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Mallercise: can you shape up at the shops?
13.07.2008 20:11
telegraph.co.uk
Exercising at the mall is catching on - and it's more vigorous than it sounds, discovers Neil Tweedie.
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
10-minute nutrition
13.07.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how your diet can improve fertility
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
Pregnancy: another week of grim privation looms
13.07.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
Judith Woods raises a glass (of fish oil) to commonsense advice on what she can and can't consume.
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
Joint clinic
13.07.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
Osteopath Kristian Wood fixes your aches and pains
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
Cancer survivor numbers reach 2m
13.07.2008 20:04
bbc.co.uk
Many more UK people than thought either have cancer, or have beaten the disease, says a charity.
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Health & Beauty
Nicotine drug 'may slow dementia'
13.07.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
Nicotine-based drugs may help delay the moment a person with dementia has to enter a care home, researchers say.
World
Health & Beauty
Happiness 'immune to life events'
13.07.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
Momentous life events, such as marriage or having children, only boost happiness temporarily, say researchers.
World
Health & Beauty
Weekly Round Up: Athletes Breathing, Fatal Seafood Allergy, NAET
13.07.2008 15:12
beyondallergy.com
How Athletes Can Breathe a Little Easier About Pollution (source) Interesting Q & A about what the Olympians might face and how exercisers everywhere can minimize their risk of problems regarding pollution. Man Allergic to Seafood Dies after Eating Crab Dish at Restaurant (source) A 35 year old allergic man died this week after eating a crab dish [...]
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Allergy
New Discovery Could Lead To An Improved Influenza Vaccine
13.07.2008 15:09
medicalnewstoday.com
Findings just published in the scientific journal Immunity by researchers at the Trudeau Institute shed new light on how a previously-unknown messaging mechanism within the human immune system prompts specific influenza-fighting cells to the lung airways during an infection. Infections from the influenza virus are responsible for hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and as many as 40,000 deaths in the United States each year.
World
SARS
Superbug vaccines 'within decade'
13.07.2008 15:02
bbc.co.uk
The government's chief medical officer for England says superbug vaccines should be available within 10 years.
World
Health & Beauty
Controlling Your Allergies Leads to Better Sleep
13.07.2008 13:15
beyondallergy.com
I recently read about a study that showed that parents with children with allergies report that on the whole, their children are less productive than those children without allergies. So why is this? Are they feeling so lousy that they arent able to function in their daily lives? Is their allergy medication taking a toll [...]
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Allergy
British Medical Association Recommends Starting Sex Education In Primary Schools
13.07.2008 13:13
medicalnewstoday.com
At a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, 54.6% of British Medical Association members on Wednesday voted in favor of providing sex education in primary schools in the United Kingdom, Scotland's Herald reports.
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Children Diseases
Study Of Surgical Option For Treating Diabetic And Other Neuropathies Launched By UT Southwestern
13.07.2008 10:10
medicalnewstoday.com
UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons and specialists in diabetes, neurology, pain management and rehabilitation are launching a cutting-edge study of peripheral nerve surgery to alleviate long-standing pain and numbness in patients with diabetic neuropathy. Neuropathy is nerve-related pain, often associated with diabetes.
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Diabetes
Link Between Thunderstorms And Asthma Attacks
13.07.2008 09:11
medicalnewstoday.com
In the first in-depth study of its kind ever done in the Southeastern United States, researchers at the University of Georgia and Emory University have discovered a link between thunderstorms and asthma attacks in the metro Atlanta area that could have a "significant public health impact.
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Asthma
Common Mechanisms May Underlie Autism's Seemingly Diverse Mutations
13.07.2008 08:09
medicalnewstoday.com
Many of the seemingly disparate mutations recently discovered in autism may share common underlying mechanisms, say researchers supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mutations may disrupt specific genes that are vital to the developing brain, and which are turned on and off by experience-triggered neuronal activity. A research team led by Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., and Eric Morrow, M.D., Ph.
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