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More US women having twins; rate at 1 in 30 babies (AP)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

AP – The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of test-tube babies and women waiting to have children until their 30s, when the chances of twins increase.

Panel urges lower cutoff for child lead poisoning (AP)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

AP – For the first time in 20 years, a federal panel is urging the government to lower the threshold for lead poisoning in children.

Dash Diet, Weight Watchers, named top diets

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

The panel of 22 experts ranked 25 popular diets overall, based on seven categories: short-term weight loss, long-term weight loss, easy to follow, nutrition, safety, diabetes and heart health. The fruit- and veggie-heavy Dash Diet contains many of the …
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Dash Diet, health

Weight Watchers diet: PROOF you can lose weight eating the food you love!

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

The underlying message, which makes Weight Watchers so popular with the medical community, is that by the time you reach your target weight, healthy eating should have become second nature — so weight loss is more likely to succeed long term. …
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Daily Mail

PROOF, Weight Watchers

‘Safety-First’ Playgrounds Linked to Bored, Inactive Kids: Study (HealthDay)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — Remember those tall, shiny,
metal, sliding boards? They seemed dauntingly steep, but you took the
plunge and whizzed downward. Next, you tackled the monkey bars, climbing
higher and higher and hanging by your knees at the pinnacle.

Cancer Incidence, Death Rates Continue to Drop: Report (HealthDay)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — Small but continued drops
in cancer incidence and deaths in the United States in recent years are
charted in a new report.

United States

New Guidelines Issued for Combining HIV, Seizure Meds (HealthDay)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — Physicians need to take
care when prescribing seizure medication to HIV/AIDS patients to prevent
harmful interactions between drugs, experts warn.

Potential Herpes Vaccine Disappoints Researchers (HealthDay)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — A potential vaccine for
genital herpes has shown only limited effectiveness in thwarting one type
of the sexually transmitted virus and no ability to stop a second type
from spreading, a new study shows.

Gene Mutation Linked to Chemo-Resistant Colon Cancer (HealthDay)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — Some people with advanced
colorectal cancer are resistant to some types of chemotherapy, and a
mutation in the so-called TFAP2E gene may play a part in that resistance,
German researchers report.

Cancer rates in U.S. keep falling: report (Reuters)

01/04/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Reuters – Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday.

American Cancer Society

Stricter security exercise at SRQ

01/04/2012 majac Exercise

The airport police and TSA did an exercise to check drivers before they even got to the terminal, looking for tools of terrorism. Andrew Burg expects security checks at home in Washington, DC But in Sarasota? “It's a little bit smaller for what I …
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Andrew Burg, SRQ, TSA

Neck Pain: Chiropractors, Exercise Better Than Medication, Study Says

01/04/2012 majac Exercise

After 12 weeks the patients who used a chiropractor or exercised were more than twice as likely to be pain free compared to those who relied on medicine. The patients treated by a chiropractor experienced the highest rate of success with 32 percent …
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ABC News (blog)

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