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Cookies' place is crumbling as top kids' snack
10.06.2008 22:23
usatoday.com
Some parents are cleaning up their nutrition acts, especially when it comes to the snacks they serve their young children, new ...
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Health & Beauty
End-of-life patients need big picture
10.06.2008 22:23
usatoday.com
Patients with advanced cancer often don't know how long they have to live or how chemotherapy will affect their lives, a study ...
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Health & Beauty
Teen survey shows virginity pledges can work
10.06.2008 22:23
usatoday.com
Virginity pledges do deter some teens from having sex, according to a study by the RAND Corp. that surveyed teen virgins over ...
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Health & Beauty
Food chains, stores hope tomato ban stems buyer fears
10.06.2008 22:23
usatoday.com
Want a tomato on your burger? Some food chains deem them too dangerous to consume.
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Health & Beauty
St. John's wort fails to help kids with ADHD
10.06.2008 22:23
usatoday.com
Children and teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder fared no better on St. John's wort than they did on dummy pills ...
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Health & Beauty
Risk-of-death assessments show smokers should beware
10.06.2008 22:23
usatoday.com
If you smoke, start thinking of yourself as a decade older than you really are.
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Health & Beauty
Wyeth To Announce Promising New Data For Enbrel(R) In Rheumatology
10.06.2008 22:14
medicalnewstoday.com
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals revealed highlights from data to be presented on its biologic therapy Enbrel® (etanercept), at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Annual Meeting in Paris, 11-14 June 2008. Highlights of the data to be presented include: - New 1-year radiographic remission results from the COMET trial (COmbination of Methotrexate and ETanercept in early active rheumatoid arthritis), along with clinical and functional remission results.
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Arthritis
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia - Nymox Starts Phase 3 Program For NX-1207
10.06.2008 20:13
medicalnewstoday.com
Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX) announced that, following recent communications with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Company is commencing its Phase 3 development program for NX-1207, Nymox's investigational product for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The Company will begin Phase 3 clinical trials in the U.S. later this year to support a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA.
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Urology
Light therapy 'can slow dementia'
10.06.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
Dementia could be slowed significantly by treatments which reset the body's natural clock, research suggests.
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Health & Beauty
Gene chemicals 'cancer warning'
10.06.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
People vulnerable to cancer may have subtle differences in cell chemicals that could be detected.
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Health & Beauty
Plea for children of mentally ill
10.06.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
More needs to be done to support the children of parents with mental illness, says charity Barnardo's.
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Health & Beauty
New food safety scare takes toll on consumers
10.06.2008 20:01
reuters.com
LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Whether it's Salmonella in tomatoes or E. coli-tainted spinach, outbreaks of food-borne illness are scaring people away from some foods and shaking their confidence in U.S. food safety procedures.
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Health & Beauty
USC Study Shows Belly Fat May Affect Liver Function
10.06.2008 18:17
medicalnewstoday.com
A study by the University of Southern California (USC) suggests the release of lipids from abdominal fat, which drains directly to the liver, increases overnight, providing additional insight as to how abdominal fat is associated with type 2 diabetes risk. The results of the study were presented at an oral session Monday, June 9 at the American Diabetes Association 68th Scientific Sessions held in San Francisco.
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Diabetes
Death risk charts put smoking harm in perspective
10.06.2008 17:02
reuters.com
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking shortens a person's life by 5 to 10 years, according to the authors of a set of simple charts spelling out death risks from various causes.
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Health & Beauty
Better counting raises HIV rate in U.S. by 25 percent
10.06.2008 17:02
reuters.com
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Researchers have been undercounting new cases of HIV infection in the United States, meaning the rate is probably 25 percent higher at 50,000 people per year, the nation's top AIDS doctor said on Tuesday.
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