
Denied insurance under new health-care law? File an appeal, GAO says
Washington Post
By Michelle Singletary, Friday, February 25, 11:48 PM Say what you want about health-care reform, but as with many other pieces of legislation that have been passed during the country's recent economic hard times, we are getting some much-needed ...
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Study: The Heart Benefits of Fish May Outweigh the Mercury Risks
TIME
By Alice Park Wednesday, March 23, 2011 | 0 comments Eating fish is good for your heart, but there's a catch: the fish richest in good-for-you omega-3 fats also tend to harbor the most mercury, which can be harmful for brain development, ...
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Elizabeth Taylor dies of congestive heart failure. What is it?
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Actress Elizabeth Taylor dies early Wednesday of congestive heart failure at age 79. Here is some information about the condition. Congestive heart failure, commonly abbreviated CHF, occurs when the heart keeps ...
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Los Angeles Times
Full Face Transplant Recipient "Doing Great"
ThirdAge
By Stephanie Sajor The first full face transplant recipient in the US is now recovering and "doing great" said lead surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, according to WBUR Boston. Having a face gives Dallas Wiens, a 25-year-old former construction worker, lips, ...
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ThirdAge
Diabetes drug Actos reduces risk of developing the disease
Los Angeles Times
The diabetes drug Actos reduces the possibility of developing Type 2 diabetes for high-risk patients, study finds. By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Taking the diabetes drug Actos every day reduced the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes by ...
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Regrets About Romance More Common in Women
ThirdAge
By Adam Smit Regrets about romance top the list for women in America, according to a new study by a professor at Northwestern University in Chicago. Neil Roese, a marketing professor, surveyed 370 adults aged 20 to 80 across the United States by ...
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ThirdAge
FBI's anthrax suspect is likely killer, panel concludes
MiamiHerald.com
By GREG GORDON WASHINGTON -- The late Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins engaged in a decades-long pattern of "concealment and deceit," pretending to be a comical juggler who played the organ in church on Sundays, while his dark side drove him to mail ...
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Study: Spiriva Beats Serevent for COPD Flare-ups
WebMD
By Denise Mann March 23, 2011 -- Once-daily Spiriva (tiotropium) may be more effective at reducing risk for exacerbations among people with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than Serevent (salmeterol), a new study shows. ...
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Menthol cigarettes not riskier for lung cancer
CBC.ca
Smokers of menthol cigarettes are no more likely to develop lung cancer than people who smoke regular cigarettes, a new US study suggests. The findings in Wednesday's online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute come as the US Food and ...
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CBC.ca
CDC Report: Americans Feel Healthy
ABC News
But the report also drew attention to the growing population of Americans who can't afford health care when they need it. The percentage of people who failed to obtain medical coverage because of cost increased from 4.5 percent in 1997 to 7 percent in ...
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Health Highlights: March 22, 2011
BusinessWeek
Virginia's challenge of the new US health care law should bypass an appellate court and proceed straight to the Supreme Court because a delay in resolving the case leads to "crippling uncertainty," according to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. ...
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WHO urges stepped up battle against drug-resistant TB
AFP
GENEVA — The World Health Organisation on Wednesday urged donors to stamp out multidrug-resistant tuberculosis after the number of the hard-to-treat strains of the lung disease doubled in recent years. In a progress report to mark World TB Day on ...
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CORRECTED - UPDATE 2-No fracture warning needed for OTC ulcer drugs-FDA
Reuters
(Corrects to delete inaccurate reference in paragraph 2 to FDA changing labels. This error also appeared in UPDATE 1. Rewrites headline, bullets and story to reflect that news is FDA conclusion that short-term, low-dose use of the drugs is unlikely to ...
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Study: Mouse genome has human cancer clue
UPI.com
ST. LOUIS, March 23 (UPI) -- US researchers say sequencing the genome of a mouse with cancer turned up mutations that also drive cancers in humans, a step in understanding the disease. Scientists involved in sequencing the genomes of human patients to ...
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Hospital Settles Suit Filed After Deaths in Hurricane
New York Times
By AP NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A major New Orleans hospital and the company that owned it have settled a class-action lawsuit over the deaths and injuries of patients who were stranded there by Hurricane Katrina. The settlement was reached Wednesday as a ...
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Jeff Chiu / AP
msnbc.com
Samples of medical marijuana are shown behind a display case at Harborside Health Center in Oakland, Calif. By Al Olson Deputy business editor There is a noticeable aroma wafting around the medical marijuana industry. It's the smell of money – with a ...
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msnbc.com
Gosnell's Philly assets to remain frozen
Newsworks.org
By Carolyn Beeler West Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell agreed Wednesday to a continuation of a freeze on the properties he owns in Philadelphia County. Lawyer Bernard Smalley said he asked for a temporary freeze last month after Gosnell and ...
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