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West Nile Virus Could Hit Flooded States
As summer comes, Americans will have to contend once again with the West Nile virus. For the flooded states in the Midwest, the West Nile could pose real problems as the standing water becomes ideal breeding ground for thousands of mosquitoes – the transmitters of the virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

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Are You Sleep Deprived?
Majority of Americans are having much less sleep than what the body needs to be healthy and have normal functioning, according to a physician doing research for the American Sleep Association. This is corroborated by many surveys and research studies undertaken in recent years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that ...

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Risk of Lung Cancer Equal for Both Sexes
A study that involved over 460,000 men and women has found that women and men smokers have equal chances of getting lung cancer. The results of the study have been published online in The Lancet Oncology. Until this large-scale study undertaken by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), there had been debates about whether women who smoked ...

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Know the Signs of Sudden Heart Attack
Politicians and journalists were shocked at the sudden death Friday of a popular and beloved journalist, Tim Russert. He had collapsed in his network’s Washington office and died suddenly. The cause: plaque that had built up in his artery had ruptured the blood vessel, resulting in a coronary thrombosis. This is commonly called a sudden ...

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Mercury Dental Fillings Get FDA Warning
The FDA agreed to update its website to inform consumers that the mercury in metal dental fillings can pose a risk to the health of pregnant women, fetuses, and children. The agreement is part of a settlement on a lawsuit filed by consumer advocacy groups. In addition, the FDA has also promised to come out with a more specific ruling by July ...

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Pollution Particles Damage Arteries
A new study by University of Michigan researchers has found that particulate matter in air pollution cause increases in blood pressure levels and damage the functioning of blood vessels within 24 hours. This may be the reason air pollution triggers heart attacks, stroke, and other cardiovascular (CV) events. Particulate matter (PM) is ...

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LASIK: Blurred Outlook?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has convened its advisory board on ophthalmic devices and scheduled a hearing to review the popular surgical procedure for improving one’s eyesight, known as LASIK (for Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis). There have been complaints of double vision, dry eyes, night blindness, and ...

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Smoking, Drinking Hasten Alzheimer’s Onset
People who drink or smoke heavily develop Alzheimer’s disease a few years sooner than those with more moderate habits, according to a new study presented to the participants of the American Academy of Neurology in Chicago on Wednesday.The study involved 938 people, all at least age 60, who had been diagnosed with ...

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Is Treated Sludge Really Safe?
A Senate committee is set to investigate a research study funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency on the possibility that sewage sludge might be useful in preventing lead poisoning.Treated sludge from sewage plants was spread on lawns of poor ...

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Is Mumps Making A Comeback?
After years of very few reported incidences in the United States, mumps very suddenly made a comeback in 2006, according to a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Mumps is a viral disease. The symptoms may be mild, with only a slight fever ...

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Tattoo, Carving and Health Issues
Tattooing once was the mark of the extreme rebel against social conventions, the ultimate means of self expression. Not anymore. Young girls and grandmothers love to show off tattooed figures and characters on their bodies. Tattooing is no longer unconventional. Those not content with a tattoo now take more extreme techniques of body art ...

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Convention Attendees Hit By Norovirus
Sixty-five (65) people were stricken with stomach flu at the Reagan National Airport, as they were waiting for their flights home. They had just attended a medical convention Thursday held at the new Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Prince George’s County, Maryland. ...

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Simpler CPR Method May Help More People
The American Heart Association (AHA) has made a major change in its recommended CPR guidelines. The AHA is now promoting hands-only CPR as the first option for helping people who suddenly collapse (usually victims of cardiac arrest). Hands-only CPR is simpler because it involves simply making rapid (about 100 times a minute), deep presses ...

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CDC Notes Rise in Kidney Hospitalizations
The number of U.S. hospitalizations attributed to kidney disease has increased fourfold between 1980 and 2005, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control.There were only 416,000 hospitalizations in 1980 and this rose to 1.6 million in 2005. Hospitalizations are different from patients, because hospitalizations ...

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FDA Nears Identification of Heparin Contaminant
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that they may soon be able to identify a contaminant found in 20 of 28 samples (over 70 percent) of an active ingredient used in producing heparin. The ingredient was produced in China. The FDA said that once they know exactly the nature of this ‘heparin-like’ contaminant ...

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Safety Problems Cited in Clinics
A Nevada clinic linked to an outbreak of hepatitis C may be just an indication of a much bigger problem involving safety procedures at clinics throughout the rest of the country, warned the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An endoscopy center in Southern Nevada was shut down last Friday following findings...

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Is That Cosmetic Doctor For Real?
Every year, Americans shell out over $11 billion for various cosmetic procedures such as collagen injections and Botox treatments. Increasingly, these procedures are being performed outside of traditional medical facilities and doctor’s offices. Instead, people are getting them done in salons and spas - and treatment parties. ...

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Are There Bugs On Your Purse?
Tens of thousands of disease-causing bacteria could be present on your handbag, especially the bottom, according to researchers. There have been a number of studies done on the handbag - still the most indispensable accessory for a majority of women. These studies have come up with the same conclusion: the ubiquitous handbag is high in ...

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Metabolic Syndrome-Diet Soda: Is There A Link?
An epidemiological study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers on more than 9,500 people of both sexes, ages 45 to 64, found a significant correlation between the incidence of metabolic syndrome and diet soda consumption.The research tracked the health of the study participants over a nine-year period and recorded information about...

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Stronger Warning Asked for Botox
A consumer group has filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking that product labels for Botox and a similar drug, Myobloc, should contain stronger warnings about its potential hazards, and that patients should be given printed details of its risks.The petition apparently is a reaction to the reports that 16 persons...

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Does Caffeine Increase Miscarriage Risk?
Long considered to be safe, having two cups of coffee a day during pregnancy may actually double the risk of miscarriage, according to a new study. About 15 to 18 previous research studies have shown that there is a link between use of caffeine during pregnancy and the chances of miscarriage. It was not clear though whether the findings were...

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When Do Safety Checks Become Research?
Nearly eight years ago, the U.S. Institute of Medicine released a report, bearing the title To Err Is Human, which said that about 98,000 patients a year in the U.S. died from preventable medical errors. Essentially the IOM report revealed that a number of hospital deaths could be traced to the failure of doctors and nurses to take routine...

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Do Antipsychotic Drugs Really Work?
Antipsychotic drugs were originally developed to treat schizophrenia, but many doctors have routinely prescribed them to pacify aggressive behavior in various situations: for children with attention-deficit problems, for teenagers suffering from depression, for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease, and also for intellectually handicapped...

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Hospitals Late Responding to Heart Cases
A new study has determined that hospital staff is late in responding to one-third of sudden heart attacks in the hospital, causing added risk of brain damage and death. Thousands of deaths a year result from these delays. The researchers studied the medical records of 6,789 patients at 369 hospitals who suffered cardiac arrests. The heart...

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Does Lack of Sleep Increase Diabetes Risk?
A new study has reported that healthy people who do not get enough deep sleep may lose their ability to process sugar which, in the long term, could contribute to weight gain and, ultimately, diabetes. The study reports that three nights’ lack of good sleep led to a drop in metabolism equivalent to a weight gain of 17 to 28 pounds...

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Woman Puts Plane Passengers at Risk of TB
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health officials are feverishly tracking down 44 people from 16 states who might have been exposed to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) on an international flight from India to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. They all sat within two rows of a woman, who was sick with...

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FDA Issues Second Warning on Pain Patch
Health officials issued a second warning Friday on the improper use of the Johnson & Johnson Duragesic pain-killing patch and its generic versions. The US Food and Drug Administration said that despite its July 2005 warning, deaths and life-threatening side effects arising from the use of the patch continue to be reported. ...

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Smoking Is Now Leading Woman Killer
Few things look as disturbing as the glamorous picture of a beautiful woman taken in her late twenties juxtaposed with the horrifying picture of a woman stripped of all glamour by emphysema. It should be enough to make a smoker think about quitting. And that is exactly what Maureen Hamilton wanted. This brave anti-smoking campaigner ...

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Bacteria In Syringes Make Dozens Ill
Syringes contaminated with bacteria have been blamed for making about 40 people ill in Illinois and Texas, including 20 patients at one hospital in Chicago. All the patients have recovered. The bacteria responsible for the infections are called Serratia marcescens, which are common in the urinary and respiratory tracts of adults. It can ...

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Obesity Increases Breast Cancer Death Risk
Patients already diagnosed with breast cancer should keep their weight in check in order to improve their survival odds, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers calculate that the risk of dying from breast cancer increases by 14% with every 11lb of weight put on by a patient ...

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Is City Living A Risk for Breast Cancer?
Researchers in the UK have found that women living in the city tend to have denser breasts than those residing in the countryside. This recent finding relates to previous research studies which have shown that denser breasts have four times more risk of developing breast cancer, particularly breasts made up of 25% or more dense tissue. ...

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Can Sleep Deficit Be Recouped?
Most people in the US now sleep less than seven hours a night — which is about one hour less than the average sleep time 40 years ago. They usually hope to make up for lost sleep at some point during the week, say, the following day or the weekend. Sleep researchers have long warned about the hazards of not sleeping enough ...

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Are Hospital Errors On The Rise?
In a repeat of a case in Indiana last year, in which three babies died, the newborn twins of a well-known actor were administered an overdose of heparin, a generic drug used as blood thinner. These and other cases illustrate what seems to be a growing problem in healthcare: medication errors. The Institute of Medicine reports that ...

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Is A New Lethal Virus Coming?
The US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control reported Thursday that a mutation of a virus that causes common cold has killed 10 people in the 18 months since May 2006. The new bug is an adenovirus, which normally are involved in non-lethal respiratory infections. There are 51 types of adenoviruses. They can cause pneumonia ...

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Diabetes Treatment Improving
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report this month that highlighted improvements in the treatment and management of diabetes. Compared to rates of incidence nearly ten years ago, the rates of complications like blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and deaths due to insulin deficiency have all declined. ...

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Is Organ Transplant Safe?
Four patients in Chicago who received organ transplants from the same donor were found positive for HIV. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the last time HIV was reportedly transmitted through infected organs was in 1986. Two viruses were actually transmitted: HIV and hepatitis C. This was the first instance ...

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Is Being Overweight Not All Bad?
A few extra pounds may increase the risk of dying from certain cancers, diabetes and kidney disease but not of heart disease and some other cancers, according to a research report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

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Excess Body Fat Linked To 6 Cancers
First, excess body fat was linked to a number of cardiovascular diseases. Then, a decade ago, the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund reported that excess weight was a significant risk factor to cancer of the endometrium (lining of the uterus). In a report published Wednesday, Oct. 31, ...

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Is Stress Greater Now Than 5 Years Ago?
A recent survey of the American Psychological Association (APA) showed that close to one half (48 percent) of Americans feel more stressed now than five years ago. The 2007 Stress in America poll also discovered an interesting fact — that one major source of stress for a majority was their housing costs. The online survey covered 1,848 ...

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More Women Opt for Double Mastectomies
A research study to be published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on Monday has found that more women are opting to have both their breasts removed, although only one breast has been diagnosed for cancer. The trend of women who take this option has grown from just 1.8 percent in 1998 to 4.5 percent in 2003 — an increase of 150 ...

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Bacterial Infection More Deadly than AIDS
A common germ has been spreading rampantly across the country, and it kills more people each year in the United States than the HIV virus, emphysema or homicide. In 2005, the antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed 18,650 persons, and it is spreading fast through hospitals and other healthcare facilities. This assessment is found in ...

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Is Stored Blood Safe for Transfusions
A recent study has found that the blood stored in blood banks and given to about 4.8 million Americans yearly may lack an important constituent to perform one of blood’s most important functions: transporting oxygen to body tissues. Doctors have been bothered for years by studies that point to a significant increase in heart attacks among patients ...

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Breast Cancer Awareness
Pink ribbons will be seen everywhere again this October, as the United States enters National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society (ACS) says breast cancer makes up nearly a third of all diagnoses for cancers in American women. The statistics are sobering. The ACS estimates there will be 178,480 women ...

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Breast Cancer Awareness Not Enough?
October in the United States is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A recent survey commissioned by the National Breast Cancer Coalition suggests that increasing awareness may not be the correct priority. The survey findings indicate that although a huge majority of women believe they know enough about breast cancer...

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Wider Dengue Outbreak Feared
As the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) gathers this week in Washington for a conference starting Monday, Oct. 1, the top priority will be the dengue fever breaking out across Latin America and the Caribbean that has killed over 180 people this year through Sept. 15. Things are expected to get worse before they get better, because ...

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Immunity Fades Over Time; Get Immunized
Many diseases that afflict you or people in your community are highly preventable if only you can get immunized. Vaccinations can help people avoid illnesses and time away from work, and prevent potentially devastating complications, or even deadly consequences, from these diseases. A disease as simple as influenza ...

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Start Saving Eyes at Home
Common household products used improperly cause 125,000 eye injuries every year, according to Prevent Blindness America (PBA), a nonprofit group. Ninety percent of such injuries are preventable, largely by following safety practices and using proper eye protection. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates ...

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How To Identify A Safe Clinic
Women today have benefited from efforts to make abortion safer. It is estimated that every year about 68,000 women all over the world die due to complications from unsafe abortions. In countries where it remains illegal, many women who desperately feel they need abortions are forced to resort to dangerous methods. ...

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Abortion Clinics:How Much Safety Is must?
The level of safety required for abortions in the first trimester is the crux of the matter.Missouri lawmakers recently enacted a law that would classify abortion clinics as outpatient surgery centers and thus require them to conform to stricter standards in building, staffing and health. This would apply to any facility, ...

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Do Antioxidants Prevent Heart Disease?
The first large-scale research study on the effectiveness of antioxidants found that supplements of vitamins C, E and beta-carotene do not work to prevent heart disease, especially for high-risk women.The researchers concluded that there was no overall benefit contributed by these vitamins on cardiovascular ...

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Obesity Rates On The Rise
The obesity epidemic shows no signs of being whipped into shape. The fourth annual obesity report released by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) reveals that adult obesity rates increased in 31 states — and no state even showed a decrease. Americans must be concerned about the issue: a public opinion ...

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Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Rare But ...
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare form of breast cancer, accounting for 1-4 per cent of all breast cancers. This does not describe a new type of breast cancer, but rather a type of clinical change that occurs as a result of cancer cells blocking the lymph channels in the breast and skin.The term “inflammatory” refers to ...

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