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| Can You Believe Crocodile-Based Drugs? | | Scientists in northern Australia are collecting blood samples from crocodiles, hoping their blood can be transformed into a powerful antibiotic. No joke... |
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| Feds Looking Into Trading Insider Drug Information | | Almost 10 percent of the nation?s 700,000 doctors are paid to do consulting work for investment firms known as matchmakers that connect physicians and even drug company employees with investors for a fee. |
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| Studies, Basic Premise of Health Research, Frequently Flawed | | An interesting piece in yesterday?s Boston Globe discusses some of the interesting and necessary repercussions that may reshape how medical studies are conducted. |
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| You Are Much More Complex Than Simple Genes | | Epigenomes -- the regulators of your genetic expression -- may have far more to do with your health than your genes. |
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| OTC Pain Relievers Spur High Blood Pressure | | Women taking a non-aspirin painkiller like acetaminophen every day may be twice as prone to high blood pressure than those who don?t use them. |
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| Hydraulic Fluid And Surgery Don't Mix | | Fifty patients met last week in Raleigh, N.C., to share their horror stories of delayed recoveries after exposure to hydraulic fluid during their surgeries. |
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| A High-Tech Caution: Take Care Of Your Ears | | The only downside of using MP3 players and mobile phones: The effect these devices can have on your hearing. |
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| Pfizer Imposes New Drug Ad Ban | | Pfizer announced an six-month embargo on consumer advertising as new drugs come to market late last week. |
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| Could CCK Be A Factor In Obesity Too? | | Penn State University scientists have identified another hormone --cholecystokinin (CCK) -- that may affect obesity too. |
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| Getting Your Folate Prevents Alzheimer's? | | Older folks who eat larger amounts of folate -- at least 400 mgs a day -- can cut their risk of Alzheimer's disease by more than half. |
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| You Need Help In Making Medical Choices | | The New York Times has an excellent comprehensive article today on the choices that many face when seeking to navigate through the many difficult choices they have when confronted with a serious illness. |
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| Accutane Restrictions Kick In At Year's End | | Looks like the restrictions on physicians and consumers, scheduled to go into effect Dec. 31, may be stricter on Accutane and its generic version than were first reported. |
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| Can Love Be A Disease? | | A fun satire I read today on the NewsTarget.com Web site pokes well-deserved fun at the mega-drug companies. |
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| Amazing New Bike Designs | | Cycling manufacturing giant Specialized is creating prototypes for quite a few brand new revolutionary bikes, set to be released in 2006, called their Venom line. |
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| Why Wasting Food Hurts Everyone In The Pocketbook | | More than 40 percent of the food grown in this country is wasted or lost, amounting to a minimum cost of $100 billion! |
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| NY Restaurants: Hold Those Trans Fats! | | In a good sign of the times, New York City's health department issued a warning to some 20,000 restaurants in the Big Apple to stop cooking food with trans fats -- an artery-clogging fat formed when vegetable oils are hardened into margarine or shortening. |
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| Cold Fusion Shares Same Skeptics As Alternative Medicine | | Another issue that's key to the survival of conventional medicine -- discrediting anything that may represent a safer, healthier and better alternative. |
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| Can A Veggie Diet Improve Your Prostate Cancer Prognosis? | | You may be hearing about a small study that found adjustments in a man's daily diet along with exercise and relaxation techniques like yoga may be a good way to treat prostate cancer. As always, however, you have to pay attention to the messenger. |
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| Health Groups Urge FDA To Put The Breaks on Silicon Implants | | Two weeks ago, I warned you about the FDA's conditional approval of Mentor Corp.'s request to sell silicon breast implants once again in this country, but only if conditions spelled out in a confidential letter to the company were resolved. |
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| Designer Chocolates No Boon To Your Health | | With all the recent announcements about the potential health benefits of chocolate, it's no surprise major food manufacturers are taking advantage of all this good news by introducing new lines of expensive designer products that are likely no better for your health than the typical candy bar. |
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| PhRMA Blasts FDA Drug Safety Site | | Citing confusion and creating irrational fears about prescription drugs among the public, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) blasted the FDA's recent launch of its Drug Watch Web site. |
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| Parents: Take Charge Of Your Kids' Exercise Needs! | | With obesity rates hitting the stratosphere, especially among our children, do not depend on schools to do the work that needs to be done to keep your kids physically active and healthy. |
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| Baby Boomers, Vegan Moms Need Their B12! | | According to researchers, vitamin B12 deficiencies may be much more commonplace than originally thought. |
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| Fish Oil Makes You Smarter | | A recent review of studies, including about 50 that have not yet been included in published reviews, support the benefits of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in terms of improved cognitive or behavioral performance |
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| Lung Cancer Affects More Female Non-Smokers | | Dana Reeve may be part of a growing group of women who don't smoke and are more likely than their male counterparts to develop lung cancer. |
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| The Non Epidemic of Melanoma | | If the environment was really doing something to cause people to get skin cancer, there would increases in cancers across the board, at all sorts of stages. |
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| Americans Suffer From Allergies in Record Numbers | | More than half of Americans are sensitive to one or more allergens, twice the number who suffered from them just three decades ago. |
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| Why Aspirin Doesn't Protect You From Cardiovascular Troubles | | Evidence is growing that some patients aren't responding to the anti-coagulant action of aspirin at all. In fact, taking aspirin regularly will not protect patients from cardiovascular events. |
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| The Deadly Effect of Sleep Apnea | | According to a new study, a loss of brain cells -- causing patients to stop breathing -- may be a reason some elderly folks die in their sleep, and sleep apnea could be the key to understanding it. |
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| Is Processed Food Really Food? | | An essay I reviewed on the GoAnimal.com Web site takes an interesting look at the conundrum many people seem to have when it comes to eating the right foods. |
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| FDA Bans Antibiotic From Poultry | | After some five years of stalling by mega-drugmaker Bayer Corp., the FDA finally issued a ban on the use of Baytril -- an antibiotic used by poultry manufacturers. |
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| Libby's Taints Canned Fruits With Splenda | | Here's one good reason to be careful: Splenda is now being used to sweeten canned fruit. |
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| Will Pasteurized Milk Increase Your Chances of Ovarian Cancer? | | A meta-analysis of studies reviewed by Swedish researchers has found a higher intake of lactose and milk may be linked to a greater risk of ovarian cancer. |
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| U.S. Rice Has Five Times More Arsenic | | According to a new study of grains, American-grown rice contains up to five times as much arsenic than that of crops in Bangladesh, Europe and India. |
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