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Many Child Tumours Indicate Increased Maternal Breast Cancer…

Health & Fitness – Scientists at the University of Manchester have found links between many types of childhood cancer and increased breast cancer risk in the mother. Although a previous study found high risk of breast cancer in mothers…

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Aim Is To Ensure Canadians "Butt Out" When Driving In Cars…

Health & Fitness – On Wednesday, January 23, The Lung Association will launch a campaign to help Canadians push their provincial governments to tackle the issue of smoking in cars when children are present. The Association wants…

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Stem cells help mice with muscular dystrophy: study (Reuters)

Health & Fitness – Reuters - A therapy using embryonic stem cells helped restore muscle function in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in children, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

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Swing Set Safety

Health & Fitness – Children's swing sets must be properly selected and assembled to prevent serious injury. Here are recommendations on choosing and assembling a swing set, from the U.S. National Safety Council:

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Mareeba Model Shows That Consultation, Cooperation And Flexibility…

Health & Fitness – A detailed study of the first year of operation of a midwifery-led rural maternity service in Mareeba, North Queensland, provides hope that more rural maternity units can remain viable if there is optimum cooperation…

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Trial Shows Benefits Of Concurrent Pap Smears And Chlamydia…

Health & Fitness – A study conducted in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has shown that the rate of chlamydia screening in eligible women could double if the screening was conducted at the same time the women visit their general…

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Hospital RFID Tags Interfere with Medical Devices: Study

Gadgets & Tech – This probably shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone who's experienced interference of one type or another from a wireless device of some kind. After all, we have all these signals filling the air around us. You…

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Indian Medicinal Plant Acanthus Ilicifolius May Combat Liver…

Health & Fitness – Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world with a poor prognosis. About three quarters of the cases of liver cancer are found in Southeast Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, and…

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Medication Safety At Risk, Australia

Health & Fitness – Two articles in the latest Medical Journal of Australia raise concerns about the safety of medication practices in hospitals, one analysing the reasons for prescribing errors by interns and the other identifying…

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New Way To Produce High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Eye Health…

Health & Fitness – Scientists have developed a potentially powerful new tool in the fight against deficiencies in dietary vitamin A, which cause eye diseases, including blindness, in 40 million children annually, and increased health…

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Prostatitis May Affect Up To One Half Of All Males During…

Health & Fitness – Estimates on the number of males in the United States who will experience prostatitis during their lifetimes range up to 50 percent. Many urologic disease experts feel that from 5 to 10 percent of males are experiencing…

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Anti-genus cancer treatment breakthrough

Health & Fitness – A new anti-genus crab handling could be on the food market within eld after a breakthrough discoreal by Australian scientists in exhilarating the body's immune system of rules. Victorian biotech fellowship…

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Suppressing Overactive Immune System May Help Heart Failure…

Health & Fitness – Dulling a heart failure patient's overactive immune system may reduce his/her chances of dying from any cause, or being hospitalized in future for cardiovascular reasons, according to an article published in The…

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Leukemia Drug Gleevec May Help Patients Of Strokes More…

Health & Fitness – A leukemia drug may help patients to treat strokes in a more effective and safer way, U.S. and Swedish researchers now say. The researchers used the leukemia drug known as imatinib (Gleevec) in mice and found that…

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Anesthesia drugs may heighten post-surgery pain

Health & Fitness – Anesthesia drugs may heighten post-surgery pain

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What Are The Essential Characteristics Of Serum PG In Chinese?

Health & Fitness – Pepsinogen (PG) is a precursor for pepsin, a digestive enzyme specifically produced in the gastric mucosa. Human PG can be classified into two different biochemical and immunological properties, PGI and PGII. Serum…

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Medical care's state of denial

Health & Fitness – Doctors are supposed to prescribe tests and treatments that are medically necessary for their patients. Health insurers are expected to cover that care, while keeping inappropriate expenses in check. But what happens…

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Insight Into Alzheimer's Disease Provided By Engineered…

Health & Fitness – One factor that determines how at risk an individual is of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) is the version of the APOE gene that they carry - those carrying the gene that enables them to make the apoE4…

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Potential For 'Personalized' Asthma Therapy

Health & Fitness – In the last few years, "personalized medicine"- using genetic or other molecular biology-based diagnostic tests to customize treatment for a particular patient - has emerged as a powerful new tool for health care.Therapy…

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Research Shows Poorer DLA Grants For Down's Syndrome Families…

Health & Fitness – A study carried out by researchers at the Peninsula Medical School and the Institute of Child Health (UCL) has revealed that families from an ethnic, non-English speaking background with a child with Down's syndrome…

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Ethics 101 - Patients Who Hide The Truth

Health & Fitness – What if a patient did not tell a doctor all the information they could about their condition/s? Would that be ethically wrong, or should the patients have the right to keep that information to themselves?

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Neutralizing IL-22 Prevents Psoriasis In Mice

Health & Fitness – Psoriasis, which is a chronic disease characterized by the development of red, scaly, raised skin lesions, affects approximately 2% of the population of countries of the Western world. A new study by Lynette Fouser…

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Enjoy Summer Weight Loss

Health & Fitness – There are many ways to help boost your summer weight loss. With so much hype by the weight loss industry, is it sometimes hard to find the real products that do work.

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or so of us are more sensitive to pain

Health & Fitness – A new mind-imagery report confirms that some masses are much more sensitive to hurt than others and should aid doctors in calibrating patients' descriptions of their botheration sensation. 'One of the most…

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