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Health Tip: Males With Enlarged Breasts (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Gynecomastia is a condition in which above average amounts of breast tissue form in men. The American Academy of Family Physicians says causes may include ...
Brain Scan May Spot Alzheimer's Progression (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Newly developed brain-scanning technology may help identify how Alzheimer's disease progresses and who is likely to get the disease ...
Antidepressant Use for Kids Doubled Before FDA Warnings (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Even as concerns about teen suicide and antidepressant use surfaced during the last decade, prescriptions for the mood-altering drugs ...
Clinical Trials Update: Nov. 16, 2005 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Viagra Effective Against Deadly Lung Disease (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Sildenafil, better known as Viagra, is an effective treatment for the deadly lung condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension ...
Fewer Carbs Boost DASH Diet's Heart Benefits (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Two carbohydrate-reduced versions of the government's Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet have a beneficial effect on ...
2 tests cut cervical cancer risk in poor countries (Reuters)
Reuters - While women in most Western countries
are regularly screened for cervical cancer, just two health
clinic visits in a lifetime should halve the cancer risk for
women in ...
Lifestyle change enhances weight-loss drug effect (Reuters)
Reuters - Obese patients who took the diet drug
Meridia and received intensive weight-loss counseling lost
twice as much weight as patients who only took the drug,
according to a study ...
Novartis recalls bottles of feeding formula (Reuters)
Reuters - Novartis said on Wednesday that it
is recalling 2,712 bottles of an enteral feeding formula which
was incorrectly labeled as a tube feeding formulated for
diabetes which ...
Statins may delay effects of Alzheimer's: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Cholesterol-lowering drugs may help to
delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause
of dementia in the elderly, French scientists said on Thursday.
Mold readings spark health concerns in New Orleans (Reuters)
Reuters - Take a flooded building in steamy
New Orleans, and within days dark mold blooms on every surface,
bringing the stench of decay to much of the hurricane-hit city.
Nigerian AIDS funds at risk over poor accounting
ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria risks losing millions of dollars in funding to help fight HIV/AIDS, which has infected more than 3.5 million Nigerians, because of authorities' ...
Actos lowers heart attack recurrence in diabetics
DALLAS (Reuters Health) - The diabetes drug pioglitazone (Actos; Takeda) significantly reduces the risk of heart attack in type 2 diabetics who have already had a heart attack, ...
Exercise reduces breast cancer risk in black women
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With a few hours of exercise each week, black women can reduce their risk of breast cancer to the same extent that white women can, new research suggests.
Bone marrow cells no help after heart attack: study
DALLAS (Reuters) - In a new study that apparently contradicts a recent trial, injecting patients with their own progenitor bone marrow cells a few days after a heart attack failed to ...
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