Thursday 31 May 2012

Extra Vitamin C May Help Lower Blood Pressure

Title: Extra Vitamin C May Help Lower Blood Pressure
Category: Health News
Created: 4/21/2012 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Students more likely to be fit when physical education is mandatory

Fifth graders in California public school districts that comply with the state?s mandatory physical education requirement are more likely to have better fitness levels than students in districts that don?t comply, according to a new study.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120504172018.htm

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Dieting May Lower Hormone Levels Tied to Breast Cancer

Title: Dieting May Lower Hormone Levels Tied to Breast Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 5/21/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158432

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Spider Phobia: Brain Scan Shows Cure in 1 Session

Title: Spider Phobia: Brain Scan Shows Cure in 1 Session
Category: Health News
Created: 5/22/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158453

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Drug Approved to Treat High Blood Pressure

Title: Drug Approved to Treat High Blood Pressure
Category: Health News
Created: 4/13/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=157101&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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Do Bald Men Face Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer?

Title: Do Bald Men Face Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer?
Category: Health News
Created: 5/22/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158442

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The Box Hill Olympic circuit, Surrey | Britain's best bike rides

This route gives you the chance to pit your strength and stamina against Olympians: it is the most testing section of the road race cycling event in London 2012
? Click here to view a map of the route

Distance 8 miles (12.8km)
Classification Moderate?difficult, depending on number of circuits
Start/finish Junction of Old London Road and The Zig Zag, Box Hill, RH5
Duration 1 hour
Route NCN routes 22 and 17
Map OS Explorer 146

Route notes

This loop, which has been popular with cyclists since the 1880s, gives you the chance to pit your strength and stamina against Olympians: it is the most testing section of the road race cycling event in London 2012. The Zig Zag Road, which has been likened to Alpe d'Huez in the French Alps, climbs 120m over 1.6 miles from the Mole Gap to the National Trust visitor centre at the summit before the route levels out with panoramic views, which have attracted crowds even before Jane Austen's heroine Emma had an unhappy picnic there.

Terrain and gradients

The Zig Zag Road has an average gradient of 4.9%, which you can feel in your legs by the top, where it levels out. It's on-road all the way, with good tarmac surface.

How to get there/away

The route is circular. Trains run to London Victoria at least once an hour every day from Boxhill and Westhumble or to Redhill and Guildford from Betchworth. Bikes can be taken on board free of charge, but only folding bikes are allowed during rush hour.

What to see

In the Olympic race a slightly extended version of this circuit (here we have cut out the busy A roads closed during the race) will be lapped nine times by male riders on their 155-mile race and twice by the women (87 miles) on the weekend of 28-29 July. It will form more than half the race for the men and, since much of the rest of the race is flat, the medals will be won or lost on the hairpin bends of the Zig Zag Road. The steady climb allows good cyclists to blast their way up and down. But nine times in the July heat will be a gruelling challenge even for Olympic athletes.

For the mere human beings among us, the attractions are the wonderful views, rolling chalk downs and serene beechwoods.

Watering holes

The cafe in the Box Hill Centre at the top of the hill serves light lunches. The Stepping Stones pub (Westhumble Street, Dorking), next to Boxhill & Westhumble station, has good pub grub and great ales.


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Sanofi aims to expand in diabetes market

PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofi aims to build on its diabetes portfolio, which has so far relied on blockbuster insulin Lantus, with a wider range of treatments that could address not just the disease but also its numerous complications, its research head said on Thursday.

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Patients Prefer More Invasive Form of Colon Scan: Study

Title: Patients Prefer More Invasive Form of Colon Scan: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 5/22/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

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FDA Panel Votes Against New Use for Blood Thinner Xarelto

Title: FDA Panel Votes Against New Use for Blood Thinner Xarelto
Category: Health News
Created: 5/24/2012 12:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication

Title: Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/11/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158064&k=Allergies_General

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Wednesday 30 May 2012

Surgical removal of abdominal fat reduces skin cancer in mice

In animal studies, Rutgers scientists have found that surgical removal of abdominal fat from mice fed a high-fat diet reduces the risk of ultraviolet-light induced skin cancer ? the most prevalent cancer in the United States with more than two million new cases each year ? by up to 80 percent.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521164056.htm

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Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication

Title: Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/11/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Sooner Is Better for Controlling Obese Kids' Weight: Study

Title: Sooner Is Better for Controlling Obese Kids' Weight: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158105&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Chronic Heartburn May Boost Risk for Esophageal Cancer

Title: Chronic Heartburn May Boost Risk for Esophageal Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 5/18/2012 2:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/21/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158373

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Screening for hereditary hemochromatosis a systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force

Author's objectives
To assess whether genetic screening for hereditary haemochromatosis is appropriate. Two review questions contributed to this objective: (1) Does earlier therapeutic phlebotomy reduce morbidity and mortality in individuals with primary iron overload resulting from hereditary haemochromatosis, compared with treatment after diagnosis in routine clinical care; and (2) Are there groups at increased risk for hereditary haemochromatosis that can be easily identified before genetic screening. The review also examined the risk of developing haemochromatosis in C282Y homozygous individuals; this review question is not reported here.

Author's conclusions
There was insufficient evidence to predict the impact of either widespread or high-risk screening for genetic haemochromatosis,...

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fexofenadine and pseudoephedrine, Allegra-D

Title: fexofenadine and pseudoephedrine, Allegra-D
Category: Medications
Created: 4/17/1999 10:29:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2012 12:00:00 AM

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U.S. States With Most, Least Deaths From Injuries

Title: U.S. States With Most, Least Deaths From Injuries
Category: Health News
Created: 5/22/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158443

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Research With Dogs Points to Early Test for Arthritis

Title: Research With Dogs Points to Early Test for Arthritis
Category: Health News
Created: 5/18/2012 4:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/21/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158376

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Being Obese May Make Job Search Tougher

Title: Being Obese May Make Job Search Tougher
Category: Health News
Created: 5/17/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158290&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication

Title: Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/11/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158064&k=Allergies_General

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Pennsylvania Law To End Mandatory Overtime for Some Health Care Workers

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill that will prohibit health care facilities from requiring mandatory overtime of staff, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The law, set to take effect in July 2009, seeks to protect health care facilities from forcing nurses, technicians, technologists, certified nursing assistants and phlebotomists, and other caregivers from being disciplined or discriminated against for refusing to work overtime. Mandatory overtime would be allowed in some cases, such as a natural disaster, but it could be used only as a last resort and employees would have to be given one hour to arrange for family care. Employers also are prohibited from using on-call time in place of mandatory overtime. Violators can be fined from $100 to $1,000 per vio...

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CDC Links Obesity, Arthritis, and Lack of Exercise

Title: CDC Links Obesity, Arthritis, and Lack of Exercise
Category: Health News
Created: 5/20/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/20/2011 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=144680

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Tuesday 29 May 2012

More Mental Health Care Urged for Kids Who Self-Harm

Title: More Mental Health Care Urged for Kids Who Self-Harm
Category: Health News
Created: 5/25/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/25/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158599

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Anorexia

Anorexia: An eating disorder characterized by markedly reduced appetite or total aversion to food. Anorexia is a serious psychological disorder. It is a condition that goes well beyond out-of-control dieting. The person with anorexia, most often a girl or young woman, initially begins dieting to lose weight. Over time, the weight loss becomes a sign of mastery and control. The drive to become thinner is thought to be secondary to concerns about control and fears relating to one's body. The individual continues the endless cycle of restrictive eating, often to a point close to starvation. This becomes an obsession and is similar to an addiction to a drug. Anorexia can be life-threatening. Also called anorexia nervosa.



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Mouse Study Sheds Light on How Diet May Affect Epilepsy

Title: Mouse Study Sheds Light on How Diet May Affect Epilepsy
Category: Health News
Created: 5/23/2012 2:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158520

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Surgical removal of abdominal fat reduces skin cancer in mice

In animal studies, Rutgers scientists have found that surgical removal of abdominal fat from mice fed a high-fat diet reduces the risk of ultraviolet-light induced skin cancer ? the most prevalent cancer in the United States with more than two million new cases each year ? by up to 80 percent.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521164056.htm

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Moveable Magnets Used to Forge Gastric Bypass in Pigs

Title: Moveable Magnets Used to Forge Gastric Bypass in Pigs
Category: Health News
Created: 5/21/2012 4:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158428&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Unnecessary Blood Tests Plunge After Cost Reminders: Study

Weekly reports to surgical staff on phlebotomy charges had desired effect, researchers say (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Hematology)

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Strokes More Common in Southern States: CDC

Title: Strokes More Common in Southern States: CDC
Category: Health News
Created: 5/24/2012 4:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/25/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158591

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Breast MRI Best at Tracking Response to Chemo: Study

Title: Breast MRI Best at Tracking Response to Chemo: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 5/23/2012 2:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158521

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Changing brains for the better: Article documents benefits of multiple practices, such as physical exercise and meditation

Practices like physical exercise, certain forms of psychological counseling and meditation can all change brains for the better, and these changes can be measured with the tools of modern neuroscience, according to a new review article.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120418095456.htm

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Health News of the Day

is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:Canada and the U.S. -- Comparing Key Physician Practice Parameters. An ObGyn practicing in Dade County, Fla., pays $222,000-$275,000 for basic $1 million/$3 million malpractice coverage. An internist practicing in Dade County, Fla would have paid $44,000-69,000 for malpractice coverage in 2007 http://bit.ly/2nSSPolice Officers In Some States Are Drawing Blood From Suspected Drunken Drivers on the Side of the Road. Lawyer: "A lot of people would be wary of having their blood drawn by an officer on the hood of their police vehicle." The police officer phlebotomists complete training after they...

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Diet fad of 'eating through the nose' could be a nightmare, nutrition expert says

What should be a fairy-tale day ? a woman?s wedding ? could turn into a nightmare for a bride-to-be who goes on a new feeding-tube diet to lose 20 pounds fast, says an expert.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120416150117.htm

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Friend groups may encourage kids to be more active

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids in after-school programs often increase their own physical activity if they make friends who run and jump around more than they do, a new study from Tennessee has found.

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Monday 28 May 2012

Losing belly fat, whether from a low-carb or a low-fat diet, helps improve blood vessel function

Overweight people who shed pounds, especially belly fat, can improve the function of their blood vessels no matter whether they are on a low-carb or a low-fat diet, according to a new study.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313230314.htm

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Unnecessary Blood Tests Plunge After Cost Reminders: Study

Weekly reports to surgical staff on phlebotomy charges had desired effect, researchers say (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Hematology)

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Health News of the Day

is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:Canada and the U.S. -- Comparing Key Physician Practice Parameters. An ObGyn practicing in Dade County, Fla., pays $222,000-$275,000 for basic $1 million/$3 million malpractice coverage. An internist practicing in Dade County, Fla would have paid $44,000-69,000 for malpractice coverage in 2007 http://bit.ly/2nSSPolice Officers In Some States Are Drawing Blood From Suspected Drunken Drivers on the Side of the Road. Lawyer: "A lot of people would be wary of having their blood drawn by an officer on the hood of their police vehicle." The police officer phlebotomists complete training after they...

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People With Diabetes May Need Earlier Colon Screen

Title: People With Diabetes May Need Earlier Colon Screen
Category: Health News
Created: 5/23/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158493

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FDA Panel Votes Against New Use for Blood Thinner Xarelto

Title: FDA Panel Votes Against New Use for Blood Thinner Xarelto
Category: Health News
Created: 5/24/2012 12:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Momentum builds for 20mph speed limit | John M Morrison

UK local authorities are taking a close look at the policy ? which is winning wider public support

Could a universal 20 mph speed limit on residential streets soon be as widely accepted as the smoking ban in pubs?

It's too soon to talk about a tipping point, but more and more UK local authorities are taking a close look at a policy which is winning wider public support.

Portsmouth, Oxford and other cities have pioneered the switch within the past five years, and campaigners from the 20's Plenty For Us movement say 8 million people now live in areas which are committed to adopting the limit for residential roads. They include Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield and a handful of London boroughs.

"I compare it to the ban on smoking in pubs," said one supporter at a conference in London this month. "That seemed controversial at the time and now it's accepted ? and it's self-enforcing."

But the most significant recruit to the cause may turn out to be Liverpool, where the local NHS trust will stump up �665,000 over four years to implement and study an extension of the city's 20mph limits to a majority of streets. Nobody yet knows if injecting money from the public health budget will pay back in reduced hospital costs for treating victims of road accidents or not, but it could be the start of a trend.

From 2013, local authorities, already responsible for road safety, will take on larger responsibilities for public health in England. The idea is that lowering road speeds may cut the NHS bill for treating crash victims, and also combat obesity by encouraging more walking and cycling.

Until last year most of the enquiries handled by the 20's Plenty movement came from individuals and campaigners; in 2012, says its founder, Rod King, more than half the inquiries have come from local government.

But while the momentum is growing and all three major parties are supportive, the government is against legislation.

"It is not the government policy to have a default limit. This is a matter of localism," the junior transport minister Norman Baker told a conference in London this month on 20mph limits. "It would be wrong for us to impose our view from Westminster and Whitehall ? those days are ending, I am happy to say."

Localism appears to be a happy compromise to which both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats can sign up as a way of papering over differences over how hard to push a policy which may still create a backlash from motorists.

Since the replacement of Philip Hammond by Justine Greening, the Department for Transport seems to have dropped the post-election rhetoric about "ending the war on the motorist" and become more confident in advocating lower traffic speeds. Baker, a Liberal Democrat, says he wants local authorities to think hard about 20mph limits, and is trying to make implementation easier and cheaper by simplifying guidance on signage and scrapping the previous requirement for extensive physical traffic calming.

Campaigners and local authorities say they still face a lack of cooperation from many police forces, who don't like the idea of 20mph limits on the grounds that they would have to enforce them.

Chief superintendant Jerry Moore of ACPO irritated some participants by telling them police would not support 20 mph limits unless they were self-enforcing, in practice ruling out their introduction on roads where speeds were higher than 24 mph at present. "Simply altering the signs and lowering the limit and dumping it on the police is inappropriate," he said.

Campaigners say evidence from Portsmouth and elsewhere shows strong public support for 20 mph limits, with up to 80% of residents backing the change. They say complaints from motorists that their fuel consumption and their journey times will rise steeply are based on myth.

But independent researchers say the public view on lower limits is characterised by what they call chronic Jimbyism ("just in my backyard"). Lower speed limits are popular, but compliance is low.

Road safety policy in the UK is traditionally driven by the goal of reducing the figures for KSI (killed and seriously injured). So what happens if cutting the speed limit actually increases casualty figures rather than reducing them? Campaigners say this hasn't happened, but it is hard to rule out the possibility that a surge in walking and cycling on roads previously dominated by cars might send the casualty count upwards, at least in absolute terms.

"The number of cycling injuries has to be measured against the number of miles cycled," Norman Baker told the conference. "The relationship between the two gives you the true picture." Advocates for cyclists and pedestrians point out that road casualty rates would immediately fall to zero for both groups if nobody ever rode a bike or walked. Not even Jeremy Clarkson is advocating that. So if the government wants more people to engage in "active travel", it must therefore be prepared for a higher level of risk.


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Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication

Title: Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/11/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Graduate School Introduces Allied Health Academic Programs

Beginning in October, the Graduate School's new Center for Health Sciences will offer a Medical Laboratory Technician, Associate of Applied Science degree and a certificate program in Phlebotomy. The first of many programs to be offered, both curricula provide a combination of coursework and clinical experience with strong emphasis on employability skills such as problem solving, effective communication, professional conduct, and information and technology literacy... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Women get less information on post-cancer fertility: study

(Reuters) - Cancer treatment can sometimes lead to infertility, but young women are far less likely than young men to be informed of this, according to a Swedish study.

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How Expensive Is That Blood Test?How Expensive Is That Blood Test?

Commentary on a study on whether physician awareness of hospital costs for daily phlebotomy would reduce the amount of tests ordered, published May 2011 in the Archives of Surgery. Medscape General Surgery (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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Obese More Likely to Be Diagnosed With Advanced Thyroid Cancer

Title: Obese More Likely to Be Diagnosed With Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 5/21/2012 6:05:00 PM
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Sunday 27 May 2012

Blood donation ban for gay men lifted

The lifetime blood donation ban for gay men has been lifted, meaning that homosexuals will soon be able to give blood. Men whose last sexual contact with another man was more than a year ago will be permitted to donate from Monday November 7th in England and Wales. However, those who had sex with another man within the past year will not be able to...

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Japanese-American Men With Low Vitamin-D Diet Face Higher Stroke Risk

Title: Japanese-American Men With Low Vitamin-D Diet Face Higher Stroke Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 5/24/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/25/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158592

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Anemia, Transfusion, and Phlebotomy Practices In Critically Ill Patients With Prolonged ICU Length of Stay: A Cohort Study

Small decreases in phlebotomy volume are associated with significantly reduced transfusion requirements in patients with prolonged ICU LOS.
Critical care (London, England) (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)

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Experimental Drug Targets Overactive Bladder

Title: Experimental Drug Targets Overactive Bladder
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What is the new exercise science fit for? | Matt Seaton

We know more about health and fitness than ever before, but knowledge is only an unqualified good when it has benefits for all

When I go to log in to the website managed by the maker of my sports watch, I get a vivid sense of how many people are doing the same thing. A counter ? like the one that shows the rising national debt ? displays a torrent of tumbling figures as people with the same brand of sports watch as mine clock up miles of running or biking. The total stands at 1.85bn miles ? or, as the site helpfully informs me, not quite 4,000 trips to the moon and back. Given all the times I've gone running or cycling and forgotten to start my watch and log the workout, I reckon we could claim that 4,000.

But it's not the miles that mean anything; mere miles are dumb. All those people with such sports watchs are also keeping track of their GPS-located routes, their pace and time, their calorie-burn, their heart-rate telemetry, and so on. A good proportion of those people could also give you decent working definitions of interval training, lactic threshold, the ATP system, VO2max and so on. A few years ago, these concepts belonged to an obscure priesthood of people with PhDs in human physiology. Nowadays, it's the lingua franca of the fitness coaching page in one of the recreational running or cycling magazine or any of the glossy health and fitness titles that promise "awesome abs" in five minutes a day.

Thanks to an information revolution over the past decade, a formerly arcane, laboratory-based field of human knowledge has passed into the realm of popular science. We are all exercise physiologists now.

I've watched this happen in several ways. In the mainstream media, blogs and columns have started up, which rely on culling titbits from academic research journals, translating and interpreting their findings for a lay reader. Among my bookmarks, for instance, are the excellent SweatScience and the New York Times's Phys Ed blog. Judging by how often the latter's articles ended up on the NYT's "most emailed" list, I'm not on my own.

One of my favourite examples of this breakthrough in the mass dissemination of specialist knowledge was the now famous 2009 paper presented at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting that found that chocolate milk is better at promoting athletic performance than pricey, purpose-made energy drinks. Not that this message seems to have quenched the marketing success of "scientifically" designed sports nutrition drinks.

At the serious end of the fitness fiend market, it's become routine for ambitious triathletes, runners and cyclists to subscribe to the services of a coach, either in person or via online correspondence. Training goals are set, workouts meticulously recorded, and performance monitored.

The technology enabling the analysis of all these individual workouts is constantly evolving: the GPS-enabled sports watches get cheaper, apps for smart phones mimic what they do, "democratising" the data-collection still further. Devices like power-meters, which precisely measure a cyclist's output in watts, were just a few years ago the preserve of professional athletes; now, they're commonplace among weekend warriors.

And finally, as a consequence of the boom in public demand for knowledge of athletic potential and performance, the hard science itself has become a sexy field. Suddenly, it is awash with research grants for all kinds of niche projects ? about, say, how exactly your muscle cell mitochondria react when saturated with hydrogen ions ? in order to feed the burgeoning academic journal publishing business, which in turn provides fodder for the popular blogs and newspaper columns.

For example, if, five or six years ago, you had wanted a VO2max test (the gold standard of aerobic fitness attainment, which measures how much oxygen your cardiovascular system can transport and use in a given time), you would have to pay a laboratory a three-figure fee to endure a horrible "ramp" test, aka "test to exhaustion", to get that number. Nowadays, it's common for researchers to advertise on cyclists' and runners' forums, seeking guinea pigs to hook up in their labs with electrodes.

Human subjects, of course, are not necessary for all studies. Consequently, there are also a lot of very fit rodents in labs these days ? which gives a new, literal meaning to the expression "gym rats". I guess, from a mouse's point of view, a life on a treadmill beats cancer research.

Animal welfare concerns aside, though, what could possibly be wrong with extending the breadth and depth of human knowledge? It may not be opera or poetry, but it's useful, valuable even. Especially where health and fitness are concerned, is it not simply an unqualified good that more people know more exercise science?

Yes, and no. In practical terms, I would want to ask who, for instance, is getting the most value from this boom in sports science? Are its benefits evenly distributed? But there is a philosophical dimension also. As with any epistemological event, we should look behind the claims to the value-neutrality of pure science, and examine the ideology implicit in the "new knowledge". In this case: the proposition that there is an unlimited potential of athletic performance that can be realised with the correct scientific tools has at its kernel the idea of human perfectibility.

The quest for the body beautiful has many noble aspects: an Apollonian dream that can claim a heritage from Plato, through the Renaissance, to the Enlightenment and Modernism. But its fantasy of humanity's godlike self-actualisation also brought us, variously, racial "science" and eugenics, Leni Riefenstahl's ode to Hitler's Olympics, Ayn Rand's Nietzschean elite and so on.

Do I seriously see the spectre of fascism in contemporary exercise science? No, that would be ahistorical: eugenics-based racial "science" was specifically the nightmare flip side of the mid-20th century's fantasy of human perfectibility.

Every age gets the science it deserves, in the sense that its scientific interests and knowledge reflect the larger preoccupations, ideological themes and social conflicts of a given epoch. Twenty-first century western society is characterised by a growing gap between rich and poor, with power distributed ever more oligarchically by the market's "invisible hand", to the detriment of increasingly dysfunctional and hollow institutions of formal democracy. Since that is the larger context for the new sports science, which is our version of the perfectability trope, what we risk is a dichotomy between the super-fit 1% and the morbidly unhealthy 99%.

On one side of exercise science's epistemological divide, a fabulously toned elite is getting a perfect balance of carbs, protein and minerals, washed down with potassium-rich "natural" coconut milk in cartons that cost about the same as the hourly minimum wage, which fuels a daily personal trainer-coached session of high-intensity interval training. At 60 plus, the members of this exercise elite still have the body that 99% of the population stopped seeing in the mirror in their teens. Existential reality for the latter is survival against a backdrop of declining real income, indebtedness, time-crunched family life, and heavily marketed, mass-produced instant gratification dietary options.

For the majority of people, better health would be worth having; fitness is a luxury few can afford. To her credit, Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds implicitly recognises the problematic of privilege and inequality in her new book, with a self-explanatory title that is getting a great deal of play: The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smart, Live Longer. The attempted populism of her message is that the science tells us that you only need to get up off the couch and walk around for 20 minutes to be healthy; you don't need to work our harder than that to get most of the benefits of exercise. It's an admirable impulse, but will it by itself bridge the gap between society's skinny perfectionists and the broad mass of people?

The new sports science is not to blame for our society's inequalities of health and fitness, but it is a register of them, however we prefer to see our science as value-free and neutral. The dream of human perfectibility always has a strong and unattractive strand of self-congratulation. It is marvelous to be a perfect specimen of scientific fitness; in many ways, it is its own reward. But it is also good to recognise the inherent risk in those swelling feelings of superiority and bear in mind that inquiring into the conditions that produce society's fitness-"havenots" may be more useful application of knowledge.


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Dieting May Lower Hormone Levels Tied to Breast Cancer

Title: Dieting May Lower Hormone Levels Tied to Breast Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 5/21/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158432

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Health Tip: Keep Magnets Away From Children

Title: Health Tip: Keep Magnets Away From Children
Category: Health News
Created: 5/25/2012 8:05:00 AM
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Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=DailyHealth&a=158597

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Leafy greens help prevent damage caused by a workout, study suggests

Researchers have found that antioxidant-rich leafy greens can alleviate the natural stress put on our body by a workout.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120425115338.htm

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Sooner Is Better for Controlling Obese Kids' Weight: Study

Title: Sooner Is Better for Controlling Obese Kids' Weight: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158105&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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IntelliDOT Corporation: Mission Regional Medical Center Selects IntelliDOT as a Key Component of Its Bedside Patient Safety Initiative

SAN DIEGO, CA (MARKET WIRE) IntelliDOT Corporation, a leading provider of wireless, handheld barcode point-of-care (BPOC) solutions to hospitals, today announced that Mission Regional Medical Center, Mission, Texas, has selected IntelliDOT to help eliminate phlebotomy specimen collection errors at the bedside. The non-profit, 297-bed medical center, which provides general hospital services to the people of the Rio Grande Valley, will begin installing IntelliDOT Phlebotomy Specimen Collection (IntelliDOT PSC(TM)) in the first quarter of 2009. (Source: Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech)

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Saturday 26 May 2012

Researchers Say Volume of Blood Collected from Hospitalized Myocardial Infarction Patients Can Contribute to Anemia

Findings may lead clinical pathology laboratories to update phlebotomy guidelines What is the proper quantity of blood to draw from a patient for medical laboratory testing purposes? That question has been debated regularly for decades by pathologists and clinical laboratory scientists. Now a recent study shows a connection between blood draw practices and hospital-acquired anemia [...] (Source: Dark Daily)

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Being Obese May Make Job Search Tougher

Title: Being Obese May Make Job Search Tougher
Category: Health News
Created: 5/17/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158290

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'Blast Wind' Linked to Chronic Brain Injuries in Military

Title: 'Blast Wind' Linked to Chronic Brain Injuries in Military
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 4:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158272

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Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

Kate Moss shows her uninteresting side, dummy missiles land on a London doorstep ? and an unlucky cyclist gets taken for an unexpected ride

Word failure

Kate Moss confirms she has nothing interesting to say in a monosyllabic online interview with Vogue.

Blasted rockets

London resident Brian Whelan has taken a video of what look like unguarded missiles outside his east London flat. The MOD is claiming they are 'dummies'. Still, not what you expect to find on your doorstep.

He's Boss

Homeland is over. What next? We're hoping Boss, a new US drama starring Frasier's Kelsey Grammer as a crooked Chicago mayor, will be coming here soon.

Do keep-uppy

Dan Mangess is spending 10 days walking from London to Manchester while attempting to break the world record for keepy uppies.

Wheel spin

A cyclist caught in the slipstream of a lorry ended up doing 56mph along a motorway last week. And without a helmet. Yikes.


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More patients being screened for blood clots

More patients will be screened for deadly blood conditions such as venous thromboembolism (VTE) under a new scheme by the Department of Health. Since July 2010, 14. 3 million people have been tested for the disease, which causes 25,000 deaths a year, and health minister Simon Burns has announced that even more patients will be screened in the...

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Consumer Reports Rates Best Sunscreen Buys

Title: Consumer Reports Rates Best Sunscreen Buys
Category: Health News
Created: 5/25/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/25/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=DailyHealth&a=158601

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Caffeine and exercise may be protective against skin cancer caused by sun exposure, study suggests

The combined effects of exercise plus caffeine consumption may be able to ward off skin cancer and also prevent inflammation related to other obesity-linked cancers.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120403142328.htm

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Cell responses 'may explain ethnic differences in hypertension'

Differences in cell response may explain why African-Americans are more vulnerable to hypertension than Caucasians. Research published in Vascular Health and Risk Management investigated the effect of an inflammation-causing protein in both African-Americans and Caucasians. When the protein was applied, there was seen to be an almost 90 per cent...

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Flesh Eating Bacteria and Lupus

Title: Flesh Eating Bacteria and Lupus
Category: Health News
Created: 5/15/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158180

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Lifesaving Defibrillators Often Not Nearby When Needed

Title: Lifesaving Defibrillators Often Not Nearby When Needed
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158106

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Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication

Title: Health Tip: Having an Allergy to Medication
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/11/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158064&k=Allergies_General

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Many Strokes Occur in Sleep, Preventing Treatment

Title: Many Strokes Occur in Sleep, Preventing Treatment
Category: Health News
Created: 5/10/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/10/2011 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=144211

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Friday 25 May 2012

Low Vitamin D at Birth Linked to Lung Infections

Title: Low Vitamin D at Birth Linked to Lung Infections
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/11/2011 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=144259

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Exercise and caffeine change your DNA in the same way, study suggests

When healthy but inactive men and women exercise for a matter of minutes, it produces a rather immediate change to their DNA. Perhaps even more tantalizing, the study suggests that the caffeine in your morning coffee might also influence muscle in essentially the same way.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306131254.htm

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Losing belly fat, whether from a low-carb or a low-fat diet, helps improve blood vessel function

Overweight people who shed pounds, especially belly fat, can improve the function of their blood vessels no matter whether they are on a low-carb or a low-fat diet, according to a new study.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313230314.htm

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A Better Way to Assess Body Fat and Health Risk?

Title: A Better Way to Assess Body Fat and Health Risk?
Category: Health News
Created: 5/12/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158112&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Runner's high motivated the evolution of exercise, research suggests

Runners often extol the virtues of the runner's high, but now a team of researchers suggest that the runner's high could have evolved to motivate us to exercise as part of our early long-distance nomadic lifestyle.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120322100307.htm

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The Joint Commission Explains Patient Identification Requirement Changes

Response to comments from Dennis Ernst of the Center for Phlebotomy Education
Recently Dark Daily alerted clinical laboratory readers to a decision by The Joint Commission to change their requirements for patient identification. Included was the opinion of Dennis Ernst,� MT(ASCP), long time Director of the Center for Phlebotomy Education, that The Joint Commission?s decision [...] (Source: Dark Daily)

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Death risk for marathoners remains low during or soon after race

Even though hundreds of thousands more people finished grueling 26.2 mile marathons in the United States in 2009 compared to a decade earlier, a runner?s risk of dying during or soon after the race has remained very low ? about .75 per 100,000, new research suggests. Men, however, were twice as likely to die as women.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516092708.htm

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Early Study Hints at Link Between Certain Sunscreens, Endometriosis

Title: Early Study Hints at Link Between Certain Sunscreens, Endometriosis
Category: Health News
Created: 5/17/2012 2:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/18/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158318

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Seventh Sense Biosystems Secures $4.5 Million of Two-Tranche $10 Million Extension of its Series A Financing

Funds to be Used to Advance the Company�s Transformative Touch Activated Phlebotomy� Technology Platform

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)-- Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc., a company redefining blood sampling and health diagnostic... Devices, Diagnostics, Venture CapitalSeventh Sense Biosystems, Touch Activated Phlebotomy (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)

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Parents Often Lose Sleep Over Child's Epilepsy, Study Finds

Title: Parents Often Lose Sleep Over Child's Epilepsy, Study Finds
Category: Health News
Created: 5/17/2012 4:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/18/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158332

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Inhaled Steroids Lead to Big Drop in Asthma Deaths at Texas Hospital: Study

Title: Inhaled Steroids Lead to Big Drop in Asthma Deaths at Texas Hospital: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 5/15/2012 2:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158220

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Thursday 24 May 2012

People With HIV at Higher Odds of Sudden Cardiac Death

Title: People With HIV at Higher Odds of Sudden Cardiac Death
Category: Health News
Created: 5/14/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=158164

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Rogue blood cells 'cause post-surgery damage'

Rogue blood cells may contribute to post-surgery organ damage, new findings suggest. Some super-activated neutrophils were found to re-enter the blood stream after some surgeries, subsequently causing damage to other parts of the body, according to the research published in journal Nature Immunology. Scientists used pioneering imaging techniques...

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Weight-Loss Surgery May Also Help Menstruation, Skin, Hair

Title: Weight-Loss Surgery May Also Help Menstruation, Skin, Hair
Category: Health News
Created: 5/11/2012 4:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=158103&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Psoriasis

Psoriasis: A reddish, scaly rash often located over the surfaces of the elbows, knees, scalp, and around or in the ears, navel, genitals or buttocks. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that is mediated by T lymphocytes. It is also a very common disease, Chronic plaque psoriasis affects approximately 2% of people around the world. About 10-15% of patients with psoriasis develop joint inflammation (inflammatory arthritis). Treatment options include topical steroid creams, tar soap preparations, and exposure to ultraviolet light.

See also: Erythrodermic psoriasis; Flexural psoriasis; Guttate psoriasis; Inverse psoriasis; Plaque psoriasis ; Psoriatic arthritis.



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Research needed to combat stored red blood cell power...

The longer red blood cells are stored, the lower their lifesaving power, a new study has revealed. A Duke University Medical Center team revealed that banked blood undergoes a change during storage which inhibits its ability to transport oxygen, according to the study published in journal Critical Care Medicine. Somehow slowing the process of the...

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Allergies Ahead of Schedule in Eastern United States

Title: Allergies Ahead of Schedule in Eastern United States
Category: Health News
Created: 3/22/2012 2:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 3/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=156266&k=Allergies_General

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Education Is Key to Health: Report

Title: Education Is Key to Health: Report
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Enrollment Increases by 73% in Massachusetts Premium-Assistance Program for Laid-Off Workers

Enrollment in a Massachusetts program designed to help unemployed state residents pay health insurance premiums has increased by 73% in the past year, the Boston Globe reports. The state Medical Security Program, which is funded by a tax on employers, pays 80% of a laid-off worker's monthly insurance premium for up to 46 weeks. For people who cannot afford to retain their coverage, even with the assistance money, the program offers full basic coverage and charges a copayment of about $15 per doctor visit. To be eligible for the program, an individual's family income for the six months prior to being unemployed plus projected income for the next six months must not exceed 400% of the federal poverty level. About 13,000 unemployed state residents were enrolled in the program at the end of No...

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The Joint Commission Explains Patient Identification Requirement Changes

Response to comments from Dennis Ernst of the Center for Phlebotomy Education
Recently Dark Daily alerted clinical laboratory readers to a decision by The Joint Commission to change their requirements for patient identification. Included was the opinion of Dennis Ernst,� MT(ASCP), long time Director of the Center for Phlebotomy Education, that The Joint Commission?s decision [...] (Source: Dark Daily)

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fexofenadine and pseudoephedrine, Allegra-D

Title: fexofenadine and pseudoephedrine, Allegra-D
Category: Medications
Created: 4/17/1999 10:29:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Sunscreen Ingredient Linked to Endometriosis

Title: Sunscreen Ingredient Linked to Endometriosis
Category: Health News
Created: 5/12/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

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