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Children’s Food Allergies Increasing in the U.S.
Wednesday, 11.18.2009, 11:06am
Making sure that our kids get the correct foods they need is very
important, but it is also important to make sure that those foods do
not cause an allergic reactions.
Pediatric food allergies, which can
sometimes lead to life-threatening situations, are increasing at a
dramatic rate across the United States.
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Panel changes advice on mammograms
Monday, 11.16.2009, 10:23am
Women in their 40s should not get routine mammograms for early
detection of breast cancer, according to updated guidelines set forth
by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Before having a
mammogram, women ages 40 to 49 should talk to their doctors about the
risks and benefits of the test, and then decide if they want to be
screened, according to the task force.
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Replenish your energy with the right carbohydrates
Thursday, 11.12.2009, 11:30am
Everyone needs carbohydrates, the body's preferred energy source. If
you get regular cardiovascular exercise or train for an endurance
sport, you need more daily carbs to fuel your workouts and replenish
your energy stores.
Remember: all carbs are not created equal.
Grains, fruit, vegetables (nutrient-rich choices) as well as candy and
sweets (empty calories) are all sources of carbohydrate.
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WHO Report Identifies Disparities in Women’s Health Treatment
Wednesday, 11.11.2009, 11:32am
Clearly, women are different than men; not only in anatomy but in the
way they think, express emotion, and interact.
Men and women are also
different in matters of sickness and health. For example, each of the
sexes displays different symptoms of heart attack. Chest pain is most
common in men, while women’s symptoms are usually subtler,
characterized by abdominal pain, nausea, and fatigue.
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Newborn inspires mom to lose 71 pounds
Saturday, 11.07.2009, 02:21pm
Veronica Noone had been a little overweight since her teens, and,
like many people, had spent the better part of her life trying
different diets, whatever was popular at the time.
Having a
child changed that, she says. After she had her baby, she decided to
lose the post-baby weight and the extra pounds she'd been carrying
years before that. Dropping about 70 pounds in seven months, Noone's
maintained a healthy weight for almost four years now.
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How to dodge germs in the time of H1N1
Friday, 11.06.2009, 10:10am
On a recent flight from San Francisco, California, to Atlanta,
Georgia, Dr. Julie Gerberding was thrilled to get bumped up to first
class. The thrill, however, quickly disappeared: As she did her victory
walk to the front cabin, she noticed that the woman in the seat next to
hers was hacking up a lung.
"She was on her cell phone, saying, 'I feel miserable. I just know I
have swine flu,' " Gerberding remembered. "I thought to myself, 'Oh,
great.' "
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2 dead, 28 sick from E. coli outbreak
Wednesday, 11.04.2009, 07:01am
Two people have died and 28 people have fallen ill with matching
strains of E. coli after an outbreak in ground beef, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said.
Sixteen
of those people are in hospitals and three have developed kidney
failure as a result of the contamination, the CDC said late Monday.
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Promising New Lupus Drug Heads to FDA for Approval
Tuesday, 11.03.2009, 12:58pm
An experimental lupus drug has just met another key goal in its journey
to becoming the first approved treatment for the disease in over 50
years. The target of the new drug, known as Benlysta, is to suppress
the response of the body’s immune system to lupus in an attempt to
control the actions of a protein that becomes overactive in lupus
patients.
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12 Top Health Threats for Women
Tuesday, 11.03.2009, 10:20am
Men and women have different health needs, and each gender finds itself
with special health risks and needs. Women, in particular, are required
to pay particular attention to certain health conditions because of
body composition, such as reproductive organs.
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Natural Substitutions for Better Baking
Monday, 11.02.2009, 11:36am
When the holidays roll around and the sun goes into hiding for the
winter, bakers all around the country roll out their dough and go into
pie mode.
Although pies are not my specialty, holiday cookies, cakes,
bars, or breads are always great gift ideas and should be savored, not
stuffed down our gullets like sweets so often are.
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The H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu virus, could infect between 30 percent and 50 percent of the American population during the fall and winter and lead to as many as 1.8 million U.S. hospital admissions, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reported.
The report says 30,000 to 90,000 deaths are projected as part of a "plausible scenario" involving large outbreaks at schools, inadequate antiviral supplies and the virus peaking before vaccinations have time to be effective.
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