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Sipping Away Cancer Risks
Drinking green tea has been associated with everything from longer life to improving memory. It’s healthy stuff that may keep our DNA strong. Green tea may be adding a new anti-cancer benefit to its resumé.
The Weight of Race on Cancer
Being underweight or way overweight can affect a person’s ability to beat breast cancer. The role weight plays in who wins and who loses against this cancer varies among women.
Depression Treatment Gives Heart Failure Patients a Boost
Depression can affect the health of heart failure patients, even impacting the quality of their lives. New research suggests managing depression may give patients a health boost and even improve their social lives.
Diabetes Drug Could Slow Speedy Addicts
In most cases, a drug is first created to treat one disease. Later down the road, however, researchers may find that the drug can be used for other purposes - which is the case now with a certain diabetes drug.
Stay Active, Keep the Brain Healthy?
As the brain ages, some mental skills may suffer. Staying physically active may be linked to keeping the brain healthy into old age.
Hospitals See Fewer Errors With Smarter Electronic Records
Patients with HIV are tasked with taking a complicated regimen of drugs on a daily basis. But you think that staff at a hospital could keep everything straight, right?  Given the complexity of HIV medications, hospitals have issues too.
FDA Warns Tennessee Company that Online Product Claims Violate Federal Law
The US Food and Drug Administration today issued a Warning Letter to The Avalon Effect Inc., a company based in Franklin, Tenn., for its marketing of a light therapy product that claims to cure or treat symptoms of fungal meningitis, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), concussions, Lyme disease, and other diseases.
Bows and Arrows as Teaching Tools?
What do Legolas , Robin Hood, and Katniss Everdeen have in common? They all use a bow and arrow. With recent movies, books and the London games focusing on archery, kids are following this fad in record numbers.
Low Vitamin D Linked to MS Flare-Ups
While multiple sclerosis (MS) has some hereditary causes, it has also been linked to environmental factors. Recent studies suggest a link between low vitamin D levels and an increased risk of relapse.
Kidney Disease Risks Open to All Ages
There are several ways to measure kidney function. A couple of these measures were thought to increase as people grew older. Now it looks like signs of poor kidney function are not just part of the aging process.
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