World / Health & Beauty
Hormone may help dieters keep weight off: U.S. study
20.06.2008 21:01
reuters.com
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Falling levels of a hormone called leptin that helps the brain resist tempting foods may explain why people who lose weight often have a hard time keeping it off, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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Health & Beauty
Team Helly Hansen: No sleep until the finish line
20.06.2008 20:15
telegraph.co.uk
Tarquin Cooper joins the adventurers who run, cycle, kayak and navigate all over Britain.
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
Inside Track
20.06.2008 20:15
telegraph.co.uk
A round-up of adventure sports by Samantha Ryder
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
Cellulite: a leg-up for fat busters
20.06.2008 20:15
telegraph.co.uk
Alice Hart-Davis looks at the latest anti-cellulite treatments
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
Pillow Talk
20.06.2008 20:15
telegraph.co.uk
The TV presenter and comedienne, Ruby Wax, advises readers as Weekend's agony aunt
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
HIV men 'having unprotected sex'
20.06.2008 20:04
bbc.co.uk
Some gay men who are HIV positive are still having unprotected sex, a study suggests.
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Health & Beauty
AAMC Calls For Strict Limits On Industry Support Of Medical Education
20.06.2008 18:13
medicalnewstoday.com
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) urged all medical schools and teaching hospitals to adopt policies that prohibit drug industry gifts and services to physicians, faculty, residents, and students, and to limit industry support of continuing medical education activities. The recommendations were part of a new AAMC report, "Industry Funding of Medical Education," unanimously approved by the association's Executive Council.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Salmonella outbreak illnesses climb to 552
20.06.2008 18:01
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. food safety inspectors will head to Florida and Mexico this weekend to examine tomato farms and distribution chains, hoping to pinpoint the source of a widening Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 550 people, officials said on Friday.
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Health & Beauty
Study: Changing virus research location could be costly
20.06.2008 17:21
usatoday.com
An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new ...
USA
Health & Beauty
GAO finds tax delinquency by 6% of Medicare providers in '06
20.06.2008 17:21
usatoday.com
More than 27,000 health care providers hospitals, nursing homes and doctors who care for the elderly owe more than $2 billion ...
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Health & Beauty
Study Indicates Need For Tailored Nutrition Education For Hispanic Women With Or At Risk Of Diabetes
20.06.2008 16:12
medicalnewstoday.com
One-third of Hispanic women with diabetes living in Connecticut have never seen a registered dietitian or diabetes health educator, and nutrition knowledge was limited even among those who had, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Reuters Health reports.
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Diabetes
Senate GOP To Offer Pared-Down Medicare Physician Pay Patch Bill
20.06.2008 15:13
medicalnewstoday.com
Senate Finance Committee Republicans on Wednesday announced they would offer a pared-down bill that would eliminate a 10.6% reduction to Medicare physician fees, CQ Today reports. According to CQ Today, Senate Republicans are "apparently losing faith in Democrats to produce a Medicare bill by the end of the month." The fee cut is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
MMWR Report Examines False-Positive Oral Fluid Rapid HIV Tests
20.06.2008 15:13
medicalnewstoday.com
"False-Positive Oral Fluid Rapid HIV Tests --- New York City, 2005--2008," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: MMWR examines recent increase in the number of false-positive HIV test results in oral fluid testing with
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HIV/AIDS
Michigan Physician Group Proposes Long-Term Project To Raise State Physician Population, Reduce State Medical School Costs
20.06.2008 14:13
medicalnewstoday.com
The Michigan State Medical Society on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago announced a proposal for a long-term initiative to increase the state's physician population and rein in medical school costs, the
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Pharmacies Should Be Allowed To Refuse Contraception Prescriptions If Policy Clearly Posted, Opinion Piece Says
20.06.2008 14:13
medicalnewstoday.com
Pharmacies should not be forced to provide birth control "if they don't want to," but laws should require pharmacies to post their policies clearly so as not to "wast[e] women's time," William Saletan, a science and technology reporter for Slate magazine, writes in an opinion piece responding to a recent
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Pharmaceutics
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