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Endurance sports such as ultra-marathons, ultra-triathlons and cycling marathons have exploded in popularity over the years. Among them is the grandaddy of the genre, the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, which began in 1974 and meanders through the Western States Trail in Northern ...
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sports
Fitness
Life with a child who has a pervasive developmental disorder such as autism or Asperger's syndrome is often a storm of tantrums, irritability, impulsive behavior and obstinacy — a challenge that has child psychiatrists casting about for ways to help the ...
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Autism
Pandemic H1N1 influenza activity declined slightly last week, with only 43 states reporting widespread activity, compared with 46 states the week before, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this morning.
Even though levels have declined, however, they are ...
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Swine Flu
Just in time for the pre-Thanksgiving shopping run comes a nutritional comparison of various meatless "turkeys." Fascinating stuff...
Take a look at this chart offered up by the American Dietetic Assn. The first thing that pops out is the sodium content. The word "wow" ...
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Nutrition
The new cervical cancer screening recommendations might worry some women accustomed to getting screened every year. They shouldn’t, most doctors say.
Today's story: Group recommends less frequent Pap tests
The women who should be worried, physicians point out, are those who remain ...
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Dr. Oz
So what's the H1N1 flu situation here in California, you might well ask, having safely gotten, or given up on getting, a vaccination? Or perhaps the immunization issue was rendered moot by those days of fever and chills and pathetic moaning, and now you're just looking for empathy.
Here's ...
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Swine Flu
Health
Individualize, individualize, individualize. That's one message from the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force report on mammograms that created such a ruckus this week. Though the recommendations have been painted by some as a blanket Ptth! to mammograms, the actual report was nuanced, and ...
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We health bloggers and reporters think about words a lot and care about using the right ones. So we were interested when we heard that a legislative proposal offered in the U.S. Senate recently would outlaw further use of the terms "mentally retarded" or "mental ...
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Term
Researchers at Stanford University have found that women with multiple sclerosis or epilepsy have only a slightly higher risk of abnormal fetal growth and C-section delivery compared with women without the conditions. Let's repeat, only a slightly higher risk. Nor do they appear to suffer a ...
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pregnant
Pregnancy
Patients with a rare eye disease could be the first to be treated with human embryonic stem cells .
Advanced Cell Technology Inc ., a Santa Monica-based biotech company with labs in Massachusetts, announced today that it has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval to test ...
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The Electric Company
There have been about 40 deaths worldwide among people who have recently been vaccinated against pandemic H1N1 influenza, but there is no evidence the deaths are related to the vaccine, officials from the World Health Organization said today. At least 65 million people have been vaccinated, ...
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Vaccine
Immunization
Swine Flu
The first U.S. trials of a spray-on anesthetic for the penis showed that it increased the time to ejaculation nearly five-fold, providing the first good solution for premature ejaculation, researchers reported today. The findings are very similar to those obtained in a European study released ...
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Sex
That poor old U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
They're asked to assess the science on mammograms, they duly do so and come out with advice that's unpopular — advice that suggests regular mammograms are not advisable for most women under 50 (not a new debate) and not advisable for ...
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The March of Dimes has just released its 2009 Premature Birth Report -- and California continues to do badly. Its premature birth rate is 10.9%, up from 10.7% in 2008. It gets a C.
The nation as a whole, which has a pre-term birth rate of 12.7%, got a D.
Prematurity is the No. 1 cause ...
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March of Dimes
The reaction to this week's U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation against regular mammograms for women under 50 was swift, emotional and highly public. Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius weighed in, pointing out that, well, the task force is ...
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healthcare
Health
Midnight shift workers often find it hard to get enough quality sleep on a consistent basis. Police officers are not exempt, often working late shifts and overtime as part of their job.
A new study finds that their schedule may cause cops to develop metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms ...
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Health
Starbucks
childhood obesity
News that former KISS drummer Peter Criss, he of the Catman persona, suffered breast cancer has provoked new interest in the subject of male breast cancer, a rare but potentially fatal tumor.
Men have only a small amount of breast tissue concentrated in the area immediately ...
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breast cancer
For the first time this academic year, college campuses have reported a significant drop in cases of influenza-like illness, generally assumed to be pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the American College Health Assn. Unfortunately, the association also recorded the first two deaths from ...
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Swine Flu
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Scientists are hard at work developing a cure for the genetic disorder Down syndrome . But even if they succeed, nearly 60% of parents whose children have Down syndrome might take a pass.
In a survey conducted by researchers from the psychiatry department at the University of British ...
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Down Syndrome
One of the biggest disappointments in AIDS research was the failure of Merck & Co.'s STEP trial of an experimental AIDS vaccine, which was terminated prematurely in 2007 when it became apparent that the vaccine seemed to increase the number of people who contracted HIV. Now, British ...
