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Wall Street critic Warren to join U.S. Senate Banking Committee

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wall Street critic and Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren will join the Senate Banking Committee next year where she is likely to be a loud voice in favor of tight financial regulation. The Democratic Steering Committee on Wednesday approved committee assignments for Warren and other Senate Democrats, installing Senator Patty Murray of Washington state as chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee. Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who won a hard-fought election in Massachusetts, will now have a powerful platform from which to oversee banking regulation. …

Harvard Law School, Senate Banking Committee, Senate Budget Committee, Wall Street

Lawmaker: NFL players ‘trying to back out’ on HGH

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Accusing the NFL players' union of "trying to back out" of an August 2011 agreement to start checking for human growth hormone, a congressman worried aloud Wednesday that the league will head into next season without a test for the banned drug.

HGH, NFL

Lilly plans another study for Alzheimer’s drug

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Eli Lilly’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug has flashed potential to help with mild cases of the disease, but patients and doctors will have to wait a few more years to learn whether regulators will allow the drugmaker to sell it.

Venezuela’s Chavez is fine despite complex surgery: Correa

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

QUITO (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is “fine” even though the cancer surgery he underwent was complex, Ecuador’s leader Rafael Correa said on Wednesday. Chavez underwent a six-hour surgery in Cuba on Tuesday. “He is fine even though the surgery was complex,” Correa told reporters at the presidential palace. (Reporting by Alexandra Valencia; Writing by Eduardo Garcia; Editing by Will Dunham)

Cuba, Ecuador

Fewer cancer patients pick CPR after video demo

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dying cancer patients are less likely to want aggressive end-of-life care if they watch a short video about CPR than if they simply hear about it, according to a new study. “These are huge differences. You will die very differently if you watch the video than if you don’t,” said Dr. Angelo Volandes, the study’s lead author from Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. “All these patients had a terminal condition. It’s not like there was another treatment they were trying…So (CPR) was prolonging the dying process,” he said. …

Angelo Volandes, CPR

Ian McKellen Diagnosed With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Years Ago

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Doctors diagnosed Sir Ian McKellen with early-stage prostate cancer “six or seven years ago,” but he has undergone no invasive treatment, the English actor wrote today on his website. “The Hobbit” actor, 73, is “examined regularly” and his cancer is “contained,” according to the site….

Child Abuse Drops for Fifth Straight Year

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Abuse-related deaths also reached a 5-year low, U.S. data show.

Mind-body education helps irritable bowel syndrome

12/12/2012 majac Your Health Matters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who go through a mind-body educational course are better able to manage irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to a new study. The benefits of the course were modest, about as large as what are typically seen from taking medications, said Dr. Emeran Mayer, the senior author of the study and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. The program doesn’t work for everybody, said Mayer, but for others “it changed their lives. …

Emeran Mayer, Los Angeles

Camp Pendleton Marine Killed in Training Exercise

12/12/2012 majac Exercise

Military officials say a Navy corpsman was killed in a car accident during a Marine Corps training exercise at Camp Pendleton. Petty Officer 3rd Class Wilson Won Lee of Lakewood, Calif., died Sunday during the exercise on the base, north of San Diego.
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Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps, Petty Officer, San Diego

Report: Ohioans smoke more, exercise less

12/12/2012 majac Exercise

35 on America's Health Rankings annual list of the healthiest states despite continuing to rank high for unhealthy habits and conditions, including obesity, lack of exercise and smoking. Despite a statewide smoking ban, about 25 percent of the adult …
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Health Rankings

Local hospital participating in disaster exercise

12/12/2012 majac Exercise

Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center will host the event, which will simulate a radiological contamination emergency. The exercise will be used to help prepare emergency responders in the event an emergency like this should happen in real life.
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CSD's emergency exercise Concord XIII tests emergency response

12/12/2012 majac Exercise

CSD's emergency exercise Concord XIII tests emergency response – up-to-the-minute news and headlines. 7thSpace is a online portal covering topics such as Family, Business, Entertainment, Headlines, Recipes and more. A place for the …
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