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High-Intensity Workouts May Help Ease Arthritis
TRONDHEIM, Norway (UPI) – “Hard” physical training twice a week can help arthritis patients experience less pain and inflammation, as well as a small drop in BMI, according to a new study. Arthritis...
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Suicide Risk Tied to Women’s Social Connectedness
(AP Photo) (Reuters Health) – Being connected to friends, family and social groups may offer some protection against suicide, suggests a new U.S. study. Among more than 70,000 women followed for almost...
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Sex Trafficking: Lifelong Struggle of Exploited Children
(BBC) – In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It is a world few Americans are aware of. But tens of...
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Black Men are Twice as Likely to Die of Prostate Cancer as White Men
Andy Dang, a lab assistant at Genomic Health, labels cancer tissue sample transfer tubes for an RNA extraction process. The company’s new genetic test to gauge the aggressiveness of prostate cancer may...
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(The Washington Post) – In the 1990s, physiologist Dr. V. Reggie Edgerton met Christopher Reeve at a science convention. It was a few years after the actor best known for playing Superman had been...
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UN Ebola Mission Winds Down, WHO Takes Reins in West Africa
In this Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015 file photo, China’s Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, addresses her statement during the special session on Ebola of the Executive...
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Brilinta? Brintellix? FDA Warns of Drug Name Mix-Ups
MARLEY JAY, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that some doctors and pharmacies are getting confused by the similar names of an antidepressant and a...
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The Planned Parenthood Hoax is the GOP’s Trojan Horse: How Republicans are...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. James Lankford,...
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Medical Experts, Health Officials Pushing For Depression Screening for All...
(Ben Curtis/AP Photo) Jeff Riley, THE DAILY TIMES GAZETTE (Daily Times Gazette) — With the combined efforts of health officials in the United States and US Preventive Services Task Force (USPFTS),...
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Study Outlines Challenges for Black Males in Medicine
(Ilmicrofono Oggiono/Flickr/CC By 2.0) Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS DETROIT (The Detroit Free Press) — The number of African-American males applying to medical school has steadily...
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New Therapy May Reverse Cell Damage from Kidney Fibrosis
As cells revert to embryonic forms as an attempt at self-protection, kidney cells turn blue as fibrosis spreads through the organ, causing eventual failure. (Photo by vetpathologist/Shutterstock)...
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As Obamacare Takes Hold, Unpaid Hospital Bills Vanish
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act hold up signs as the opinion for health care is reported outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday June 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (Forbes) –...
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Your Kid’s Picky Eating May Not Be So Harmless After All
In this Thursday, June 26, 2014 file photo, a customer douses her french fries with ketchup at the concession stand before the start of the movies at the Saco Drive-In in Saco, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert...
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Women, Blacks Lose More Years of Life After Heart Attack
(iStock photo) (Reuters Health) – Heart attacks seem to have a bigger effect on life expectancy for women and African Americans than for white men, a new study shows. Women and men live equally long...
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5 Relationship Secrets From Couples Who’ve Been Together For 40+ Years
(Yahoo!) – Cliché sayings about how to get and stay married abound: Opposites attract, don’t go to bed angry, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Many have been repeated so...
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African-American Women in Charge Speak About Natural Hair
Ayana Hardin creates natural hair twists. (Erin Mizelle/Winston-Salem Chronicle) By Felecia Piggott-Long, Ph. D. Special to the NNPA from The Winston-Salem Chronicle Today, it is not surprising to see...
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Fitness Fundamentals Still Challenge Americans, Poll Finds
(Reuters) – Despite an explosion of fitness advice from TV shows, blogs, books and online experts, a basic knowledge of health and exercise still eludes most Americans, according to a poll. It showed...
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Keep Pedalling at Work to Stay Healthy
(AP Photo/Alex Cossio, File) (India Today) – Forget treadmill work stations, a portable pedalling device under the desk can provide a convenient way to keep sedentary workers active at work, and...
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Unsanitary Hospitals Shockingly Common
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (BABW News) – According to Fierce Health Care, a recent review of the sanitation procedures used in hospitals revealed that the practices have huge, unsafe gaps. Jennifer...
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Hidden Symptoms That Could Signal Major Health Problems
(CBS News) – Minor ailments you might be tempted to ignore could be early signs of a serious illness. That’s the message of a recent Reader’s Digest article, “Silent Signs that Your Body is in Big...
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