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Health Tip: How to Protect Seniors From Injury (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:47pm EST
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Creating a home safety checklist can help seniors prevent injuries and let them prepare if they happen to fall or hurt themselves. -
Certain Cancer Drugs May Have Fatal Side Effects: Analysis (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:47pm EST
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with three relatively new cancer drugs may be linked to a slightly increased risk of death, a new analysis suggests. -
Pancreas May 'Taste' Fructose, Hinting at Links to Diabetes (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:47pm EST
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that the pancreas has sweet-taste receptors -- like those found on the tongue -- that can "taste" fructose. -
Ovarian cancer screening popular despite guidelines (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:20pm EST
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Reuters - Despite expert guidelines and scientific evidence to the contrary, a third of U.S. primary care physicians believe ovarian cancer screening is effective and many would offer it to patients, according to a new survey. -
Diet supplements recalled on unlabeled drug worries (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:50pm EST
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Reuters - Healthy People Co is recalling 15 lots of seven different dietary supplements because they contain appetite suppressants or a drug for male erectile dysfunction, the Long Beach, California, company said. -
A push for family input to detect dementia earlier (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:31pm EST
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AP - Alexis McKenzie's mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife's sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store.
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Blurry line in diagnosing early Alzheimer's: study (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:18pm EST
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Reuters - The revised definition of a brain condition called mild cognitive impairment means that many people now considered to have mild or early Alzheimer's disease could easily be given that diagnosis instead, suggests a new study. -
Sex Education Less Effective in Conservative States (LiveScience.com)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:05pm EST
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LiveScience.com - Sex education is failing to reduce adolescent birthrates in conservative states, according to a new study. -
Spanking Produces Troubled Kids, Study Contends (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:02pm EST
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more fuel to the controversial topic of children and spanking, two Canadian child development experts have published a new analysis that warns that physical punishment poses serious risks to a child's long-term development. -
Certain Cancer Drugs May Have Fatal Side Effects: Analysis (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:02pm EST
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with three relatively new cancer drugs may be linked to a slightly increased risk of death, a new analysis suggests. -
Skepticism grows around Medco/Express Scripts deal (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:54pm EST
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Reuters - Objections to Express Scripts' $29 billion plan to buy rival pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions are accumulating as U.S. antitrust regulators weigh whether they have enough evidence to stop the megamerger. -
Orexigen, FDA agree on trial design for obesity drug (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:28am EST
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Reuters - Orexigen Therapeutics Inc said it reached an agreement with U.S. health regulators on the design of a heart-safety trial required for the approval of its experimental obesity drug. -
FDA questions Amgen drug for prostate cancer (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:12am EST
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AP - Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects. -
Health Tip: How to Protect Seniors From Injury (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:02am EST
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Creating a home safety checklist can help seniors prevent injuries and let them prepare if they happen to fall or hurt themselves. -
Thousands of U.S. Kids Hospitalized for Abuse (HealthDay)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:02am EST
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HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Close to 4,600 kids in the United States were hospitalized as a result of child abuse in one recent year, and 300 of them died, a new study shows. -
The 'Choking Game': 1 in 7 College Kids Has Tried It (Time.com)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:35am EST
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Time.com - The potentially lethal Choking Game, which involves cutting off the blood supply to the brain, appears to be popular with some college students who think it's not as dangerous as using illicit drugs -
Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars: CDC (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:49am EST
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AP - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.