Thursday, December 2, 2010

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Ideal Weight Or BMI Linked To Much Lower Risk Of Premature Death
Medical News Today
Non-smoking adults with a Body Mass Index (BMI) from 20 to 24.9 have a much lower risk of premature death than overweight or obese individuals, as well as extremely thin people, researchers wrote in the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). ...
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MRI Scan Detects Autism Biomarkers In Brain
Medical News Today
University of Utah and Harvard researchers have developed a brain scan test that is able to detect individuals with high functioning autism with 94 per cent accuracy: they hope their method, which uses MRI to measure deviations in circuitry in key ...
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AIDS/HIV facts, fiction addressed
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Rick Tibbott Maria Reyes-Robio reads a story of someone with HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's United Methodist Church for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 2010 in Waterloo, Iowa. (RICK TIBBOTT/Courier Staff Photographer) WATERLOO --- Imagine, for just a few seconds, ...
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Annual Mammogram age 40 to 50 Lowers Mastectomy Rates
eMaxHealth
Women diagnosed with breast cancer, between age 40 and 50, have been found to have lower rates of mastectomy from annual mammogram screening. The findings are presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) that ...
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HHS calls for online apps competition to help meet 10-year health goals
Government Health IT
By Mary Mosquera As part of its new roadmap to improve healthcare quality, the Health & Human Services Department has challenged developers to create applications for professionals who are working on national health objectives and with state and ...
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Mylanta, AlternaGel Recalled Over Faulty Labels
WebMD
By Daniel J. DeNoon Dec. 2, 2010 -- All lots of Mylanta liquid products and one lot of AlternaGel liquid have been recalled by Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals. The recall affects only retail and wholesale sales of the product. ...
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Half of Pregnant Women Got Flu Shot Last Season
MedPage Today
By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Influenza vaccination coverage for pregnant women was much better last season than in years past, the CDC reported. Among 10 states, the median vaccination rate for 2009-10 was 50.7% for the trivalent seasonal ...
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Man Doses Himself With a Parasite for Intestinal Problems
ABC News
By COURTNEY HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit Catching an intestinal parasite is not usually considered desirable, but for a California man with severe gastrointestinal problems, dosing himself with worms was the answer to his prayers. ...
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