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Health Headlines - November 29
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. Study Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study. "The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public healt ...
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November is Eyecare Month
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Jennifer Nordin
did you know? According to the Vision Council of America, numerous prescription and non-prescription medications may alter the quantity or quality of vision and even pose a threat to future eye health? These medications include: Cardiac drugsOral contraceptivesAnti-histaminesAntibioticsWith regular eye exams, an optometrist can detect problems ear ...
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A special treat
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ANNGREGORY74
A few weeks ago, my friend Heather called me with a question. We've been friends for 24 years, ever since she was seated at my table in home room. I haven't seen her in 15 years, but she always manages to make sure we stay in touch. She wanted to know if we could meet when she, her husband Jeremy, and their two little ones passed through Baton Roug ...
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AstraZeneca Moves Drug Production to China Leaving the UK
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Medical Quack
Not too long ago I posted about Astra Zeneca dismissing all their pharmaceutical representatives in the US. In as mentioned in the article here Pfizer and is also closing plants in the US. At some point in time I wonder if we will have a need for manufacturing if they will have any manufacturing left in the United States were the United Kingdom. ...
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Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk
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Robert W.
Weekly Health Update: Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk "A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers..." By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Updated: 11/29/2009The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendati ...
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Chronically Depressed? You Need Drugs.
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alisonrising
Inspired by a comment from Jaleesa onA Point of Light on the Horizon According to almost every psychiatrist you talk to, the more depressive episodes you've had in your life, the more likely you will need long-term medication therapy for successful treatment. In our society, the default treatment for any chronic condition—whether mental-illne ...
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Study shows that Cold Laser Therapy helps Chronic Neck Pain Sufferers
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Nav J.
Chronic neck pain can affects one’s life at many levels. It can affect your ability to work, your ability to socialize, spend time with family- and it can be costly. At the neck pain support blog we have talked about numerous neck pain studies and treatments available for patients. Between 10 and 24 percent of people suffer from chronic neck ...
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Politics of health care reform distort reality
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Neurodoc ..
The October 29, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains four separate articles on health care issues which, if taken in their entirety, represent the absurdity to which the health care debates in the United States have gone. The first article-- the best of the four-- describes how much FDA information never reaches clinician ...
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Can Cataracts be reduced by N-acetyl-carnosine Eyedrops?
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Neil Kao
Some members of my family asked me about this. I knew they had cataracts and that in time they would probably have the cataracts removed. Here are my results:1) I checked PubMed, the National Library of Medicine. There were 32 citations, which is very very few, published studies, many by the same Russian researcher, Mark Babizhayev, Ph.D. He als ...
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