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| Recovery Act Grants will help reduce chronic disease and health disparities
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| HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today announced Healthcare 411 en Español – a new audio news series to provide Spanish speakers with evidence-based consumer information to help them stay healthy, prevent diseases, compare the effectiveness of various medical treatments, and obtain high-quality and safe health care.
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| Researchers at Princeton University find that calories from high fructose corn syrup are more likely to cause weight gain than regular table sugar
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| Although they emerged more than 90 years apart, the influenza viruses responsible for the pandemics of 1918 and 2009 share a structural detail that makes both susceptible to neutralization by the same antibodies.
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| In response to the healthcare reform legislation that was signed into law this week, the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPMedicine), in a statement released today, voiced its strong support of certain components of the reform legislation that will "improve the quality of life for people who suffer with chronic and acute pain."
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| Studies show that one-day contacts can be a healthy and more comfortable option for the nation's 40-million contact lens wearers
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| After 18-months of complaints, drug recalls and a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration for its "Failure to thoroughly investigate," McNeil Consumer Healthcare has proposed remediation measures that will do nothing to avert future contamination.
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| Treating the symptoms, not finding the cure - it's the oldest trick in town and hits the biggest issue in Healthcare. Now imagine that one can literally cook their way to healthier living ... fewer ailments, less doctor's visits, cheaper medical bills.
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| Courageous Vote in House Lays Foundation for a Health Care System We Can Take Pride In
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| "Could Your Lunch Kill You?" Protest Shines Spotlight on Need for New Meat Regulations
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| Scientists report that breast cancer risk assessment models, which predict a woman's chance of developing breast cancer, do not perform better when they include common inherited genetic variants recently linked to the disease.
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| Everyone has heard of Botox being used to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, but now the muscle-immobilizing treatment is moving to the opposite end of the body to get patients back on their feet.
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| April Fool’s Day may be synonymous with pranks and practical jokes, but members of TOPS Club, Inc. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), the nonprofit weight-loss support organization, know better than to be fooled when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle.
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| Heart patients who took a stomach acid-suppressing proton-pump inhibitor along with clopidogrel – a drug that prevents blood clots – were only half as likely to be hospitalized for upper digestive tract bleeding than those who used clopidogrel alone, according to a new study supported by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
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| First Global Study Indicates Comparable Fertility Rates for Minimally Invasive UFE and 'Gold Standard' Surgical Myomectomy for Women Who Want to Have Children After Uterine Fibroid Treatment
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| When Katherine Bigelow's The Hurt Locker won for "Best Picture," many believed that James Cameron's Avatar had been robbed.
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| Scientists studying the Anopheles gambiae mosquito - the main vector of malaria - have found that when the mosquito takes a blood meal, that act triggers two enzymes to form a network of crisscrossing proteins around the ingested blood.
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| A gene that causes a fatal childhood brain disorder can also cause adults to develop peripheral neuropathy, a condition resulting in weakness and decreased sensation in the hands and limbs, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The study is the first to show that different mutations in the same gene cause the two seemingly unrelated disorders.
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| An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery because of so-called VBAC bans.
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| Montefiore Nutritionist Explains How to Uncover Hidden Trans Fats and Protect Your Heart
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| Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells.
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| The nation's emergency physicians are urging America's students to stay safe during their spring break vacations by offering 10 tips to help avoid a trip to the emergency department.
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| The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has issued the following statement on the death of John Patrick Bedell from his attack on Pentagon guards on March 4, 2010:
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| Dermatologists explain why new research finds that psoriasis extends beyond its classification as a chronic skin condition and is linked to serious health risks
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| Natural Solutions Offers Integrative Therapies to Treat the Disease Afflicting 27 Million Americans
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy,that damages brain arteries.
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| It’s been a long and stormy winter and snow has found its way to almost all of the 50 states.
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| While it is not proven that coffee is protective, it is unlikely that moderate caffeine intake increases arrhythmia risk, Kaiser Permanente study finds
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| Study Shows Majority of Injuries Occur During Sports and Recreational Activity
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| Every day in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are exposed to ionizing radiation through radiation therapy, CT scans, x rays, mammograms, and other medical imaging and therapeutic procedures.
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