Dairy foods linked to prostate cancer risk
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Men who eat a lot of dairy foods may be increasing their risk of developing prostate cancer, study results suggest. (Source: MedWire News - Consumer Health)
Source: MedWire News - Consumer Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One in five pregnancies terminated across europe each year ... more than the population of cyprus
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The number of babies aborted across Europe each year is more than the population of Cyprus, a study has found. Almost one in five pregnancies across the continent ends in abortion, meaning a foetus is terminated every 27 seconds, according to the report by the Institute for Family Policy (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The gas that reduces blood pressure - but only if you can stand its rotten egg smell
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The gas that gives stink bombs their pungent smell could be a breath of fresh air for patients with high blood pressure. British scientists have created a drug which boosts levels of hydrogen sulphide in the body, widening the arteries (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The martial art which is all the right moves
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T'ai chi, the traditional Chinese martial art combining deep diaphragmatic breathing, relaxation and gentle movement, helps control type 2 diabetes, according to research (Source: the Mail online | Health notes)
Source: the Mail online | Health notes - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Proposed federal rule would ban certain marketing techniques for private medicare plans
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The Bush administration on Thursday proposed new marketing rules for Medicare Advantage comprehensive coverage and drug plans that aim to curb aggressive sales tactics, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, health insurers have been criticized for their "overly aggressive marketing tactics, such as enrolling seniors without explaining what they are getting into." In some cases, beneficiaries lost supplemental coverage or access to their physicians, the Journal reports (Zhang/Fuhrmans, Wall Street Journal, 5/9). Since the Medicare drug benefit was launched in 2006, some beneficiaries and state insurance...
Source: kaisernetwork.org: Health Policy Daily Report - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Daily Health Policy Report Source Type: news
Space telescope recycled for bomb detection
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Compton Gamma Ray Observatory equipment helps to sniff out radioactive sources. (Source: news@nature.com)
Source: news@nature.com - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals
Don't turn your nose up at mouse urine
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Urinary proteins are key to ultra-sensitive artificial noses. (Source: news@nature.com)
Source: news@nature.com - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals
A broad view of quake 'prediction'
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Wide mapping of stress helps to pinpoint when and where the Earth will crack. (Source: news@nature.com)
Source: news@nature.com - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals
Elevated blood sugar in pregnant women increases risks
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Pregnant women with elevated blood sugar have a greater risk of giving birth to babies with health risks similar to those born to women with gestational diabetes. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Arthritis may keep diabetics from needed exercise
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Physical activity is an important part of managing diabetes symptoms. However, a new study says that more than half of adults with diabetes also have arthritis, which can keep them from exercising. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Idea in mortuary science: dissolving bodies with lye
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Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest - dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Arkansas woman pregnant with 18th child
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It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman -- she's pregnant with her 18th child. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Probe blames voip provider in botched 911 call
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An investigation into a botched 911 call that contributed to the death of an 18-month-old Calgary boy has placed the blame on the family's Internet phone provider. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cancer-test inquiry a 'prosecution,' williams says
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A judicial inquiry into hundreds of botched breast-cancer tests in Newfoundland appears to be more of a "prosecution" than an inquiry, Premier Danny Williams said Thursday. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Drugs, teens, pot are a dangerous mix: report
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Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Child viral death toll up to 34 in china
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The death toll from a viral illness that is striking children across China has risen by four to 34, while the number of reported infections jumped to nearly 25,000, state media reported Friday. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The truth behind drug ads
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ABC News Source Type: news
New rule would limit insurers contact with elderly, disabled
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Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Associated Press Source Type: news
Teen marijuana use linked to later illness
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Washington Post Source Type: news
Cool kids can help others avoid smoking
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Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Reuters Source Type: news
Respiratory illness rose in children after katrina hit
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Washington Post Source Type: news
culture-specific asthma education could improve quality of life
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When getting to the doctor is half the battle
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Behavior News Service Source Type: news
Noise in artery could warn of heart risk
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HealthDay News Source Type: news
Diabetes patients are less likely to exercise due to arthritis
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Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bloomberg Source Type: news
Breast cancer tends to grow faster in younger women
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HealthDay News Source Type: news
Young people are intentionally drinking and taking drugs for better sex, european survey finds
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Teenagers and young adults across Europe drink and take drugs as part of deliberate sexual strategies. A third of 16-35 year old males and a quarter of females surveyed are drinking alcohol to increase their chances of sex, while cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis are intentionally used to enhance sexual arousal or prolong sex. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Designer isotopes push the frontier of science
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Designer labels have a lot of cachet -- a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics. The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes -- the relatively new power scientists have to make specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies, according to some physicists. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genetic 'tag team' keeps cells on cycle
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By surveying the activity of thousands of genes at several different time points, researchers have uncovered new evidence that a network of influential genes act as a kind of genetic tag team to orchestrate one of the most fundamental aspects of all life: the cell cycle. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Computed radiography system helps uncover secrets from the past
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Digital medical imaging and information technology is helping The Field Museum discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. A computed radiography system enables the museum -- for the first time -- to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless artifacts in its Anthropology collection. The museum is also using a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) to manage, view and store the growing collection of digital images. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A real-life 'i am legend?' researcher champions development of 'reovirus' as potential treatment for cancer
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A virologists and cancer biologists was on his way to the American Association of Cancer Research in San Diego recently when he decided to check out the in-flight movie I Am Legend. The premise of the sci-fi horror movie is that a virus successfully used to fight cancer in clinical trials has gone out of control, pushing humankind to the edge of extinction. Early on in the movie, survivor Robert Neville (Will Smith) replays a three-year-old TV interview which foreshadows the impending disaster. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Photosynthetic dimmer switch for plants identified
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In a study of the molecular mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from oxidation damage should they absorb too much sunlight during photosynthesis, researchers have discovered a molecular "dimmer switch" that helps control the flow of solar energy moving through the system of light harvesting proteins. This discovery holds important implications for the future design of artificial photosynthesis systems that could provide the world with a sustainable and secure source of energy. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Improving anxiety treatment through the help of brain imaging: a potential future treatment strategy
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Wouldn't it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication? This question is important because research studies provide information about how groups of patients tend to respond to treatments, but inevitably, differences among groups of patients with the same diagnosis mean that findings about groups of patients may not apply to individuals from those groups. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How light squeezes through small holes: detailed for first time
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How does light pass through a tiny hole? For the first time, scientists have succeeded in mapping this process in detail. Their research also promises a significant improvement in Terahertz microscopy in the long term, a potentially interesting new imaging technique, and Terahertz microspectroscopy, a technique for identifying tiny quantities of substances using light. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Speedier precise cancer radiotherapy now available
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RapidArc is the next-generation of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) offering radiation delivery up to eight times faster than conventional IMRT. The first US patient to be given the new therapy is an Alabama man with early-stage prostate cancer whose treatment started May 6. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Silicon's effect on sunflowers studied
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As the popularity of sunflowers grows among commercial growers and everyday gardeners, scientists are looking for new supplements and growing methods to enhance production and quality of this celebrated annual. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Virus mimics human protein to hijack cell division machinery
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Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
When bears steal human food, mom's not to blame
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Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society found that the black bears that become habituated to human food and garbage may not be learning these behaviors exclusively from their mothers, as widely assumed. Bears that steal human food sources are just as likely to form these habits on their own or pick them up from unrelated, "bad influence" bears. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Taking the sex out of sexual health screening
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Young women would accept age-based screening for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia, but would want this test to be offered to everyone, rather than to people "singled out" according to their sexual history. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Newest greet model updates environmental impacts of specific fuels and automobiles
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The newest version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation model will provide researchers with even more tools to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of new transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies. The newest update released May 9 will allow scientists to model combustion of ethanol produced from Brazilian sugarcane and used by U.S. automobiles; production and use of bio-butanol as a potential transportation fuel; and production and use of biodiesel and renewable diesel via hydrogenation, coal/biomass co-feeding for Fischer-Tropsch diesel production and variou...
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Swedish space gym being tested by astronauts
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The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is presently testing a Swedish space gym. The aim is to counteract muscle atrophy and osteoporosis in astronauts. Astronauts who spend a long time in space can face problems when they return to earth. Weightlessness atrophies the muscles and decalcifies the skeleton. It doesn't help to "pump iron." Barbells and dumbbells are also weightless on a space voyage. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Arthritis is a potential barrier to physical activity for adults with diabetes
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People with diagnosed diabetes are nearly twice as likely to have arthritis, and the inactivity caused by arthritis hinders the successful management of both diseases, according to a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report study. This is one of the first studies of its kind to look at the relationship between arthritis and diabetes and the outcomes associated with physical activity. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Federal polar bear research critically flawed, forecasting expert asserts
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Research done by the US Department of the Interior to determine if global warming threatens the polar bear population is so flawed that it cannot be used to justify listing the polar bear as an endangered species, according to a new study. The Interior Department has been ordered to make a determination by May 15. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Suspected cause of type 1 diabetes caught 'red-handed' for the first time
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Scientists working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes. They caught the immune cells, known as dendritic cells, "red-handed": they were carrying insulin and fragments of insulin-producing cells known as beta cells. This can be the first step in a misdirected immune system attack that destroys the beta cells, causing diabetes. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Justice in the brain: equity and efficiency are encoded differently
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Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share? A study appearing in Science finds that most people choose the latter, and that the brain responds in unique ways to inefficiency and inequity. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Teen 'self medication' for depression leads to more serious mental illness, new report reveals
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Millions of American teens report experiencing weeks of hopelessness and loss of interest in normal daily activities and many of these depressed teens are using marijuana and other drugs, making their situation worse, according to a new White House report. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nasa successfully completes first series of ares engine tests
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NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V rockets, key components of NASA's Constellation Program. Ares I will launch the Orion spacecraft that will take astronauts to the International Space Station and then to the moon by 2020. The Ares V will carry cargo and components into orbit for trips to the moon and later to Mars. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Previously unseen switch regulates breast cancer response to estrogen
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A tiny modification called methylation on estrogen receptors prolongs the life of these growth-driving molecules in breast cancer cells. Most breast cancers contain estrogen receptors, which enable them to grow in the presence of the hormone estrogen. Their presence can determine whether tumors will respond to the estrogen-blocking drug tamoxifen. The finding will help researchers sort out how mutations change the estrogen receptor's function and allow some breast cancers to resist tamoxifen. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Biological weapons to control cane toad invasion in australia
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New research on cane toads in Northern Australia has discovered a way to control the cane toad invasion using parasites and toad communication signals. Biologists says that controlling toads has been difficult as things that kill them will often kill frogs. Professor Shine and his team studied cane toads in Queensland that lagged behind the invasion front and found they were infected with a lungworm parasite which slows down adults and, in laboratory tests, kills around 30% of baby toads. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Diet high in saturated fat contributes to prostate cancer treatment failure, study suggests
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Men who consumed high saturated fat diets (HSF) were younger and had higher BMIs at diagnosis than men with who consumed low saturated fat diets (LSF). Saturated fats were most commonly consumed as beef steaks, cheese and cheese spreads, hamburgers and cheeseburgers, eggs, ice cream and salad dressings. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
