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BPA Has a Safety Tick
Feb 2, 2015In America, the FDA’s current position is that BPA is safe at the current levels occurring in foods. In 2014, FDA experts from across the agency, specialising in toxicology, analytical chemistry, endocrinology, epidemiology, and other ...
Tags: toxicology, analytical chemistry, endocrinology, Agriculture
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Researchers Are Creating a Wiring Diagram of The Complex Brain Circuits
Feb 25, 2014Researchers are creating a wiring diagram of the complex brain circuits that regulate this intense motivational state While the function of eating is to nourish the body, this is not what actually compels us to seek out food. Instead, it ...
Tags: Drives Appetite, motivational state, BIDMC, AgRP
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Childhood Obesity Rates Have Nearly Tripled in The Previous 30 Years
Feb 14, 2014Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact the future health of these obese children and public health in general. A University of ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Childhood obesity
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Eating a Diet Rich in Tomatoes May Protect Against Breast Cancer
Feb 7, 2014January 28, 2014 Sophie Langley Eating a diet rich in tomatoes may protect against breast cancer A tomato-rich diet may help protect at-risk postmenopausal women from breast cancer, according to research from Ohio State University. ...
Tags: tomatoes, Electra Paskett, breast cancer, Adana Llanos
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Could Your Warm and Cozy Home Be Hindering Your Weight-loss Efforts
Jan 23, 2014WEDNESDAY Jan. 22, 2014, 2014 -- Could your warm and cozy home be hindering your weight-loss efforts Dutch researchers say keeping temperatures a little chillier at home and the office might be an additional weapon in the fight against ...
Tags: NST, cool side, Mitchell Lazar, Lose Weight
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Each Week, KHN Compiles a Selection of Recently Released Health Policy Studies and Briefs
Jan 20, 2014Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
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Two Cedars-Sinai Physician-Researchers Have Been Awarded Grants Totaling $4 Million
Jan 20, 2014Two Cedars-Sinai physician-researchers have been awarded grants totaling $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how the environment - both in the womb and in the hospital where the baby is born - can affect the newborn ...
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Minority and Poor Patients Are More Likely to Have Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Jan 14, 2014Minority and poor patients are more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they're diagnosed than white and richer patients do, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 26,000 patients in California who were diagnosed ...
Tags: Advanced Thyroid Cancer, Minorities, Poor
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BPA Has Been Used Since The 1960s to Make a Number of Consumer Goods
Jan 9, 2014Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to harden plastics, has been used since the 1960s to make a number of consumer goods such as bottles and cans. In the past several years, potential health risks associated with the chemical have come to ...
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Mouse Study Suggests That Exposure to Plastics BPA Puts Males at Risk for Prostate Cancer
Jan 8, 2014A study with mice suggests that exposure in the womb to the plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) could put males at greater risk for prostate cancer later in life. The findings are early, however, and can't prove a causal link between BPA ...
Tags: Cancer Risk, Plastics Chemical, BPA
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Health Sciences System Will Open The Doors to a New Mile Square Health Center Jan. 6
Jan 6, 2014The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System will open the doors to a new Mile Square Health Center Jan. 6. The five-story, 122,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility is the first federally qualified health center in ...
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A Type of Diabetes Drug Lowers Cancer Risk in Women,While Another Type Increases Risk
Dec 27, 2013A certain type of diabetes drug may lower cancer risk in women with type 2 diabetes by up to one-third, while another type may increase the risk, according to a new study. Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed data from more than 25,600 ...
Tags: diabetes drug, lower cancer risk, women with type 2 diabetes
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Low Levels of The "Sunshine Vitamin" Are More Likely a Consequence of Illness
Dec 27, 2013Low levels of vitamin D have been implicated as a potential cause of diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes. Now an extensive review suggests it's really the other way around: Low levels of the "sunshine vitamin" are more likely a ...
Tags: vitamin D, cancer, diabetes, low levels of vitamin D
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Groundwater and Surface Water Samples Taken Near Fracking Operations Contained Chemicals
Dec 26, 2013Groundwater and surface water samples taken near fracking operations in Colorado contained chemicals that can disrupt male and female hormones, researchers say. These chemicals, which are used in the fracking process, also were present in ...
Tags: groundwater, surface water, fracking operations, hormones, health
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Black Women Will Lose Less Weight Even If They Follow Exact Same Exercise and Diet Regimen
Dec 25, 2013Black women will lose less weight than white women even if they follow the exact same exercise and diet regimen, researchers report. The reason behind this finding is that black women's metabolisms run more slowly, which decreases their ...
Tags: black women, lose weight, diet regimen