Monday, August 30, 2010

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Study: Pot May Provide Chronic Pain Relief
FOXNews
In a small study, people who had chronic pain as a result of damage to the nervous system reported feeling less pain, as well as less depression and anxiety, when they smoked marijuana compared to when they smoked a drug-free placebo. ...
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Researchers See Rise In Children's Sports-Related Concussions
Wall Street Journal
By Jennifer Corbett Dooren Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The number of concussions suffered by school-age children appears to be rising even as participation in certain organized team sports declines, according to a new study published ...
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EPA-DHA Pumped Spreads Reconsidered
ABC News
By COURTNEY ANN HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit They taste like butter and offer a boost of heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids, but these omega-enhanced margarines may not actually help your heart, according to new research from the Netherlands. ...
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Salmonella Outbreaks Spur Nationwide Egg Recall
Food Consumer
Eggs are the culprit behind a US salmonella outbreak that caused hundreds of illnesses each week in June and July. A nationwide egg recall now involves more than a dozen major brands that got eggs from Wright County Egg. The CDC and state investigators ...
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Health Highlights: Aug. 30, 2010
BusinessWeek
Concerns about possible E. coli contamination have led to the recall of about 8500 pounds of ground beef distributed by Pennsylvania-based Cargill Meat Solutions, says the US Department of Agriculture. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said ...
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Questions loom over drug given to sleepless vets
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent ...
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Prostate Cancer in the Family: Risks Are Inflated
Medscape
August 30, 2010 — Increased diagnostic activity among men who have a brother with prostate cancer appears to contribute to their increased risk for prostate cancer, say Swedish researchers. The incidence of prostate cancer was higher among brothers of ...
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AstraZeneca says blood thinner met key study goals
BusinessWeek
AstraZeneca PLC's potential blood thinner drug met key goals in a genetic substudy of heart condition patients. Ticagrelor is already under Food and Drug Administration review and would compete with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis' Plavix. ...
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Reporting of healthcare-associated infections applauded and other news . . .
ModernHealthcare.com
Kudos to the CMS and Modern Healthcare for calling attention to the need for more standardized reporting of healthcare-associated infections to help identify and prevent them ("The infection connection," Aug. 9, p. 6). In addition to the transmission ...
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Guidelines for Influenza Vaccination and Antiviral Therapy in Children
Medscape
August 30, 2010 — The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has updated guidelines for use of trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine and antiviral medications to prevent and treat influenza in children, according to an AAP policy statement posted early ...
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