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Sleep: not enough, too much may up diabetes risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research hints that not getting enough sleep each night, or getting too much sleep, may increase a person's risk of developing non-insulin dependent (type ...
Apparently normal hearts tied to sudden cardiac deaths
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many people who suffer "non-ischemic" cardiac death -- a cardiac death that is not related to restricted blood flow to the coronary arteries -- appear to ...
Healthy meniscus important in knee arthritis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Damage to the meniscus -- a cartilage disk that cushions the knee joint -- increases the risk of cartilage loss in patients with osteoarthritis of the ...
Java running neck-and-neck with soft drinks in US--report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More Americans are drinking a cup of coffee every day, putting Java virtually neck-and-neck with such soft drinks as cola, according to an industry report ...
CRP may help predict lung cancer risk in smokers
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Measuring blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) -- a marker of inflammation -- may help identifying smokers with abnormal lesions in their airways that ...
Angiomax better than other blood thinners: study
ATLANTA (Reuters) - For patients who have had a heart attack or severe chest pain, the blood-thinning drug Angiomax, sold by the Medicines Co., works as well as rival drugs to open ...
Lowering homocysteine doesn't protect heart: studies
BOSTON (Reuters) - Levels of the amino acid homocysteine may be high in people destined for a heart attack or stroke, but lowering them with B vitamins and folic acid does not reduce ...
Many activities after pelvic surgery appear safe
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many of the activities that are normally restricted following surgery for pelvic-floor disorders are no more taxing than common everyday activities, such ...
Stress may raise women's BV risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Increases in psychosocial stress seem to increase a woman's odd of having, or developing, a vaginal infection termed bacterial vaginosis (BV), researchers ...
Efforts to curb diabetes reduce incontinence rates
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In overweight, pre-diabetic women, intensive lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes also results in a lower risk of urinary incontinence, a new study ...
Bird flu poses no food safety risk: health expert
LONDON (Reuters) - Bird flu in poultry does not pose any food safety risk because it is unlikely a sick chicken would be slaughtered for consumption and thoroughly cooking meat and ...
Alternative medicine common in kids; docs unaware
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In places as far apart as Wales and Australia, about half of the children seen at pediatric hospitals are using complementary and alternative medicine ...
More than half of Japanese women childless at 30
TOKYO (Reuters) - More than half of Japanese women born in the early 1970s were still childless at 30, intensifying fears about the nation's already low birthrate, Japanese media said ...
Wal-Mart pharmacies to carry morning-after pill
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Friday that all of its pharmacies would carry morning-after contraceptive pills, bowing to pressure from states seeking to force the ...
Two Deaths Linked to Lead-Removal Drug
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AP - A drug that is sometimes used to treat lead poisoning — and is also believed by some parents to be effective against autism — caused the deaths of two children last year, the ...
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