Vitamins Taking Another Hit
Vitamins Taking Another Hit – What’s good, What’s not? Many of the claims made over their benefits seem prone to revision – listen how.
Tanning Beds Get High Cancer Warning
Tanning Beds Get High Cancer Warning – Tans look good, but at what cost? World Health Organization declared them as “probably carcinogenic”
Offspring of Older Fathers May Have Subtle Neurocognitive Impairments
Offspring of Older Fathers May Have Subtle Neurocognitive Impairments – children measured at 8 month, 4 years and 7 years consistently scored poorer.
Heart Failure Risk Among Young and Middle Age African American Adults is Far Higher Than Whites.
Heart Failure Risk Among Young and Middle Age African American Adults is Far Higher Than Whites. Although preventable, over the study period, Medscape reports that it was found this group was at risk 20 times greater than whites of the same age group.
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Eating Fish Shown to Reduce Chance of Dementia
Eating Fish Shown to Reduce Chance of Dementia – A large scale study shows that as part of a regular diet, fish has positive effects on reducing the incidence of dementia
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Twisted Ankle, Just a Sprain?
Twisted Ankle, Just a Sprain? NYT’s Jane Brody points out how trivial we treat sprains and what a mistake that may be.
Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma
Parental Stress Increases Kids’ Risk of Asthma: Interesting how environment can effect health. Now study shows that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma.
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Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma
Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma: A Study shows the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma.
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Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks
Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks: New test results show what scientists have suspected — people in their 60′s and older have signs of greater immunity to the new swine flu virus.
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Omega 3 Fatty Acids May Lower Age Related Macular Degeneration
Omega 3 Fatty Acids May Lower Age Related Macular Degeneration: Regular consumption of foods containing omega-3 fatty acids and avoidance of trans fats appear to be associated with a lower risk for the eye disease age-related macular degeneration
