Monday, October 25, 2010

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Study: Alzheimer's risk spikes 157% with heavy smoking
USA Today
Heavy smoking in midlife more than doubles your odds of developing Alzheimer's disease, a Kaiser Permanente study said Monday. The study is the first to examine the long-term consequences of heavy smoking on Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, ...
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Health Officials Expect Cholera to Spread in Haitian Capital
Wall Street Journal
By BETSY MCKAY And MIKE ESTERL International health officials said they are seeing fewer new cases of cholera in Haiti, as prevention measures and an influx of aid help slow the spread of the disease. Nonetheless, health officials said they still ...
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Washington: High-Alcohol Drink Sickened Students
New York Times
By AP An investigation has determined that Four Loko, a high-alcohol caffeinated drink, sickened Central Washington University students at an off-campus party this month, resulting in nine hospitalizations. Partygoers had blood-alcohol levels that ...
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AIG's CEO Robert Benmosche undergoing 'aggressive chemotherapy' for cancer
Los Angeles Times
Robert Benmosche, AIG's chief executive, is reportedly undergoing what's been termed "aggressive chemotherapy," but what is aggressive chemotherapy? Details are scant about Benmosche's condition at the moment, much less his type of cancer – or ...
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Los Angeles Times
Long Odds Seen For Diet Drugs
Wall Street Journal
By THOMAS GRYTA The FDA's rejection of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Eisai Co.'s weight-loss drug, lorcaserin, highlights the difficulty in developing medications that would likely be taken by millions of people, many of whom don't have any current ...
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Black Men With High Blood Pressure, See Your Barber?
TIME
By Meredith Melnick Monday, October 25, 2010 | 0 comments Black men have the highest rate of hypertension-related death of any group in the US (three times the rate of white men), partly because high blood pressure goes untreated in so many African ...
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Novartis: meningitis vaccine effective in infants
BusinessWeek
Novartis AG said Monday that new data from a late-stage study showed the company's Menveo meningitis vaccine prompted an immune response in infants. Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the membrane around the brain and spine. ...
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Aspirin May Help Patients Beat Prostate Cancer
BusinessWeek
By Amanda Gardner MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- One of the world's most ubiquitous and pedestrian drugs -- aspirin -- may cut the risk of dying for men who have prostate cancer that has not yet spread beyond the gland, a new study suggests. ...
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