| Vitamin D May Help Curb Breast Cancer, Study Finds |
| -- Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found _ adding to evidence the "sunshine vitamin" has anti-cancer benefits. The results are sure to renew arguments about whet...
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| U.S. to Send N. Korea 500,000 Tons of Food Aid |
| The Bush administration said yesterday it will restart food aid to North Korea and provide it with more than 500,000 tons of food -- the largest one-year amount since 1999.
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| Official Urged Fewer Diagnoses of PTSD |
| A psychologist who helps lead the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments for the condition.
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| Judge Rejects Deal on Disabled |
| A federal judge rejected yesterday a proposed agreement between the District and the Justice Department that would have established programs and deadlines intended to improve health care for the developmentally disabled in the city's group homes.
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| Healthy Competition |
| Sometime this summer, Judge Claude Hilton of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria will have to answer a seemingly simple question:
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| Survival of quake victims depends on many factors |
| NEW YORK -- A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are pulling out victims days after they were buried by a powerful...
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| United Way to Target Health, Education and Income |
| The United Way of America, alarmed at the nation's fraying safety net, will announce today that it will direct its giving toward ambitious 10-year goals that would cut in half the high school dropout rate and the number of working families struggling financially.
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| More Americans are taking prescription medications |
| TRENTON, N.J. -- For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.
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| Man With Alzheimer's Fights 'Family Disease' |
| When Chuck Jackson takes his seat this morning before a U.S. Senate committee, he'll not lack for names or faces as he talks about the devastation that a disease called Alzheimer's has visited upon his family. His grandfather John. A dozen aunts and uncles. His mother, Rachel; a brother, Danny. P...
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| Exercise May Protect Girls From Future Breast Cancer |
| WASHINGTON -- Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years _ starting as young as age 12 _ can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their risk of breast cancer after menopause.
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| The Less the Education, the Higher the Risk of Dying Early |
| The difference in death rates between highly educated and poorly educated people in the United States is very wide and growing wider, according to new research.
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| Study: Older Brains Don't Benefit From Painkillers |
| CHICAGO -- Results from a large government experiment are dimming hopes that two common painkillers can prevent Alzheimer's disease or slow mental decline in older people.
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| Teens 16% of Crash Victims, U.S. Says |
| Traffic injuries on the nation's highways have declined every year since 1995, but teenagers continue to be disproportionately affected by crashes, according to figures released yesterday by the U.S. Transportation Department.
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| Accepting Change |
| In the dark, Oscar-nominated film "The Savages," Wendy Savage cries out, "We're horrible, horrible people," as she and her older brother, Jon, consider to which of Buffalo's dreary nursing homes to commit their octogenarian father.
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| Thinking Prevention |
| Emilia Uriarte and Mariluz Garcia are just the types of patients that Elmer Huerta loves to see. The first hasn't been to a doctor in 10 years; the second has been a faithful patient of the cancer prevention specialist for the past seven.
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| Spreading The Word |
| Once, word of disciplinary action against a popular local dentist -- if it surfaced publicly at all -- might not have gone much beyond the back pages of a newsletter published by the state board of dental examiners.
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| A Place To Pump |
| For many new mothers returning to work, one accessory is essential: the breast pump.
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| Weight Loss for All the World to See |
| A growing number of successful losers keep accountable by blogging about their weight loss efforts. In today's Lean Plate Club column, meet Shauna Reid--also known as Dietgirl. (I was delighted to learn that the Lean Plate Club is one of the things that helped inspire Shauna's efforts.) By the wa...
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| Need Encouragement to Shed Some Pounds? Blogs May Help. |
| Shauna Reid, Gerry Pugliese and Deborah Kosnett don't seem to have much in common. They've never met and live in cities hundreds of miles apart. But they share one activity that has changed their lives: blogging about weight loss.
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| The Right Time to Make a Move |
| Sometimes timing is everything. The decision my husband, Phil, and I made last year -- to sell our high-rise condo in a friendly and lively area of North Bethesda and move to a retirement community -- was one of those instances.
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| Changing the Drill |
| Q I run 4-6 days a week and recently added yoga with light weights (three-pound dumbbells). I always see a recommendation to do weight training every other day. Does that still apply if I am working light weights and holding poses, rather than lifting to fatigue? It's not like I have muscle soren...
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| Burma Faces 'Public Health Catastrophe,' Charity Says |
| BANGKOK, May 11 -- An estimated 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday, as survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other help.
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| Families will make case for vaccine link to autism |
| WASHINGTON -- Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court.
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| 'What Is Normal and What Is Perfect?' |
| JUNEAU, Alaska -- The results of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's prenatal testing were in, and the doctor's tone was ominous: "You need to come to the office so we can talk about it."
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| Heavier Drinking At an Earlier Age |
| VIENNA -- A 13-year-old schoolgirl in southern Austria celebrated the start of her spring break with a bottle of schnapps.
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| In Custody, in Pain |
| FLORENCE, Ariz. -- Underneath her baggy jail-issue pants, Yong Sun Harvill feels the soft lump just below her left knee. Sometimes it tingles. Sometimes it is numb. Like her cancer felt when it arrived behind the knee a few years ago.
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| Insurance model follows American tradition |
| WASHINGTON -- Call it Obamacare or call it Clintoncare. But don't call it "socialized medicine."
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| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 11 May 2008 11:55:56 EDT) |
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| System of Neglect |
| Near midnight on a California spring night, armed guards escorted Yusif Osman into an immigration prison ringed by concertina wire at the end of a winding, isolated road.
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| FTC Moves to Block Merger of Inova, Prince William Hospital |
| The Federal Trade Commission and Virginia Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell said yesterday they would attempt to block the planned merger between Northern Virginia's largest hospital chain and Prince William Hospital in Manassas.
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| Adult Concerns on Child Care Deal |
| There's a fight brewing around sandboxes nationwide. But the combatants don't wear Pull-Ups. Instead, they sport BlackBerrys and picket signs and talk of portfolios and payouts.
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| Shuffleboard and Bingo Are So Last Year |
| Girard Quinlan, 78, used to bowl during his high school years. Yesterday, he watched some of his friends bowl on a Wii video game at the nonprofit IONA Senior Services in Northwest Washington, but he didn't get up to join in.
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| Respiratory Illness Rose in Children After Katrina Hit |
| Hurricane Katrina provoked increased complaints to doctors of pneumonia, bronchitis and other lower respiratory illnesses among 144 children studied in Mississippi, according to a report released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| Teen Marijuana Use Linked to Later Illness |
| Teenagers who smoke marijuana put themselves at risk for future mental illness and higher rates of depression, according to a report to be released today by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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| New disease outbreaks in China; 15K children infected |
| BEIJING -- New outbreaks in China reported Wednesday put the number of children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease above 15,000 and the death toll has risen to at least 28 across the country.
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| Study: Restaurant Tobacco Bans Influence Teen Smoking |
| BOSTON -- A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less likely to become regular smokers than those in communities with no bans or weak ones, the researcher...
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| Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study |
| ATLANTA -- People who sleep fewer than six hours a night _ or more than nine _ are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies.
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| Officials Testify on Disaster Plans |
| Two Bush administration Cabinet members yesterday acknowledged gaps in the capability of U.S. hospitals to deal with a mass-casualty terrorist attack or other disaster, but they said a congressional effort to block pending Medicaid cuts will not fix the problem.
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| Pandemic Flu Threat Remains Substantial, Health Experts Say |
| GENEVA -- The world still faces a substantial threat of a flu pandemic and countries need to speed up preparations for a global outbreak, health experts said Tuesday.
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| A Breath of Hope |
| Derrick Farley, a 29-year-old Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., has seen many people die. He served in Iraq for three year-long tours of duty with only six-month breaks between them. He remembers driving trucks along the dirt roads of Tikrit, ever alert for telltale signs of a sniper or...
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| Five Doctors, Stumped |
| A. Bruce Munro wonders how things might have turned out if he hadn't lost it and dialed 911.
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| He's a Man, as Charged |
| The battle that sent high school junior Gary Durant to jail was over in minutes. Two rival groups in the Carver Terrace complex of Northeast Washington traded gunfire. One young man was killed. Durant and his buddies fled.
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| Should You Trust That Body Fat Test? |
| Depending on which Japanese conglomerate you believe, either I have the body of a 25-year-old or I'm pushing 70. Which is disconcerting either way, because I was a mess when I was 25, and I'd prefer to let 70 wait its turn.
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| All Substitutes Are Not Equal |
| Mary Poppins knew this secret: We are born with an innate preference for sweetness. As she liked to sing: "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."
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| Share Your Medical Mystery |
| The Washington Post's Sandra G. Boodman is looking for challenging medical cases -- ones that have been resolved but in which the patient's symptoms were puzzling to doctors or suggested an immediate diagnosis that would have been wrong. Patients must have medical records documenting their care, ...
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| Doctors to reassess antibiotics for 'chronic Lyme' disease |
| HARTFORD, Conn. -- Patients who believe they suffer long-term problems from Lyme disease are claiming victory over a national doctors group. The Infectious Diseases Society of America has agreed to review its guidelines, which say there's no evidence long-term antibiotics can cure "chronic Lyme"...
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| Meat That May Contain Fatal Germ Is Recalled |
| Gourmet Boutique recalled about 286,320 pounds of fresh and frozen meat and poultry after regulators found it might be contaminated with potentially fatal listeria germs, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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| Surgery Shows Promise For Treatment of Diabetes |
| Rocco Turso was injecting himself with insulin three times a day, swallowing pills twice daily and restricting his diet. But his diabetes was still out of control, blurring his vision, making his feet numb and sapping his energy. So he decided to try an experimental operation. Within days, his blood...
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| Sharing the Gift of Life |
| On the day that Jamie Robyn Thompson was to share her 14th birthday celebration with family and the woman who gave birth to her, a movie spoofing surrogate mothers as trashy opportunists opened, and the news was rife with stories of infertile women "outsourcing" childbirth to poor women in India.
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| Pentagon Plans National Mental Health Campaign |
| WASHINGTON -- Senior military officers could be talking about their emotional struggles on YouTube and MySpace this year, in a Pentagon campaign to urge troops into counseling for wartime mental problems.
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| Speeding Up Safety |
| After a government panel said there was "some concern" that the chemical bisphenol A could be harmful to infants and small children, it took less than a week for Wal-Mart and Toys R Us to announce that they would stop selling baby bottles that were made with it.
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| Speakers Express Division on Bill To Mandate Health-Care Coverage |
| District residents with chronic illnesses, representatives of HMOs and convenience store owners testified yesterday at a D.C. Council hearing on far-reaching legislation that would mandate health-care coverage for all residents.
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| CDC Cites Largest U.S. Resurgence of Measles Since 2001 |
| At least four outbreaks of measles are underway around the United States, the largest resurgence in years of the once-common childhood disease, federal health officials reported yesterday.
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| Md. Insurance Law Draws Praise From Young Adults |
| University of Maryland sophomore Laura Calabrese is not certain what she wants to do when she graduates in two years. But she is thankful that because of recent changes in state law, she'll be able to stay on her parents' health insurance until she is 25, allowing her to consider a volunteer or...
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| Military Stressing Veterans' Counseling |
| Applicants for government security clearances will no longer have to declare whether they sought mental health counseling after serving in combat zones, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced yesterday.
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| 9/11 Counselors at Risk for Secondary Trauma |
| FRIDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Social workers run the risk of suffering severe psychological stress from hearing too many stories of trauma, according to a new study that looked at people who counseled others impacted by the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York City.
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| Report Questions Quality of Medical Care for Workers in War Zones |
| An increasing number of federal employees are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it is not clear that the government's policies go far enough to ensure they receive the best medical care or the most appropriate benefits, according to a congressional report released yesterday.
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| New EPA Standards Would Cut Amount Of Lead in the Air |
| The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday proposed tightening the federal limits for lead in the air, but the proposal fell short of what its own scientists said is required to protect public health.
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| Region's Air Still a Problem, Study Finds |
| The Washington-Baltimore region still has one of the worst air pollution problems in the country, ranking among the top 10 metropolitan areas for smog and soot, according to a report from the American Lung Association.
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| New Policy Prolongs EPA Chemical Reviews |
| The Bush administration has changed Environmental Protection Agency reviews of chemicals in a way that will delay scientific assessments of their health risks and open the process to politicization, congressional investigators said yesterday.
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| Senators Propose Ban on Chemical in Plastics |
| Senate Democrats introduced a bill yesterday that would ban a controversial chemical found in plastics from all products made for infants and children up to age 7 and would direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the health risks the chemical may pose to both children and...
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| No One Kind Fits All |
| "Don't forget to wear your helmet," parents tell their kids now that warmer temperatures are luring them outside to cycle, skateboard, rock climb, kayak and ride horses. And with good reason. "Helmets basically keep your skull from cracking," says pediatric neuropsychologist Gerard Gioia, directo...
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| Nap Time |
| I never used to be a napper. In fact, daytime slumber was virtually beyond a congenitally wired type like me. My buddies would catch 40 winks on the long bus ride home from our high school, but for me that was out of the question. With age, however, my metabolism has changed. After the double wha...
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| FDA Faulted for Approving Studies of Artificial Blood |
| A new analysis concludes that the Food and Drug Administration approved experiments with artificial blood substitutes even after studies showed that the controversial products posed a clear risk of causing heart attacks and death.
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| Altered Viruses Reversed Progressive Blindness, Studies Say |
| Three young adults barely able to see because of a congenital and progressive form of blindness have regained modest amounts of vision after getting genetically engineered viruses injected into their eyes, the leaders of two independent studies reported yesterday.
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| Salmonella From Your Pet? |
| When we hear about salmonella these days, we're more likely to think raw eggs than reptiles. But this article in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reminds us that your family's pet turtles (and other reptiles) can make people just as sick as an undercooked omelet...
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| Studies on Chemical In Plastics Questioned |
| Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about a chemical compound that is central to the multibillion-dollar plastics industry, the Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe largely because of two studies,...
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| D.C.'s 'Breast Whisperer' |
| Laura Osuri's eyes, bloodshot from lack of sleep, were rimmed with tears as 2-week-old Isaac slept in his car seat carrier, oblivious to his mother's worry and frustration.
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| An Alternative to Medicinal Marijuana |
| SUNDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists think they may have found a way to harness marijuana's medicinal powers without unleashing the plant's memory-robbing properties.
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| U.S. Scrambles to Address International Food Crisis |
| The Bush administration and Congress have been caught flat-footed by rapidly escalating global food prices and are scrambling to respond to a crisis that they increasingly view as a threat to U.S. national security, according to government officials, congressional staffers and human rights experts.
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| Eradicating Malaria Worldwide Seen as a Distant Goal, at Best |
| A generation after the first attempt failed, people are once more talking seriously about eradicating malaria.
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| Southwest Va.'s Mortality Mystery |
| RADFORD, Va. -- Esther Britt lay in an oversize casket the color of an overcast sky.
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| Cola May Be Bad to the Bones |
| SATURDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- While enjoying a cola or two every day might seem harmless enough, recent research suggests that those tasty drinks could be compromising your bone health.
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| Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home |
| BUENOS AIRES, April 25 -- Inside a busy church hall early Friday morning, many of the 60 men waiting for a free breakfast tilted their heads upward to watch news flashes periodically scroll across a wall-mounted television.
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| FDA Plans to Examine Scope of Complaints About Lasik |
| In response to complaints of double vision, blurry vision and other complications following popular laser surgery to improve eyesight, the Food and Drug Administration is looking for ways to better educate patients about the possible risks and to assess the scope of the problems, an official said...
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| More Money for Needle Exchanges |
| Needle-exchange efforts in the District will expand significantly by summer as $494,000 in city funding -- the first local appropriation allowed in a decade -- begins flowing to four organizations on the front line of the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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| Asleep on the Job, and Proud of It. Sort of. |
| Sometimes in life it's best to come clean about something you've hidden from all but your closest friends. So here goes: I nap at work.
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| Think of It as an Exercise, Not a Yawn |
| Q I bought a 30-minute resistance-cord video. I really like it, but the weird thing is that at the beginning of my routine, I start yawning a great deal. At first I thought I was just tired, but it happens every time I start exercising. Any explanation for that?
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| A Too-Good-to-Be-True Nutrient? |
| Imagine a nutrient that could help prevent cancer, heart disease and tuberculosis, preserve bones, and thwart autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile diabetes.
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| Heart Pump Creates Life-Death Ethical Dilemmas |
| After bypass surgery and two heart attacks, the 62-year-old's heart was failing. Desperate, he grasped at his last hope: a surgically implanted heart pump. But following infections, kidney failure and other complications, along with months in the hospital, he returned home weaker than ever.
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| Rockville Firm Wants to Give Cancer a Nanotech Poison |
| Nanoparticles are seriously small. How small? If you have hair available on your head, take a strand -- a single strand -- in your fingertips. If you line up the smallest nanoparticles side by side, you would need 10,000 of them to form the width of that strand.
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| For Children, a Better Beginning |
| In a wide-ranging look at how children have fared in their first decade of life, a study to be released today offers a promising picture of American childhood: Sixth-graders feel safer at school. Reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds. More preschoolers are vaccinated. Fewer are poisoned ...
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| Take Two on Time Off |
| This year marks the 15th anniversary of the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act, which made it possible for many workers to take unpaid job-protected time off to care for their newborn children or sick relatives. But instead of celebrating, workers' rights advocates and the Bush administration are...
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| Ban on Genetic-Test Bias May Pass Senate |
| Capping 13 years of political wrangling, the Senate today is slated to pass landmark legislation that would prevent employers and health insurance companies from discriminating against people on the basis of genetic test results.
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| For Women, the Wineglass Is Half Full |
| Raising a glass of wine and wishing "Salud!" -- Health! -- is one of life's many pleasures.
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| Clothing Retailers Settle With Safety Panel |
| Eight companies, including Neiman Marcus and Kohl's department stores, have agreed to pay a total of $320,000 in civil penalties for selling clothing with drawstrings that may entangle children.
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| Food Crisis Is Depicted As 'Silent Tsunami' |
| LONDON, April 22 -- More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a "silent tsunami" of sharply rising food prices, which have sparked riots around the world and threaten U.N.-backed feeding programs for 20 million children, the top U.N. food official said Tuesday.
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| The Plastics Revolution |
| When people say plastics are everywhere, they really mean everywhere: in the containers that hold your food; in the pipes that carry your water; in the bottles you use to feed your infant; in windows frames, shower curtains and raincoats; on your head in the form of safety helmets; on your face i...
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| Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women |
| For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women.
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| Taking a Kid's-Eye View Of Cosmetic Surgery |
| The hardcover book by board-certified plastic surgeon Michael A. Salzhauer, published by Big Tent Books and available for purchase online, seeks to answer the insistent questions posed by some young children: Why is Mommy's nose smaller? Where did her tummy go? And what's with all those bandages?
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| Beware That Glass of Wine |
| Wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages are often touted for their heart health benefits. But if you're a woman, there's a downside to lifting your glass: Every sip of alcohol raises breast cancer risk slightly as you'll learn in today's Lean Plate Club column.
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| New Data Link Heparin Deaths to Chinese Batches, FDA Says |
| Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday they have new evidence that links hundreds of serious adverse reactions and scores of deaths among patients given the blood thinner heparin to a man-made contaminant introduced during production in China.
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| Brushed Off No Longer |
| Call it the revolt of the dental hygienists. After years of working under dentists' strict oversight, some are eager to get out from under those supervisory thumbs.
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| Science Is Leading Us to More Answers, but It's Also Misleading Us |
| Be careful what you wish for. That is the unexpected lesson of the past decade of biomedical research, which has been characterized by an overwhelming abundance of interesting things to study and powerful ways to study them.
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| A Life Worth Living |
| Recently, I've been dwelling on death. Not death with a capital D, but patients who died on my watch during my early years as a doctor. Some of them will haunt me for the rest of my life, I suspect, especially those who died young.
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| Who Needs a Drill Sergeant When You've Got a Few Buddies? |
| Like so many good ideas, it began with a martini. Karen Holmes and some of her friends were chatting over cocktails about their experience with exercise "boot camps." Several agreed they found the order-barking, rain-or-shine ethic too intense. They felt the same way about the workouts. They want...
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