Sugar 'n' Spice Not Always Nice

Title: Sugar 'n' Spice Not Always Nice
Category: Health News
Created: 11/8/2012 12:35:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 11/9/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Living Together May Be Mentally Healthier Than Marriage: Study

Title: Living Together May Be Mentally Healthier Than Marriage: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 1/23/2012 8:07:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153903

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Surgeon General Urges Support for Breastfeeding

Title: Surgeon General Urges Support for Breastfeeding
Category: Health News
Created: 1/21/2011 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/21/2011 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=124946

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Health Tip: Exercise for Healthier Bones

Title: Health Tip: Exercise for Healthier Bones
Category: Health News
Created: 1/24/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/24/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153904

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Is Knee Osteoarthritis a Symmetrical Disease?Is Knee Osteoarthritis a Symmetrical Disease?

How common is bilateral knee osteoarthritis? This population-based cohort study investigates. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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Mild vibrations may provide exercise-like benefits for obese

If you're looking to get some of the benefits of exercise without doing the work, here's some good news. A new research report shows that low-intensity vibrations led to improvements in the immune function of obese mice. If the same effect can be found in people, this could have clinical benefits for obese people suffering from a wide range of immune problems related to obesity.

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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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Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise in Monkeys

Title: Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise in Monkeys
Category: Health News
Created: 1/20/2012 6:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Venepuncture survey for all healthcare professionals working in phlebotomy

The National Association of Phlebotomists (NAP) is conducting a nationwide survey of all professionals delivering, training or managing a phlebotomy service. The survey is being mailed directly to all NAP members and is open to all UK Phlebotomists.

Twenty thousand paper copies of the survey are being sent out, targeting Phlebotomists, GP practices and NHS trainers across the UK. In addition, 16,000 IBMS members are being contacted to invite them to participate in the largest online survey ever undertaken in the 10 year history of the NAP.

The NAP needs every members continuing support and help with this essential effort to provide substantial evidence for the Health Professions Council, implement NVQ level 3 qualification standards and achieve full professional recognition.

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Avastin May Help Fight Early Breast Cancer

Title: Avastin May Help Fight Early Breast Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 1/26/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/26/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=154008

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Health Tip: When Stress Becomes Dangerous

Title: Health Tip: When Stress Becomes Dangerous
Category: Health News
Created: 1/23/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Table of Contents

Abstract
APA Board Approves Final Criteria for New DSM?5: Field Assessing Impact
Review: Combination Strategy Merits Exploration for Preventing PTSD
Ketamine: A Hope for Treatment?Resistant Depression or Party Drug of the '70s?
Intranasal Ketamine Examined for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
CBT and Relaxation Therapy for OCD in Young Children
Medication Use in Autistic Youth Examined
Antidepressant Polypharmacy in Children and Adolescents
Zinc for Children with ADHD
Cost Effectiveness of Guanfacine ER versus Atomoxetine for ADHD
Study: Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Autism
Ondansetron Health Risk (Source: The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update)

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Why I donated my bone marrow

William Hudson, a producer in the CNN Medical Unit, donated his own bone marrow to an anonymous recipient. This is his story. (Source: CNN.com - Health)

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Social Media May Help Fight Childhood Obesity

Title: Social Media May Help Fight Childhood Obesity
Category: Health News
Created: 12/4/2012 5:19:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 12/5/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=DailyHealth&a=165669

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Lose fat faster before breakfast

People can burn up to 20% more body fat by exercising in the morning on an empty stomach, according to new research.

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Mission Regional Medical Center Selects IntelliDOT As A Key Component Of Its Bedside Patient Safety Initiative

IntelliDOT Corporation, a leading provider of wireless, handheld barcode point-of-care (BPOC) solutions to hospitals, recently announced that Mission Regional Medical Center, Mission, Texas, has selected IntelliDOT to help eliminate phlebotomy specimen collection errors at the bedside (Source: Medical Design Online News)

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Eyes May Reveal Multiple Sclerosis Progression

This study suggests that retinal thinning, measured by in-office eye scans, called OCT, may occur at higher rates in people with earlier and more active MS." Peter Calabresi, MD. and team recruited 164 participants from Johns Hopkins MS Center... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise in Monkeys

Title: Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise in Monkeys
Category: Health News
Created: 1/20/2012 6:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/23/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153846

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Oxygen-free energy designed to fuel brain development spurs on growth of cancer

The metabolic process which fuels the growth of many cancers has its origins in normal brain growth finds a new study. Using knock-out mice the study shows that interfering with Hexokinase-2 (Hk2), an enzyme integral to glucose metabolism, reduces the aggressiveness of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children, and allows long term survival of mice.

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Heartburn Meds Won't Help, May Harm Kids With Asthma

Title: Heartburn Meds Won't Help, May Harm Kids With Asthma
Category: Health News
Created: 1/24/2012 6:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/25/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153953

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Time for transition? We can help.

Kitty O'Hare, MD

By Kitty O?Hare, MD, coordinator of Transition Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Martha Eliot Health Center.
The field of pediatric medicine has come a long way in the past few decades. Kids with health conditions like sickle cell disease, heart conditions, even cancer are living, full, healthy lives into adulthood.
It’s a great accomplishment, but with increased survival rates come unique challenges. In addition to treating their chronically ill patients, today’s pediatricians need to prepare them for adult life, where they will be responsible for managing their own health. But according to a recent national survey, we doctors aren’t as good at helping our patients transition into adulthood as we could be: less than half of all ...

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Diet and alternative therapies in the management of stone disease.

Authors: Penniston KL, Nakada SY
Abstract
Although nonnutritional factors affect the risk for renal stone development, nutrition is widely viewed as contributory and is frequently included as part of the therapeutic regimen in secondary stone prevention. In this article, the therapeutic application of nutritional recommendations to address specific risk factors of urolithiasis is reviewed. The article focuses on calcium-containing and uric acid stones. The general approach to nutrition therapy is addressed first, and empiric and tailored approaches are discussed. How to assess a patient's nutrition risk for lithogenesis is reviewed, and the implementation or practice of nutrition therapy is discussed.
PMID: 23177633 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Urologic Clinics of North A...

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CNN Explains: Asperger's syndrome

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. (Source: CNN.com - Health)

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Mothers' Weight-Loss Surgery Linked to Kids' Heart Health

Title: Mothers' Weight-Loss Surgery Linked to Kids' Heart Health
Category: Health News
Created: 10/29/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/29/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=164453&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Americans Aren't Getting Any Skinnier

Title: Americans Aren't Getting Any Skinnier
Category: Health News
Created: 1/17/2012 2:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/18/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153675

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Health Tip: Do Your Feet Have Poor Circulation?

Title: Health Tip: Do Your Feet Have Poor Circulation?
Category: Health News
Created: 9/17/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=163003&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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Health Tip: Stick With Your Healthy New Year's Resolutions

Title: Health Tip: Stick With Your Healthy New Year's Resolutions
Category: Health News
Created: 1/19/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/20/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153785

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Sugar 'n' Spice Not Always Nice

Title: Sugar 'n' Spice Not Always Nice
Category: Health News
Created: 11/8/2012 12:35:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 11/9/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Expanding waistlines may be due to alcohol

HOUSTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Those who can't lose weight despite exercising and cutting back on high-calorie food may be drinking too many calories from beverages, a U.S. dietitian says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)

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FDA approves Roche's Tamiflu for infants with new flu symptoms

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expanded the use of Tamiflu, the flu drug from Roche, to children as young as two weeks old who have shown flu symptoms for no more than two days. (Source: Reuters: Health)

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Tour de France's Yorkshire visit sparks excitement in British cycling's home

In Harrogate, where CTC cycling group was born, anticipation of the world's greatest bike race is particularly intense

There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk. But since Thursday, when it was revealed that the town would play a pivotal role in next year's Tour de France, the place had been "buzzing", said Bill Cunningham, the owner of two local bike shops, Boneshakers and a Specialized Concept Store, the second of which is highly likely to be just metres from the finish of the first stage in 2014.

"We had 10 people in this morning asking if we were selling seats," said Cunningham in slight disbelief on Friday. "I remember when I heard last year that Yorkshire was bidding to host the Tour and I must admit I chuckled. Yorkshire? Not a chance! I was gobsmacked when we won. What an achievement."

He is expecting to do big business over the next 18 months. Interest in cycling was already high following Sir Bradley Wiggins's triumph in last year's Tour. But since it was announced in December that Yorkshire would be hosting the grand d�part, the prestigious start of the 2014 edition of the race, trade has been up 40% year-on-year.

Of all the towns and villages lucky enough to see the peloton whizzing past next year, Harrogate arguably deserves it most. The North Yorkshire spa town is famous as the poshest place east of the Pennines, home to the first Bettys tea rooms, and Britain's loveliest Turkish baths.

But look carefully near the St George Hotel and you will see a plaque commemorating Harrogate's very special place in cycling history. On 5 August 1878, the Bicycle Touring Club ? one of Britain's first cycling clubs ? was formed inside the pub when a Scotsman called Stanley Cotterell pedalled his penny farthing all the way from Edinburgh to meet like-minded "velocipede enthusiasts" from around the UK.

Ten years later the BTC became the CTC ? the Cyclists' Touring Club, which today is the biggest cycling organisation in the UK, with 70,000 members. According to Lionel Joseph, 90, who was the CTC's archivist until he turned 83, the name change, which came about in 1883, was prompted by protests from those who favoured three wheels over two. "A bicycle club couldn't have tricyclists in it," he explained.

Harrogate is also famed as the home, in later life, of one of Britain's most brilliant cyclists, Beryl Burton, who died in 1996. From the late 1950s to the 1980s, she won more than 90 domestic titles, seven world championship titles and in 1967 set a women's record for the 12-hour time trial that beat the men's record for two years, and still stands as the women's record.

It was also home to Ron Kitching, who became well loved in the cycling world in the 60s and 70s when he started importing exotic Italian bike components to his shop in the town.

Burton's daughter, Denise Burton-Cole, went on to become a professional cyclist herself, once riding the women's edition of the Tour. She still lives locally, in Ripon, which will feature in stage one in 2014. She said her mother would have loved to see the world's most famous bike race pass through her beloved Yorkshire. "She would have been as excited as I am. I can picture her face, looking at the route maps and deciding where best to watch so that she could watch a climb and get back to Harrogate in time for the finish."

There are many people who can claim credit for persuading Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, that the first two stages of next year's race should begin in Yorkshire and not Berlin or Venice or Edinburgh. They include the team at Welcome to Yorkshire, who did the legwork. The 170,000 who signed the petition. Simon Gueller, chef of the Box Tree restaurant in Ilkley, which fed Prudhomme and his posse during their recce of the county last spring ? not to mention the Yorkshire lambs which were sacrificed for their dinner.

But Martin Weeks, a member of Wheel Easy, one of Harrogate's three cycling clubs, also played his part. "It was supposed to be a secret when Prudhomme was coming to visit, but word leaked out," said Weeks, "so as many of us as possible decided to get out on our bikes the day we knew he was going to be here. We wanted him to pass cyclists everywhere he went, to believe Yorkshire is full of enthusiastic people on bikes." It was just one of the guerrilla tactics deployed by the typically tenacious tykes. Another was the clever deployment of Mark Cavendish, the fastest man on a bike, winner of the sprinters' green jersey in the 2011 Tour.

Cav, as he is known in the peloton, is a Manxman by birth but has strong links to Harrogate (his mum is from the spa town and his uncle still lives there). Welcome to Yorkshire persuaded him to back the bid in a video clip, which it played on the big screen in Leeds city centre at the very moment Prudhomme happened to be walking past.

The Frenchman couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. "I remember looking up and suddenly seeing Cavendish on the big screen, sitting in a big chair, wearing his glasses and explaining why the Tour had to come to Yorkshire," recalled Prudhomme at the gala dinner held at Leeds city hall last week. "I was like Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. You talkin' to me? You talkin' to ME?"

The ploy worked. And so on Saturday, 5 July, next year approximately 200 riders will gather in Leeds for the grand d�part. The 118-mile stage will head out via Harewood, Otley and Ilkley, before heading up to Aysgarth and then the famous Buttertubs Pass between Swaledale and Wensleydale. After passing through Reeth, Leyburn and Ripon, the organisers expect a sprint finish in Harrogate. "Mark Cavendish might like to place his mother in Harrogate," said Prudhomme on Thursday.

On Sunday, 6 July, Harrogate will have its second day in the sun ? or rain, depending on how the weather gods are feeling ? when stage two, from York to Sheffield, passes through the town .

The tour might still be a year and a half off, but local cyclists can hardly wait. "When I heard the news I ran around the house like an excited kid," said James Lovell, founder of Harrogate's Cappuccino Cycling Club, which likes to combine rides with stops at Yorkshire's nicest cafes.

"Our club has a Facebook group and the page went into warp speed overdrive. Everyone was talking about the Tour." When he spoke to the Observer on Friday, Lovell had just called a club meeting at a local pub to "discuss our Tour preparations". They planned to recce the routes as soon as the snow melts, said Lovell. "We can't wait."

• Tour de France
• Cycling
• Cycling
• Fitness

Helen Pidd

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/tour-de-france-yorkshire-excitement

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VACUETTE� VISIO PLUS Needle - Bringing Vision to Blood Collection

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Peter Walker | Which really is more deadly: cycling or sitting down watching TV?

New scientific guidance about the 'invisible danger' of inactivity puts cycle safety in perspective

Sometimes, it seems, to get some perspective on the vexed issue of cycling and particularly cycle safety you need to chat not to a transport expert, let alone a government official, but a scientist.

This occurred to me earlier this week as I watched three fairly eminent scientists with a specialism in public health unveil new recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Our news story on it is here, but in essence it calls for walking and cycling to become the norm for short trips as a way to combat the increasingly desperate extent of health problems connected to inactivity and obesity.

After they'd introduced the report the floor was open for questions. One of the first was on cycle safety: had they taken into account the potential perils of riding a bike?

The answer from Dr Harry Rutter, lead author of the report and an adviser at the National Obesity Observatory ? they gather data on obesity, as opposed to peering at the big-boned from a very great distance ? is worth quoting in full:

All activities carry a risk. For some reason there seems to be strong focus on the risk of injury associated with cycling. Clearly, when deaths do takes place that's tragic, and we need to do all we can to avoid them. But I think there is a perception that cycling is much more dangerous than it really is.

This focus on the dangers of cycling is something to do with the visibility of them, and the attention it's given. What we don't notice is that if you were to spend an hour a day riding a bike rather than being sedentary and driving a car there's a cost to that sedentary time. It's silent, it doesn't get noticed. What we're talking about here is shifting the balance from that invisible danger of sitting still towards the positive health benefits of cycling.

It's something most cyclists know about but it's worth reiterating. Plus, I like the notion of an "invisible danger". People go on at exhaustive length about the perils of cycling because cycling remains niche. Sitting around on one's arse watching EastEnders and eating Pringles is, however, a national pursuit, and not enough people make the connection between that and an impact on health which is, the scientists told us, now on a par with that from smoking.

In the collection of quotes assembled for the press pack there was a good one on this point from Philip Insall, head of health for the active transport charity Sustrans:

If a virus was this deadly it would fill the front pages and dominate debate in parliament.

The second point that caught my attention came in response to a slightly carping question from me. Such advice, I asked, is all very well but will it really change much in the absence of concerted government action over safe walking and cycling routes?

Professor Mike Kelly of Nice sighed very slightly and presented me with a parallel: efforts to curb smoking. It took a full 60 years after the proof of cigarettes' harm to reach the relative nirvana of a ban on smoking in public places. View the report, he said, not as an end in itself but as "one further accumulation of the evidence", part of a long-term process, albeit one he hopes will take less than 60 years.

Good advice, particularly for a semi-professional cycle policy malcontent such as me.

Perhaps the best point, however, came again from Rutter as he was asked what more could be done to promote active travel. He replied:

There are two interventions that we know increase walking and cycling: living in the Netherlands and living in Denmark.

Behind the half absurd statement lies this central truth: there's no magic behind getting people on their feet or on their bikes, it just takes sufficient political will. If the Dutch and Danish did so in the 1960s and 70s, so can we now.

• Cycling
• Transport policy
• Health
• Obesity
• Public services policy
• Health & wellbeing
• Fitness
• Health policy
• Road safety
• Transport

Peter Walker

guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/nov/28/deadly-cycling-sitting-watching-tv

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Low muscle strength in adolescence linked to increased risk of early death

Low muscle strength in adolescence is strongly associated with a greater risk of early death from several major causes, suggests a large study.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/fitness/~3/gpscCoHLxOs/121120193519.htm

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Bringing care closer to home

Meet Kevin Blake, a long-time patient of Children?s. In the following, his mother, Laurie, describes what having access to Children?s services closer to home has meant to their family.


Kevin and brother David

My son Kevin was born with multiple congenital abnormalities. He has moderate to severe hearing loss, low muscle tone and a handful of developmental delays. When he was born we instantly knew he was a special kid, and I immediately felt very protective of him. Life may be a bit tougher for Kevin, but his vulnerabilities and strength to work through them is nothing short of amazing, and in doing so he inspires my husband Dan and I to be better parents. As Dan says, ?If there are a certain percentage of children born with special needs, then I?m glad we have one of them, be...

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Not only red wine ups 'good' cholesterol

HOUSTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Despite popular notions it's just red wine that positively impacts cholesterol levels, any alcohol will do, a U.S. metabolic disease expert says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)

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Junk Food Hurts Your Arteries, But Healthy Meal Might Help

Title: Junk Food Hurts Your Arteries, But Healthy Meal Might Help
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2012 2:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 11/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=164576&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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J&J mulls sale of diagnostics unit

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson may sell or spin off its slow-growing $2 billion-a-year diagnostics business, the company said on Tuesday when it reported quarterly earnings.

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/healthNews/~3/FIXgVbBlVns/us-jj-results-idUSBRE90L0H520130122

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Cardiovascular Outcomes And Reduction Of Body Iron Stores

The reduction of body iron stores through phlebotomy (blood removal) in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) does not appear to decrease the risk of death plus nonfatal cardiovascular events, according to a study published in JAMA.PAD is a partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or an arm. [click link for full article] (Source: Seniors / Aging News From Medical News Today)

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Health Tip: Do Your Feet Have Poor Circulation?

Title: Health Tip: Do Your Feet Have Poor Circulation?
Category: Health News
Created: 9/17/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=163003&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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How Touching Saves Lives

When I was a fourth-year medical student, I once did a month-long rotation in the ER. One night a woman came in who we decided needed some lab work. When I let her know we needed to draw her blood, she began to tremble visibly. "I'm scared of needles," she whispered to me.She squeezed her eyes shut as the phlebotomist set up next to her gurney to draw her blood. "It'll be over before you know it," I tried to encourage her. She didn't even acknowledge I'd spoken.The phlebotomist glanced at me once, concerned probably more that the patient was going to jump or prove to be a hard stick, and then said to her, "You're going to feel a little poke."The patient tensed, tears appearing at the corners of her closed eyes. Not knowing what else to do, I reached out and took her hand, feeling awkward a...

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Novartis wins EU backing for first meningitis B vaccine

ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis clinched European approval for the first vaccine against meningitis B, and will seek to sell the drug as soon as possible.

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/healthNews/~3/jxbFpB1eM4s/us-novartis-europe-meningitis-idUSBRE90L07D20130122

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Time for transition? We can help.

Kitty O'Hare, MD

By Kitty O?Hare, MD, coordinator of Transition Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Martha Eliot Health Center.
The field of pediatric medicine has come a long way in the past few decades. Kids with health conditions like sickle cell disease, heart conditions, even cancer are living, full, healthy lives into adulthood.
It’s a great accomplishment, but with increased survival rates come unique challenges. In addition to treating their chronically ill patients, today’s pediatricians need to prepare them for adult life, where they will be responsible for managing their own health. But according to a recent national survey, we doctors aren’t as good at helping our patients transition into adulthood as we could be: less than half of all ...

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What is the temperature range that blood samples need to be kept at?

Unfortunately, we cannot answer this question. We searched the NLH Library, the Lab Tests Online, and the National Association of Phlebotomists websites but found no useful information to answer this question. (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)

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Blacks Less Likely to Stick to High Blood Pressure Diet: Study

Title: Blacks Less Likely to Stick to High Blood Pressure Diet: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 9/19/2012 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/19/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=163093&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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Clinical Pathology Laboratories Use Lean to Design ?Ideal? Blood Draw Sites and Workflow

Goal is for medical laboratories to enhance patient?s phlebotomy experience // DATELINE: San Antonio, Texas?Here in the Alamo City this week, many of the nation?s most innovative clinical laboratories, pathology groups, and in vitro diagnostics manufacturers came together to share their successes in the use of Lean, Six Sigma, and similar process improvement techniques. The [...] (Source: Dark Daily)

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Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) Approved For Infants Younger Than 12 Months, FDA

Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) has been approved for children as young as two weeks with flu symptoms, the FDA has announced. Before today, Tamiflu was only approved for patients aged one year or more. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) stressed that oseltamivir is not approved as a preventive medication for infants; it has not been approved for the prevention of flu among babies aged less than one year. Tamiflu's safety and efficacy for the treatment of flu for patients younger than two weeks old has not been established... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Who got what? GAO breaks down Medicaid MU incentive payments

A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows the median Medicaid EHR incentive payment received by hospitals in 2011 was $613,512.
The amount of Medicaid EHR incentive payments awarded to each hospital ranged from $7,528 to $7.2 million, the Dec. 13 GAO report found.
read more (Source: Healthcare IT News)

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Elevated BP May Prematurely Age the Brain

Title: Elevated BP May Prematurely Age the Brain
Category: Health News
Created: 11/2/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/2/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=164663&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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Short Bursts of Intense Exercise Can Fight Weight Gain: Study

Title: Short Bursts of Intense Exercise Can Fight Weight Gain: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 10/25/2012 8:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 10/26/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=164372&k=Diet_and_Weight_Management_General

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Medicare?s Chief Actuary, Richard Foster, Retiring

Richard S. Foster, a civil servant known for his independence, has been a voice on Medicare, Medicaid and the new health care law. (Source: NYT Health)

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Report: 1 in 5 Adults Had Mental Illness in 2010

Title: Report: 1 in 5 Adults Had Mental Illness in 2010
Category: Health News
Created: 1/19/2012 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/19/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153738

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Gallup: Most happy with health insurance

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults rated their healthcare coverage as good or excellent, down from 72 percent last year, a survey indicates. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)

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Genes May Guide Intelligence Throughout Life

Title: Genes May Guide Intelligence Throughout Life
Category: Health News
Created: 1/18/2012 4:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/19/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153726

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As Nations Develop, So May Bowel Disease

Title: As Nations Develop, So May Bowel Disease
Category: Health News
Created: 1/6/2012 6:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/9/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153378

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Climate Tied to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Risk

Title: Climate Tied to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 1/12/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/12/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153548

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Improving Adherence Among Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

See Related Article p. 28. (Source: Journal of Adolescent Health)

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New Blood Thinner Linked To Higher Heart Attack Risk

Title: New Blood Thinner Linked To Higher Heart Attack Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 1/9/2012 8:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/10/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153437

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Health Tip: Do Your Feet Have Poor Circulation?

Title: Health Tip: Do Your Feet Have Poor Circulation?
Category: Health News
Created: 9/17/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=163003&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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56% of female university students get drunk in record time, Spanish study suggests

Researchers have studied university students' lifestyles; their analysis, which includes alcohol and illegal drug consumption habits, sport and food, concludes that most students indulge in unhealthy behavior. One of the main results of the study points to the high consumption of alcohol.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/fitness/~3/JCkJkf4_4pY/121228084029.htm

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Health Tip: Keep Pollen Under Control

Title: Health Tip: Keep Pollen Under Control
Category: Health News
Created: 11/2/2012 8:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/2/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=164653&k=Allergies_General

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Sesame and Rice Bran Oil, Yogurt Help Blood Pressure

Title: Sesame and Rice Bran Oil, Yogurt Help Blood Pressure
Category: Health News
Created: 9/20/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/20/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=163147&k=High_Blood_Pressure_General

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Who got what? GAO breaks down Medicaid MU incentive payments

A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows the median Medicaid EHR incentive payment received by hospitals in 2011 was $613,512.
The amount of Medicaid EHR incentive payments awarded to each hospital ranged from $7,528 to $7.2 million, the Dec. 13 GAO report found.
read more (Source: Healthcare IT News)

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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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Targeted micro-bubbles detect artery inflammation: Procedure done in pigs could potentially detect heart disease early in humans

Researchers have found that targeted micro-bubbles can help detect heart disease before it progresses too far as well as identify patients who are at risk for strokes.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/fitness/~3/zrd3E5_7ch0/121212134215.htm

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Donors urged to give blood across the UK

People across the UK are being urged to give blood as the NHS believes the country's stock will be hit by major events such as the Olympics and the diamond jubilee. Officials at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) are predicting a "perfect storm" on the demand for blood with the increased amount of events happening over the summer

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Steroid injection linked with significant bone loss in postmenopausal women treated for back pain

Postmenopausal women suffered significant bone density loss in their hip after they were treated with an epidural steroid injection for back pain relief, according to a new study. Bone density loss after six months was six times greater when compared to the typical bone density loss seen in a year in a postmenopausal woman who doesn't receive steroid injection, researchers say.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/fitness/~3/cBpFEub1WJQ/121201085911.htm

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Anti-Estrogen Treatment Shrank Lung Tumors in Mice

Title: Anti-Estrogen Treatment Shrank Lung Tumors in Mice
Category: Health News
Created: 1/9/2012 6:06:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 1/10/2012 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=153427

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Advances Made Toward Alzheimer's Blood Test

Title: Advances Made Toward Alzheimer's Blood Test
Category: Health News
Created: 1/7/2011 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/7/2011 12:00:00 AM

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&k=WeeklyHealth&a=124434

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Daily steps add up for midlife women's health

Moving 6,000 or more steps a day -- no matter how -- adds up to a healthier life for midlife women. That level of physical activity decreases the risk of diabetes and metabolic syndrome (a diabetes precursor and a risk for cardiovascular disease), showed a new study.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/fitness/~3/o5zSra5ZeBg/121121130821.htm

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Meaningful use drives physician EHR boom

“When the medical practice of Howard Axe, MD, found itself in need of a new electronic prescribing system two years ago, implementing a full electronic health record system with an e-prescribing component was never seriously considered.
But a year and a half later, the 20-physician internal medicine and pediatrics practice in Arlington Heights, Ill., found itself [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)

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CNN Explains: Asperger's syndrome

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. (Source: CNN.com - Health)

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Why are kids in asthma hotspots in NYC more likely to visit the ER? Exercise may be a factor

Asthmatic children living in asthma hotspots in New York City were twice as likely to have experienced symptoms after exercise and more likely to have visited their doctor in a hurry or an ER because of breathing problems.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/fitness/~3/kDc7tQ0x6Cw/121217091558.htm

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The Well Column: Laws of Physics Can't Trump the Bonds of Love

Jeffrey Wright uses wacky experiments to teach children about the universe, but it is his own personal story that teaches them the true meaning of life. (Source: NYT Health)

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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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Peter Walker | Which really is more deadly: cycling or sitting down watching TV?

New scientific guidance about the 'invisible danger' of inactivity puts cycle safety in perspective

Sometimes, it seems, to get some perspective on the vexed issue of cycling and particularly cycle safety you need to chat not to a transport expert, let alone a government official, but a scientist.

This occurred to me earlier this week as I watched three fairly eminent scientists with a specialism in public health unveil new recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Our news story on it is here, but in essence it calls for walking and cycling to become the norm for short trips as a way to combat the increasingly desperate extent of health problems connected to inactivity and obesity.

After they'd introduced the report the floor was open for questions. One of the first was on cycle safety: had they taken into account the potential perils of riding a bike?

The answer from Dr Harry Rutter, lead author of the report and an adviser at the National Obesity Observatory ? they gather data on obesity, as opposed to peering at the big-boned from a very great distance ? is worth quoting in full:

All activities carry a risk. For some reason there seems to be strong focus on the risk of injury associated with cycling. Clearly, when deaths do takes place that's tragic, and we need to do all we can to avoid them. But I think there is a perception that cycling is much more dangerous than it really is.

This focus on the dangers of cycling is something to do with the visibility of them, and the attention it's given. What we don't notice is that if you were to spend an hour a day riding a bike rather than being sedentary and driving a car there's a cost to that sedentary time. It's silent, it doesn't get noticed. What we're talking about here is shifting the balance from that invisible danger of sitting still towards the positive health benefits of cycling.

It's something most cyclists know about but it's worth reiterating. Plus, I like the notion of an "invisible danger". People go on at exhaustive length about the perils of cycling because cycling remains niche. Sitting around on one's arse watching EastEnders and eating Pringles is, however, a national pursuit, and not enough people make the connection between that and an impact on health which is, the scientists told us, now on a par with that from smoking.

In the collection of quotes assembled for the press pack there was a good one on this point from Philip Insall, head of health for the active transport charity Sustrans:

If a virus was this deadly it would fill the front pages and dominate debate in parliament.

The second point that caught my attention came in response to a slightly carping question from me. Such advice, I asked, is all very well but will it really change much in the absence of concerted government action over safe walking and cycling routes?

Professor Mike Kelly of Nice sighed very slightly and presented me with a parallel: efforts to curb smoking. It took a full 60 years after the proof of cigarettes' harm to reach the relative nirvana of a ban on smoking in public places. View the report, he said, not as an end in itself but as "one further accumulation of the evidence", part of a long-term process, albeit one he hopes will take less than 60 years.

Good advice, particularly for a semi-professional cycle policy malcontent such as me.

Perhaps the best point, however, came again from Rutter as he was asked what more could be done to promote active travel. He replied:

There are two interventions that we know increase walking and cycling: living in the Netherlands and living in Denmark.

Behind the half absurd statement lies this central truth: there's no magic behind getting people on their feet or on their bikes, it just takes sufficient political will. If the Dutch and Danish did so in the 1960s and 70s, so can we now.

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Peter Walker

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/nov/28/deadly-cycling-sitting-watching-tv

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Category: Medications
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Reminding Surgical Staff Of Phlebotomy Costs Appears To Affect Utilization

Surgical house staff and attending physicians who are reminded about the charges for ordering daily blood drawing for routine blood work appear to reduce the amount of routine blood tests ordered and the charges for these laboratory tests, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "The use of laboratory tests has been rapidly increasing over the past few decades to the point where phlebotomy is a substantial proportion of hospital expenditure, and much of it is unwarranted," state the authors... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Youths With STDs May Not Admit They Had Sex

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Celebrating Partners in Excellence

When a patient arrived at BWH for a routine appointment and received unexpected news, phlebotomist Telisha Morris noticed the patient looked upset. She asked if everything was all right, and the patient began crying. (Source: BWH News)

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Ditch the car to walk or cycle short journeys 'for healthier Britain'

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says 'invisible burden' of inactivity and obesity as harmful as smoking

Walking and cycling should become the norm for short journeys rather than driving a car, the government's health advisory body has recommended in an attempt to tackle a national epidemic of inactivity and obesity which now causes as much harm as smoking.

In strongly-worded advice, which places significant pressure on the government to increase the extent of safe walking and cycling routes, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) urges local authorities, health bodies, workplaces and schools to do all they can to assist people in active travel.

The report notes that almost two-thirds of men and nearly three-quarters of women in England are not sufficiently active to maintain their health, with the results little better for children.

This amounts to a significant public health problem to which increased walking and cycling is a key solution, said Dr Harry Rutter, an adviser to the Department of Health-funded National Obesity Observatory, who led the Nice study.

"Only a minority of people in England get enough physical activity to improve their health," he said. "This creates a huge and often invisible burden of illness and reduced quality of life, but most people seem to be unaware of the scale of that burden. Across the population, lack of physical activity causes roughly the same level of ill-health as smoking does.

"We all face barriers in changing our lifestyles and many of us feel we don't have the time or the inclination to add regular physical activity into our lives. But walking and cycling ? to work, to school, to the shops or elsewhere ? can make a huge difference. It's an opportunity to make these activities part of normal, routine daily behaviour."

The 126-page report lays down recommendations for many public and private institutions, which have no statutory force but carry some influence given Nice's position. They also coincide with the advent next April of the NHS's health and wellbeing boards, where local health chiefs will collaborate to improve community health.

It urges local authorities to devise a coherent, long-term plan for boosting active travel to be at the centre of every policy, avoiding the piecemeal efforts exemplified by the cursory and suddenly-vanishing bike lanes familiar to most UK cyclists. Schools are being advised to provide secure bike parking and introduce "walking buses" where pupils walk to and from school in a supervised group, with employers similarly guided on helping staff ditch their cars.

The report's authors say they are aware of the ambition of their plan, with the average Briton now walking or cycling 80 miles a year less now than they did a decade ago and the percentage of journeys made by bike remaining at about 2%, against 26% for the Netherlands and 19% in Denmark. They liken the efforts to the 50 year-plus battle to curb smoking rates.

Rutter cautioned against the recent public focus on the dangers of cycling, particularly after Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins and the GB cycling coach, Shane Sutton, were knocked off their bikes on consecutive days this month.

"All activities carry a risk," he said. "For some reason there seems to be strong focus on the risk of injury associated with cycling. Clearly, when deaths to takes place that's tragic, and we need to do all we can to avoid them. But I think there is a perception that cycling is much more dangerous than it really is.

"What we don't notice is that if you were to spend an hour a day riding a bike rather than being sedentary and driving a car there's a cost to that sedentary time. It's silent, it doesn't get noticed. What we're talking about here is shifting the balance from that invisible danger of sitting still towards the positive health benefits of cycling."

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How Touching Saves Lives

When I was a fourth-year medical student, I once did a month-long rotation in the ER. One night a woman came in who we decided needed some lab work. When I let her know we needed to draw her blood, she began to tremble visibly. "I'm scared of needles," she whispered to me.She squeezed her eyes shut as the phlebotomist set up next to her gurney to draw her blood. "It'll be over before you know it," I tried to encourage her. She didn't even acknowledge I'd spoken.The phlebotomist glanced at me once, concerned probably more that the patient was going to jump or prove to be a hard stick, and then said to her, "You're going to feel a little poke."The patient tensed, tears appearing at the corners of her closed eyes. Not knowing what else to do, I reached out and took her hand, feeling awkward a...

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