Friday, September 10, 2010

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FDA cracks down on 5 makers of e-cigarettes
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The US Food and Drug Administration sent warnings to five makers of electronic cigarettes for marketing them illegally as stop-smoking aids and said on Thursday it intends to regulate the products as drugs. ...
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Simple Brain Scan Reveals Maturity of Developing Brains
Voice of America
A study describing the use of MRI brain scans to track mental maturity is published this week in the journal Science. A simple five-minute session in a brain scanner can accurately measure how far a child's brain has progressed on its path to maturity. ...
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Reform Law to Slightly Boost Health Spending by 2019
WebMD
By Todd Zwillich Sept. 10, 2010 -- President Obama's controversial health care reform law will have only a modest effect on the nation's overall medical bills by 2019, according to government estimates released Thursday. Overall spending on health care ...
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Health Buzz: Most Americans Skimp on Fruits and Veggies
U.S. News & World Report
By Angela Haupt Perhaps a trip to the salad bar—or an orchard—is due: Most Americans aren't eating enough fruits and vegetables, new federal statistics show. A decade ago, 34 percent of people ate fruit at least twice a day, meeting the government's ...
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More Body Fat May Up Death Risk With Colon Cancer
MedPage Today
By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Explain to interested patients that a higher waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio were linked to increased risk of death from colon cancer in postmenopausal women. Note that weight measurements were ...
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