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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:46pm EST
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Two new drugs, taken alone
or potentially together, may boost survival for men with advanced
prostate cancer, studies suggest.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:46pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise can improve the
health, energy and well-being of cancer patients after they've completed
their main cancer treatment, a new review finds.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:16pm EST
AP - Birth control pills are known to be nearly 100 percent effective when taken properly, but a recall of the drugs could send a shudder through women of childbearing age.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:10pm EST
Reuters - Britain's health cost watchdog NICE sparked a major row on Thursday by snubbing a pricey new prostate cancer pill discovered at the country's top cancer research centre, a decision critics said was bad for patients and research.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Older women who take popular
medications to control indigestion and heartburn may put themselves at
higher risk for hip fractures, researchers report.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Vigorous exercise causes
changes in some 180 prostate genes among men with early stage prostate
cancer, a new study suggests.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Many children who suffer a
stroke had some sort of an infection in the days leading up to the stroke,
a new study says.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The American Academy of
Pediatrics is recommending that all boys between the ages of 11 and 12
receive the three-dose vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug
Administration approval for the Novartis drug Gleevec has been expanded to
include adults who have had surgical removal of CD117-positive
gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), the agency said in a news
release.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that a
brain-clotting plaque linked to Alzheimer's disease may cause cognitive
decline even in healthy people, potentially setting the stage for the
development of the devastating illness later in life.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:07pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The latest trial of a drug
called GAD-alum to treat type 1 diabetes failed to show any significant
improvement in the common markers of the blood sugar disease.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:04pm EST
AP - A federal judge is considering whether Washington state can require pharmacies to stock and sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, even in the face of religious objections by druggists who believe they destroy human life.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:14pm EST
AP - New research offers hope for the first pill to treat a common problem in young women: fibroids in the uterus. The growths can cause pain, heavy bleeding and fertility problems, and they are the leading cause of hysterectomies.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:56pm EST
ContributorNetwork - In cases of child sexual abuse, a second follow-up exam often finds injuries, trauma or sexually transmitted infections missed on the first evaluation, especially in teens, says a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. With 80,000 reports of child sexual abuse in the U.S. annually, doctors say children should be examined at least once more in cases of reported sexual assault. Here are details about child sex abuse and how further medical evaluation might help.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:51pm EST
Reuters - An FDA advisory committee will meet in the second quarter to discuss Arena Pharmaceutical Inc's experimental obesity drug following the company's recent resubmission of an application seeking its approval, Arena said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:48pm EST
Reuters - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Wednesday said the state must make changes to its pension system and to Medicaid this year, while also insisting that spending cuts alone will not fix the state's budget.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:39pm EST
AP - First lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday said the campaign to bring healthy food to all Americans is happening neighborhood by neighborhood.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:24pm EST
AP - Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills due to a packaging error that could raise the risk of an accidental pregnancy by leaving women with an inadequate dose.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:20pm EST
LiveScience.com - The child abuse that takes place in one year in the United States will cost the nation $124 billion over the victims' lifetimes, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:17pm EST
Reuters - Radioactive "seeds" that are sometimes used to treat early prostate cancer may do widespread damage to the DNA in a man's sperm, a small study finds.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:42pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to HLN, the newest and most vocal critics of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's anti-obesity ad campaign are a group known as "mommy bloggers." These angry mothers feel the controversial ads, which depict obese children as unhappy and suffering from medical maladies, do more harm than good by shaming children instead of encouraging them. Critics argue that shaming tactics only lead to greater tendencies to overeat and can lead to higher numbers of eating disorders.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:02pm EST
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Experts comparing three
leading prostate cancer therapies find external beam radiation therapy to
be more toxic and expensive than either surgery or a more localized form
of radiation therapy known as brachytherapy.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:02pm EST
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Vigorous exercise causes
changes in some 180 prostate genes among men with early stage prostate
cancer, a new study suggests.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:02pm EST
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug
Administration approval for the Novartis drug Gleevec has been expanded to
include adults who have had surgical removal of CD117-positive
gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), the agency said in a news
release.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:10pm EST
LiveScience.com - A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
