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Feeling Fatigued? Take a Walk Using the “I’m tired” excuse to avoid exercise won’t work anymore. Researchers have discovered that low-intensity exercise actually reduces fatigue by 65 percent... |
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Why the FDA May Regulate Salt A recent hearing at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could result in the regulation of salt by this government agency... |
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The Politics of Healthcare The current conditions in the healthcare industry have led the Democratic candidates to call the situation a full-blown crisis, while the Republican candidate John McCain has emphasized concern for the rising cost of healthcare... |
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Clever Harvard Pain Study Puts Chile Peppers in the Limelight Harvard researchers think they’ve figured out how the capsaicin in chile can eliminate a wide range of pain... |
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Mother’s Milk: At What Price? “It seems to me that the medical world of all places wouldn’t put up road blocks in front of a woman’s efforts to breast feed her child,” said Sharon Gonzales... |
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Screening For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm It is usually just recommended for men ages 65 and up, unless you have other risk factors... |
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Hysterectomy May Increase Risk of Incontinence For the many American women with non-life threatening medical conditions who undergo hysterectomies, researchers may have found a complication worth considering... |
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Delivers the ABCs of Toy Safety As gift-givers shop for that perfect toy this holiday season, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is emphasizing the importance of shopping safely... |
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Study: Breast-feeding Not Cause of Cavities The alarming rate of cavities among young children is more likely due to smoking during pregnancy or being poor than to breast-feeding... |
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Parents: You Are Key To Helping Your Teen Deal With Diabetes Parents of teens with type 1 and type 2 diabetes often have concerns about the disease, its impact on their family, and how to keep their teen safe and healthy... |
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Fashion Industry Takes Steps to Combat Eating Disorders in Models Earlier this year, the Council of Fashion Designers of America released recommended guidelines to help prevent anorexia, bulimia and smoking in models... |
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TV-Watching Toddlers Eat More Toddlers consume 46 calories for every hour they spend watching television, according to Project Viva... |
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Low-Fat Dietary Pattern May Lower Risk of Ovarian Cancer A diet low in fat could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in healthy postmenopausal women... |
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Evidence-Based Medicine for Wound Care Modern medical science has come up with new, promising treatments. Some new treatments work, and some don't... |
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New Survey Reveals Life-Changing Events Lead to Women's Renewed Focus on Self New research shows life-changing events, such as childbirth or divorce, inspire improvements around health, fitness, and physical appearance in women... |
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Defibrillators In The Home: Giving People The Chance To Help Save Lives A lunchbox-sized red case sits in Art Garofalo's living room in Weston, Massachusetts, a constant reminder to him that he is a lucky man... |
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Contraceptive Pills Don’t Increase Cancer Risk Contraceptive pills do not increase the overall risk of cancer and may even reduce some risks, according to a large British cohort study... |
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Listen for Your Health A study published in The Journal of Advanced Nursing found that music can help alleviate neck and back pain... |
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What Makes A Good Surgeon? What Makes A Good Hospital? If you need surgery, you might be tempted to go shopping for the hospital with the lowest death rate... |
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Pre-Menopausal Ovary Removal Linked With Dementia Recent research suggests that removal of the ovaries prior to the onset of menopause may greatly increase a woman’s risk of dementia and related conditions... |
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A New Advance in Detecting Metastatic Breast Cancer May Ease Treatment For Women A new diagnostic test can determine if breast cancer has spread or not, in minutes... |
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Tips for Seniors in the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Gap Some seniors who use Medicare to pay for their prescription drugs may encounter the coverage gap, or the "donut hole"... |
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Young at Heart: Science Says the Old Saying May be On Target Anne B. Newman, PhD, a geriatrician and professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and her colleagues looked at cardiovascular function and its effect on frailty... |
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The Promise of Cord Blood Visit any pregnancy-related website and you’re sure to be inundated with information about saving and storing your baby's cord blood... |
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Breast Cancer Gene Research Identifies New Targets Scientists and researchers looking for new, better ways to fight breast cancer are examining every angle... |
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New Heart Implant May Help Prevent Stroke A new heart implant device may help prevent stroke by preventing atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat... |
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Improve Your Blood Pressure with Soy Nuts? A new study suggests post-menopausal women may reap health benefits from eating soy nuts... |
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Heart Health and Magnesium: Studies Suggest Link We all know we should eat right, but the days can slip by so easily without making the necessary changes... |
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Macular Degeneration Gene Opens Eyes to New Treatments The recent discovery of the gene HTRA1 may help people see into their future... |
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Less Is More When It Comes To The AIDS Cocktail The fight against HIV/AIDS has been mixed, but efforts continue... |
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Diabetes And The Navajo Way The Navajo tradition provides a unique lens through which to look at this widespread condition... |
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Cardiologist Comments on Walnut Study and Benefits of Mediterranean Diet We speak with a cardiologist about what is happening and what needs to happen... |
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Some Severely Depressed Patients Get Lift from Implantable Device It’s been up, down, and around for technology aimed at treating severely depressed patients... |
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Keep Your Skin Safe This Summer Slip! Slop! Slap! and Wrap! when you're outside... |
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Cancer Nanotechnology: A New Frontier Researchers around the country are focusing on a novel method of cancer detection and treatment... |
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Breast Cancer Survivor from ‘The Nations Within’ Raises Awareness for Early Detection While much can divide Americans in our increasingly multicultural society, breast cancer knows no boundaries... |
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National Women’s Health Week Brings Reminder: Take Care of Yourself Have you ever felt rushed through a routine medical check-up with your doctor? |
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Most Angioplasties Are Unnecessary New research suggests that a regimen of drugs and healthy living is just as effective at relieving chest pain as angioplasty... |
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“Only a Miracle:” More On Cochlear Implants In Part Two, we continue to explore the miracle that are cochlear implants... |
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“Only a Miracle:” Cochlear Implants Restore Hearing A prosthetic device called a cochlear implant can be implanted in the inner ear and can restore partial hearing to profoundly deaf people... |
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Mediterranean Diet Still Best Eating Plan for Heart The Atkins Diet, The South Beach Diet and the Mediterranean Diet – oh my... |
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Bird Flu, Revisited Although some say avian influenza is still a threat, researchers are fast developing vaccines... |
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Link Found Between Gestational Diabetes and Periodontal Disease Nearly one out of two women with gestational diabetes also has periodontal disease, according to findings from Tulane University researchers... |
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Zolinza Capsules For Treating Rare Skin Cancer Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) patients now have a new treatment option – in the form of a pill... |
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Eat Mediterranean for Your Mind There is now more evidence that eating a Mediterranean-like diet may improve your health; but, this time research shows this diet may enhance your mental health... |
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Results Of Recent Viagra Heart Study Are Promising Doctors and researchers at Johns Hopkins believe that the popular Viagra drug may be useful for cardiovascular treatments... |
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Take Ten Years Off Of Your Attitude: Everyday Dancing for Everyday People Tango might be sexy, but Everyday Dancing frees the soul... |
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Don’t Catch the Bug: Avoiding Winter Viruses and Bacterial Infections Certain immune system risks go along with cold weather. Here are some tips to keep you healthy this winter... |
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“New” Stem Cells Could End Embryo Controversy Stem cells in amniotic fluid and placental tissue may be usable in a more humane way... |
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Avoid Unnecessary Injuries with a Little Snow Removal Savvy In the winter, most who live in snowy or icy regions heave a sigh and stock up on snow shovels and rock salt... |
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Exercise Helps Mind and Body of Seniors Aging is inevitable, but declining physical performance, strength, and mental functioning are not the given that many people believe... |
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Stay Safe with Winter Sporting Sense Enjoy the snow safely: a little care and knowledge go a long way... |
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Saving Our Nation’s Youth from Excess
Type 2 diabetes and obesity is threatening the health and well-being of schoolchildren everywhere... |
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Seasonal Affective Disorder: More Than Just The Blues As the days become colder and darker and winter approaches, most people who live in temperate climates experience a sense of sadness and low energy... |
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Savor Your Way to Health: The Pleasure Hypothesis The key to losing weight may lie in enjoying each bite you take... |
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12 Stress Headaches, 11 Yelling Children, 10 Tempted Tummies . . . and a Partridge in a Pear Tree? While some people love the holidays, many feel pressured to put aside anxiety and depression and put on a brave face... |
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Genetic Makeup May Predict Antidepressant Success Typically, physicians’ first tries at treating major depression are successful only about 60 percent of the time. A new study may change that... |
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Call is Out for All Heart Patients to Get Immunized This Fall If the American Heart Association (AHA) has its way, considerably more than the one in three adults with cardiovascular disease that got flu shots in 2005 will get immunized for the 2006-2007 flu season... |
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Breast Cancer and Eating Well: The Tomato Connection It’s easy to love plump, fire engine red tomatoes. They are the fourth most commonly consumed fresh vegetable, and the most frequently consumed canned vegetable in the American diet... |
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Free, Anonymous Depression Screening at Sites Across the Nation This Thursday, October 5 is National Depression Screening Day. You can get a free and anonymous screening test at centers across the country. Remember, you are not alone... |
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Beer Good for What Ails You – Prostate Cancer to Strong Bones and Beyond A bright yellow India Pale Ale on a summer evening – along with a good slosh of the fizzy brew in the steak marinade. The smell of a sweet, malty porter in October... |
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Mothers and Medical Malpractice – Part Three All of a sudden when constitutional law starts to relate to how well we are treated when something goes wrong at the doctor’s office, we tend to wish we’d paid more attention back in our political science classes... |
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Mothers and Malpractice – Part Two One well-respected Portland lawyer told me I had a case, but he wouldn’t represent me because I had the surgery at OHSU. Doctors at OHSU claim protection... |
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Mothers and Medical Malpractice – One Woman’s Worst Nightmare It was just in that last month before everything came crashing down that I hung a world map on the ceiling over her bed... |
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Schizophrenia Associated with a Variety of Autoimmune Disorders According to a new study, the link between disorders of the body and of the mind may be even stronger than previously thought... |
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Physician Payment Disclosure and Patients: Knowing More May Help In an age of skyrocketing healthcare costs and increasing limitations in coverage, it would seem that the divide between patients and physicians is only growing further apart. Facing shorter visits and ultimately higher bills, would disclosing physician compensation accomplish anything... |
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Beat the Heat – Hydration, Electrolytes and Beyond Back in graduate school I had a friend who was in such great shape that she prevailed against both genders in a university-wide racquetball tournament. Watching this formidable champ make surgical strikes on the courts was instructive enough. Seeing her around the department where our offices were... |
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The Art of Healing “If I ask a client to tell me about the family they grew up in as opposed to asking them to draw a picture about that family that represents their family life,” said art therapist and owner of Portland Creative Healing, Heidi VanSchoonhoven, M.A., “I’d likely get very different images... |
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Juice – How Much You Drink Matters The benefits to your health from drinking juice are well known. Cranberry juice has been linked to the prevention of urinary tract infections. Grape juice can help prevent blood clots. But how many of our beliefs about fruit juice are based in science and how much is myth? |
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When Disaster Strikes, Poor Hit Harder Over the past two years, the world has been left reeling by the advent of several natural disasters, catastrophic not only for the material objects they destroyed, but for the intense cost in terms of human lives... |
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Gotta Have It Now – Part Two “Back when I tried all this talk therapy for compulsive eating,” Jane Nombra from Portland, Ore. said about her experiences in the early ’90s, “the woman I saw finally stared at me one day, practically waving her box of hankies in my face... |
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Gotta Have It Now “‘Gotta have it’ is the driving thought of the addict,” writes Ronald D. Rudgen, M.D., Ph.D., in “The Craving Brain.” “‘Gotta have it.’ A drink, a drag, a hit, a line, a pill, another piece of chocolate... |
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Just a Spoonful of Sugar? “Sugar consumption is off the charts,” said executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Michael F. Jacobson. “Added sugars found largely in junk foods such as soft drinks, cakes and cookies squeeze healthier foods out of the diet... |
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Milk Thistle May Help with Liver Problems Milk thistle: Who would have thought a plant from the aster family with such a friendly name might help those with chronic liver disease? |
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From Ruin to Recovery – Part Five As far as working the 12 step program of Overeaters Anonymous, Alice Clark has some thoughts from the recovery side of the chasm that divides those practicing the disease from those in recovery... |
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A Positive Physician Attitude is Good Medicine Is a caring doctor good for your health? A recent study of ideal physician behaviors led by the Mayo Clinic found that a good relationship with a physician not only affects patients emotionally but also positively influences their compliance... |
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Numbness, Tingling, Pain – Raising Awareness of Peripheral Neuropathy "Anything I touch hurts. If I touch metal – that is the worst thing you can do – very painful. This whole thing is painful..." |
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Nobody Says I Love You Like a Pug Dog Dudley has one of those schmoosed up monkey faces only a mother could love. Also since he clearly gets his share of goodies and has, as my mother says, ‘no nose a’tall,’ he makes those little sniffy-snorts in excitement when he wiggles his fire-hydrant, short-stuff body around... |
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Former Oregon Governor Launches Healthcare Reform Movement Former Oregon governor, John A. Kitzhaber, M.D., thought about running for new term at Oregon’s helm, but instead the civic-minded man has decided to... |
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Too Much of A Good Thing? – Excess Salt Thought to Compromise Health “The salt assault is probably good for funeral directors and coffin makers, but it is a disaster for shoppers and restaurant patrons,” said Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) executive director... |
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Study Gets Answers about Older Women's Incontinence “I think having accidents is one of the worst red flags that can go up as we age,” Irene Doty of Los Angeles said. “I remember this one friend of the family – he’s not female, but he still had a problem... |
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From Ruin to Recovery – Part Four Once Alice Clark realized that she really did have an eating disorder as severe and harmful as alcoholism, and that there was a place she could go for help, she took action... |
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When Sound Fades – New Frustrations and New Dimensions “What’s it like being deaf?” asked Beverly Rupp of Sandy, Ore. Rupp first noticed her hearing problems as a child, but they did not become pronounced until adulthood... |
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From Ruin to Recovery – Part Three Alice Clark’s secrecy about her bulimia lasted far beyond high school and into college, marriage, and motherhood. She explains, “I was good at getting away with it. Even my husband didn’t know after all those years... |
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African Americans More Likely to Suffer from HIV/AIDS More than any other racial or ethnic group in the U.S., African Americans continue to be hardest hit by new HIV/AIDS cases... |
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From Ruin to Recovery – Part Two Alice Clark picks up her account of her struggle with bulimia, a nightmare that over the course of 20 years gradually became a bizarre lifestyle. In particular, her teen years... |
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Medicine in Wartime: Invisible Wounds Plague Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Over the past quarter century, media have offered countless images and accounts of war-shaken veterans, focusing primarily on depictions of “shell-shocked” Vietnam or World War II veterans... |
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From Ruin to Recovery – A Bulimia Story “I remember when I was in third or forth grade riding my bike and a carload of boys came by and call me a fat, ugly pig,” said 51 year-old Alice Clark who today is a petite size six at a little over five feet... |
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Study Finds End-of-Life Wishes Vary Along Culture and Gender Lines The most vulnerable times of life are at the beginning and the end. But while American society welcomes newborns with open arms, its response to elders on the other side of life can be marked by fear and confusion... |
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Link Between Meat and Colon Cancer Explained If you are one of many who are aware of the potential risks of eating red or processed meats, but have been holding out for conclusive evidence, now might be a good time to consider putting down that hot dog... |
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Love Me Tender – Valentine’s Day for Sumptuous, Sensuous, Healthy Fare What was once a rather saccharin holiday strictly for lovers has expanded to embrace the whole of the population interested in feasting on sumptuous fare... |
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Pandemic Flu Possibility – How to Prepare Should a global pandemic arise from avian influenza that to date has spread from Asia to the Middle East, we could find ourselves in rather dire circumstances... |
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Pandemic Flu Possibility Has Governments Trying to Organize As of mid-January 2006, five people died from bird flu in Turkey. Sixty-four others in Asia have also succumbed to the flu since 2003 when World Health Organization officials began tracking the progress of avian influenza... |
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Chasing the Blues Away If the slip slide into 2006 has you feeling a bit sluggish and out of sorts – even, perish the thought, full on depressed – the first thing to do is push up out of the chair... |
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Doctors at Your Service: The Rise of Concierge Care Imagine having a doctor who’s available 24 hours a day and even makes house calls. It sounds like old-fashioned medical care but it’s available today... |
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Hot Drinks Warm Body and Soul The latest reports are that coffee, hot cocoa, and chamomile tea are pretty decent choices when winter temperatures send us flocking in around the wood stove for warmth... |
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How to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder Turning the clocks back an hour in October gives us some extra sleep, but with it can come the winter blues. As the days get shorter, many of us go into hibernation mode... |
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Treats from the Holiday Kitchen Take a New Twist “Who says treats have to have loads of sugar and butter to be good,” said Melody Strong who’s joined the retired colonies artists clustering on the Oregon Coast. “Especially during the holidays all the seasonal fruit is so abundant... |
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Good Ol’ Soap and Water – Just as Good as Fancier Antibacterial Soaps? When it comes to washing your hands, antibacterial soaps may not be all they’re cracked up to be. That’s what a federal advisory panel that counsels the Food and Drug Administration announced recently... |
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Don’t Fall Victim to Holiday Depression “I love Christmas, but my cousin won’t be here this year and she’s all the family I have left,” said Jenny Mosley of Austin, Texas. “Right now I’m doing all right with the classical music on my public radio station and the cookies, but on Christmas Day I know it will be lonely... |
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Be Prepared: A Prescription for Coping with Surgery Anyone who’s watched a medical show on television has seen the typical surgery scene dominated by doctors and nurses. It’s easy to forget the patient is even there. But in real life, you can play a leading role... |
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To Your Health – The Pleasures of the Holiday Table According to Julia Child, “An imaginary shelf labeled INDULGENCES is a good idea. It contains the best butter, jumbo-sized eggs, heavy cream, marbled steaks, sausages and pâtés, hollandaise and butter sauces... |
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Study Shows Respecting Patients Brings Results Perhaps Aretha Franklin knew something about patient-doctor relationships when she sang “Respect.” A recent John Hopkins University study shows that patients who are treated with respect and dignity reported higher adherence... |
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