Sugar and Mental Health
Reuters had a story a couple days ago on new research from Norway on sugar intake and psychological problems. The study was done on 5000 10th graders in Norway and they concluded that there was a significant relationship between sugary soft-drink consumptions and psychological symptoms like hyperactivity and various forms of distress. For hyperactivity [...]
Care For Patients With Anaemia Linked To Chronic Kidney Disease To Improve With New NICE Guidelines UK
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions have published a clinical guideline to improve treatment and care for people with anaemia associated with chronic kidney disease. [click link for full article]
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Hitting a loud responsive chord - Newsday
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Spinach gets the OK - San Jose Mercury News
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For these writers cancer is the subject (AP)
AP - She married in Arizona on a Saturday. On Sunday her groom took a plane to New York and his new job. On Monday she set off in the U-Haul truck for the 2000-mile drive to meet him.
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Science Of Learning Center Comes To UC San Diego
A better understanding of how humans learn could lead to improved teaching techniques and along the way alter the trajectories of countless human lives. Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant for 3. [click link for full article]
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Food illnesses decline CDC reports (AP)
 AP - Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade with illness occurring at record-low rates new federal statistics show.
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FDA lifts ban on most fresh spinach - Houston Chronicle
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More drug plans for Medicare patients to choose from - San Francisco Chronicle
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Frist unveils minority health bill (AP)
 AP - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is aligning himself with Democrats in hopes of enhancing his political legacy through an effort to improve minority health care.
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Study: Hotel rooms have unseen guests (AP)
 AP - Hotel guests leave behind more than just socks and old paperbacks: A new study found viruses on TV remotes light switches and even hotel pens after cold sufferers checked out.
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Mortality Rates From Cancer And Heart Disease Improve UK
Figures released by the Department of Health based on recent data from the Office for National Statistics show that mortality figures for people suffering from cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have improved. The latest mortality figures for people under the age of 75 show that death rates from cancer have reduced by 15.7% and death rates from CVD have reduced by 35.9% since 1996. [click link for full article]
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Spinach gets the OK - San Jose Mercury News
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Study: Hotel rooms have unseen guests (AP)
AP - Hotel guests leave behind more than just socks and old paperbacks: A new study found viruses on TV remotes light switches and even hotel pens after cold sufferers checked out.
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Medicare Part D to offer more choices in 2007 - Pioneer Press
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Frist unveils minority health bill (AP)
AP - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is aligning himself with Democrats in hopes of enhancing his political legacy through an effort to improve minority health care.
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AACR CEO Margaret Foti Receives Cancer Service Award
American Association for Cancer Research Chief Executive Officer Margaret Foti Ph.D. M.D. (h.c.) will receive the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding contributions to progress in cancer research. The award will be presented during a special ceremony at the AACI's annual meeting October 22 - 24 2006. [click link for full article]
Friday, September 29, 2006
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Health Roundup: Inter-pregnancy BMI gain bad - Monsters and Critics.com
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US FDA says spinach safe but has bigger concerns - Reuters
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Study: Hotel rooms have unseen guests (AP)
AP - Hotel guests leave behind more than just socks and old paperbacks: A new study found viruses on TV remotes light switches and even hotel pens after cold sufferers checked out.
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More college kids eating local farm fare (AP)
AP - An earthy abundance from local farms comes through the loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in the spring peas and beets in the summer apples and squash in the fall. The food — much of it taken from the soil the day before — provides fresh fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants and classroom kitchens.
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Women Given Liver Transplants Outlive Male Recipients By Around 4 Years
Female liver transplant recipients outlive men given the same procedure by an average of 4.5 years suggests research published ahead of print in Gut.And while younger people tend to live longest of all they also stand to lose more years of their life compared with those who have not had liver transplants the research shows. [click link for full article]
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Calif. Growers Must Improve Food Safety Officials Stress - Forbes
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Interpregnancy Weight Gain Risky for Second Pregnancy - MedPage Today
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Weight gain between pregnancies risky (AP)
 AP - Women who gain as little as 7 pounds between pregnancies can put themselves and their babies at medical risk even if they don't become overweight suggests a provocative study of thousands of women.
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Study: Hotel rooms have unseen guests (AP)
AP - Hotel guests leave behind more than just socks and old paperbacks: A new study found viruses on TV remotes light switches and even hotel pens after cold sufferers checked out.
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Care Quality For Privately Insured Individuals Increases In Several Categories NCQA Says
The quality of care for patients enrolled in private insurance plans in 2005 improved in 35 of 42 categories including cervical cancer and colorectal cancer screenings and the controlling of high blood pressure in hypertension patients according to a report released Wednesday by the National Committee for Quality Assurance the AP/Seattle Post Intelligencer reports. [click link for full article]
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Weight gain risk to next baby - Independent
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'Smoking gun' helps narrow E. coli outbreak probe - Houston Chronicle
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Weight gain between pregnancies risky (AP)
AP - Women who gain as little as 7 pounds between pregnancies can put themselves and their babies at medical risk even if they don't become overweight suggests a provocative study of thousands of women.
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More college kids eating local farm fare (AP)
AP - An earthy abundance from local farms comes through the loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in the spring peas and beets in the summer apples and squash in the fall. The food — much of it taken from the soil the day before — provides fresh fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants and classroom kitchens.
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HIV/AIDS Conference Delegates Call For More Regional Support To Fight Spread Of The Virus
Participants on Monday at an international parliamentary conference on HIV prevention in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek called for more commitment and leadership to reduce the spread of HIV in the region IRIN News reports. [click link for full article]
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Officials urge better food safety from Salinas Valley farms - San Jose Mercury News
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NYC to Restaurants: Get an Oil Change - Washington Post
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More college kids eating local farm fare (AP)
AP - An earthy abundance from local farms comes through the loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in the spring peas and beets in the summer apples and squash in the fall. The food — much of it taken from the soil the day before — provides fresh fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants and classroom kitchens.
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Weight gain between pregnancies risky (AP)
AP - Women who gain as little as 7 pounds between pregnancies can put themselves and their babies at medical risk even if they don't become overweight suggests a provocative study of thousands of women.
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Employer Health Plan Premiums Show Smallest Increase Since 2000 But Rise Twice As Fast As Wages Inflation Survey Finds
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased by an average of 7.7% in 2006 compared with increases of 9.2% in 2005 and 13.9% in 2003 according to an annual survey released on Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust the New York Times reports (Freudenheim New York Times 9/27). [click link for full article]
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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Federal trans-fat plan best: Officials - Toronto Star
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Physicians push FDA to drop 'recall' use (AP)
AP - The Food and Drug Administration is considering not using the word "recall" to warn patients and doctors about defective pacemakers and defibrillators at the request of a physicians' group struggling to deal with a loss of public confidence in the safety of implantable heart devices.
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Insulin cell transplant helps control diabetes - Reuters.uk
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Weight gain between pregnancies risky (AP)
 AP - Women who gain as little as 7 pounds between pregnancies can put themselves and their babies at medical risk even if they don't become overweight suggests a provocative study of thousands of women.
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Elevated Testosterone Kills Brain Cells
A Yale School of Medicine study shows for the first time that a high level of testosterone such as that caused by the use of steroids to increase muscle mass or for replacement therapy can lead to a catastrophic loss of brain cells.Taking large doses of androgens or steroids is known to cause hyperexcitability a highly aggressive nature and suicidal tendencies. [click link for full article]
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US trans fat ban: life-saver or Orwellian? - Independent Online
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The Terrell Owens Suicide Saga
While The Smoking Gun sticks by its reporting that Terrell Owens tried to commit suicide others remain unconvinced. Michael Silver over at Sports Illustrated believes Owens has a moodier darker side that many people dont know but which he has seen. Owens himself has denied the attempt suggesting instead that he took natural supplements and [...]
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MS drug treatment shows promise (AP)
AP - Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. the U.S. unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG said Thursday that at least three out of four patients given an experimental multiple sclerosis treatment were free of relapses for more than two years.
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Most uninsured children's parents work (AP)
AP - Most of the 9 million uninsured children in the U.S. live in homes where at least one parent works full time. In more than one-quarter of the cases there are two working parents.
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Diabetes procedure cuts need for insulin - Toronto Star
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Flemish Biotechnology Is Flourishing: Second Bio-Incubator Opened
In response to the needs of the growing biotech sector in Flanders the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) is opening a new bio-incubator in the Technology Park in Zwijnaarde. The new bio-incubator stands next to - and is an exact copy of - the first bio-incubator thus doubling the available space for biotech companies that are just getting started. [click link for full article]
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Bipolar Awareness Day
Bipolar Disorder Awareness Day is part of Mental Health Awareness Week (1-7 October). It was created by the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Abbott Laboratories in 1990 to increase awareness of bipolar disorder promote early detection and accurate diagnosis reduce stigma and minimize the devastating impact on the 2.3 million Americans presently affected by the disorder.
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Government Joins Fight Against Trans Fats - NPR
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A way off of insulin shots? Mixed results in tests - Newsweek
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Surgeons do 1st near-weightless surgery (AP)
 AP - Braving queasy stomachs a team of French doctors took to the skies Wednesday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions removing a cyst from the arm of a man as the aircraft soared and dived to create weightlessness.
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FCC to study ads kids' weight for link (AP)
 AP - Concerned that a steady diet of TV ads is putting too many pounds on American children the Federal Communications Commission plans to study links between the ads viewing habits and the rise of childhood obesity.
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Congress Should Guarantee Affordable Health Care For All U.S. Residents By 2012 Protect From High Out-of-Pocket Costs Citizens' Health Care Working
All U.S. residents should have access to affordable health care by 2012 according to a report released on Monday by a federal advisory panel the New York Times reports (Pear New York Times 9/26). [click link for full article]
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Resistant Bacteria Increasing Source Of Muscle Infection
An antibiotic-resistant bacteria called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is increasingly a cause of muscle infections in children said Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researchers in a report in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.The report appears online at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ in the October 15 2006 issue. [click link for full article]
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NYC mulls ban on trans fats in eateries (AP)
 AP - Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
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Billionaire spends to map mouse brains - Independent Online
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Survey: Lowest growth rate since 2000; workers still paying more - MarketWatch
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Doctors arrive for zero-gravity surgery (AP)
 AP - A plane carrying a team of doctors and a patient for pioneering zero-gravity surgery landed Wednesday after the flight although officials did not immediately disclose any information about the procedure.
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Roche To Transfer Technology For Protease Inhibitor Saquinavir To Three Generic Drug Companies In Sub-Saharan Africa
Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company Roche on Friday said it will provide three generic drug companies in sub-Saharan Africa assistance in producing the protease inhibitor saquinavir under its Technology Transfer Initiative Reuters South Africa reports (Reuters South Africa 9/22). [click link for full article]
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The Choice: A Longer Life or More Stuff - New York Times
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New York proposes trans fat ban in restaurants - Reuters
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Many women unaware they're pre-diabetic (AP)
AP - Getting fatter around the middle? Have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? You could be headed for the same trouble especially if you're over 40 and female.
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NYC mulls ban on trans fats in eateries (AP)
AP - Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
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The Reality of “Internet Addiction”?
One of the favorite things for psychology entrepreneurs is to find a new behavior and throw addiction after it publish a book establish a weekend workshop series and rake in the dollars. As the DSM-V is prepared over the next handful of years there will be more and more talk about disorder additions to the [...]
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AHIP Estimates The Number Of Medicare Drug Benefit Beneficiaries Who Will Reach Coverage Gap This Year
"Approximately Three Million Seniors Will Reach the Medicare Part D 'Coverage Gap' in 2006" America's Health Insurance Plans: AHIP estimates that approximately three million seniors will reach the so-called Medicare prescription drug benefit "doughnut hole" coverage gap this year. [click link for full article]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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Health insurance is twice inflation rate - Houston Chronicle
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Investigators zero in on tainted spinach (AP)
 AP - Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak.
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Menthol cigarettes prove harder to quit - Monsters and Critics.com
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Heavy Drinking Can Hasten The Progression Of The Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Disease
* Alcohol abuse can impair a person's immune system. * Alcohol abuse is also very common among individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). * New findings indicate that heavy drinking can accelerate time to AIDS among rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). [click link for full article]
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Well-funded scientists map mouse brain (AP)
AP - A map of the mouse brain down to details of individual cells has been completed the first project of an institute funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen it was announced Tuesday.
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AOL Subscribers Sue Over Privacy Breach
We sincerely hope that Steve Cases new company Revolution Health does a better job with privacy issues than his old company has done. Search records are one thing but ones health records and health information are far more valuable to people. If you accidentally expose a persons health information online that they didnt know was [...]
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Menthol cigarettes may hook smokers: study - Reuters
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Michigan Senate Approves Bills That Would Require Girls To Receive HPV Vaccine Before Entering Sixth Grade
The Michigan Senate on Wednesday voted 36-1 to approve two bills (SB 1416 SB 1417) that would require girls in the state entering the sixth grade in the 2007-2008 school year and beyond to have received Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil the AP/Detroit Free Press reports (AP/Detroit Free Press 9/20). [click link for full article]
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Many Patients quit medicine too early (AP)
 AP - Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should researchers say and that decision can be deadly when the drugs treat heart disease or diabetes.
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