On the surface Santa Claus may seem an overweight workaholic with an affinity for sweets, but a U.S. geriatrician says Santa may be healthier than he appears. "Because Santa is probably more than 550 years old, a lot of people would say ...
Potentially harmful bacteria was found on 97 percent of chicken breasts bought at stores across the United States and tested, according to a new study. And about half of the chicken samples had at least one type of bacteria that was ...
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Americans' love of salt has continued unabated in the 21st century, putting people at risk for high blood pressure, the leading cause of heart attack and stroke, U.S. health officials said Thursday. In 2010, more than 90 percent of U.S. ...
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Less than half of adults who are losing their vision to diabetes have been told by a doctor that diabetes could damage their eyesight, a new study found. Vision loss is a common complication of diabetes, and is caused by damage that the ...
The effect that AIDS is having on American kids has improved greatly in recent years, thanks to effective drugs and prevention methods. The same cannot be said, however, for children worldwide. "Maternal-to-child transmission is down ...
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U.S. health officials would like every American aged 6 months and older to get a flu vaccine, and on Thursday they produced statistics they think should convince everyone to get vaccinated. "In the 2012-2013 flu season, vaccinations ...
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As the safe food project of The Pew Charitable Trusts released its report on weaknesses in Salmonella regulation on Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered an update on the ongoing outbreak of ...
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Throughout history, people have tried to come up with a way to keep perishable foods fresh. Until the early 19th century, the only options were pickling, salting, drying or smoking these provisions. Although these methods preserved ...
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Health R&D Spending Moves Slowly Upward, Driven by Industry, Philanthropy and Voluntary Health Associations Federal R&D Funding Remains "Woefully Inadequate" to Address Health Threats and Global Competitiveness ?Highlights: ?Overall ...
After declining in FY10-11,health-related research and development(R&D)spending in the U.S.increased by$4.3 billion(3.5%)in FY11-12,according to Truth and Consequences:Health R&D Spending in the U.S.(FY11-12),the 10th edition from ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Teens Opting for Real Pot While U.S. teens are staying away from synthetic marijuana, they're smoking more of the natural version, a new survey of more than 40,000 ...
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Fifteen years after the $246 billion tobacco legal settlements were reached most states are not spending much on tobacco cessation, U.S. researchers say. Tobacco use is the top cause of preventable U.S. death, killing more than 400,000 ...
In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
The first human case of H10N8 was confirmed by Health authorities in Jiangxi on Wednesday, a new strain of bird flu to infect piople, in the world. A 73-year-old woman, who died of respiratory failure on Dec 6, was later confirmed to have ...
The nutritional value of food and drinks advertised on children's television programs is worse than food shown in ads during general air time, according to University of Illinois at Chicago researchers. The study is published in the ...