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Health Notes:Vaccine study demonstrates protection against norovirus illness
Health Notes blogger, Prue Salasky, is on vacation for two weeks. In her absence, Features Department Editor Karen Morgan is making occasional blog posts. This one is a news release from Baylor College of Medicine.
"An experimental norovirus vaccine...Tags: Chemical Industry, Calicivirus, Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines
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Long-discredited hCG diet makes a comeback
Among the hundreds of drastic and unproven weight loss plans, the controversial hCG diet may take the cake.
Discredited by researchers in the 1970s, the near-starvation diet restricts followers to 500 calories a day for six weeks. At the same time,...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Weight Loss, Hydrocortisone, Human Interest, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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hCG diet leaves some hungry for less
When Lynn Patterson resolved to lose weight early this year, she took a hormone normally associated with pregnancy, not dieting.
The 53-year-old Catonsville nurse went on the hCG diet, named for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that is produced...Tags: Physical Conditions, Chemical Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hamburgers, Weight Loss
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Attention hikers: a way to reduce altitude sickness is at hand
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Principal explains reason for the FCAT placebo
South Florida Schools | Sun Sentinel blogsThe scoring of this year's FCAT writing exam will take a couple of months, so there's plenty of time to speculate on whether Hagen Road Elementary's novel approach made a positive difference. As I reported in today's editions, the school west of Boynton... -
Troubled study at heart of therapy debate
With $30 million of taxpayer money, researchers set out to conduct one of the largest studies ever of an alternative medical treatment, a controversial therapy for coronary artery disease.
The project was marred with problems from beginning to end....Tags: Media Industry, National Institutes of Health, Human Interest, Criminals, Hospitals and Clinics
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The Healthy Skeptic: Promise of ChromaGen lenses for dyslexia a bit blurry
We rarely stop to think about it, but reading is an amazing accomplishment. It turns markings on a page or a screen into coherent thoughts. It's a complicated process: The eyes see a procession of letters, and the brain turns them into words.
The...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Science, Health and Medical Professionals, Dyslexia
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Cystic fibrosis drug ivacaftor offers patients new hope
All her life, Lindsay Shipp knew that she was dying. As a baby, she would cry after eating, and salt collected on her forehead. The diagnosis was cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease that, at the time, meant a life expectancy of 18 years.
The...Tags: University of Iowa, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Music, Genes and Chromosomes, Mamma Mia! (musical)
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Hansen: The power of eternity
You may not notice it right away. As you visit Dallas or Idaho or Corona, something slowly tightens in your stomach, or your throat thickens like a small spring allergy. Some describe it as claustrophobia; others say it's like a mild panic attack. You...Tags: Physical Conditions, Philosophy, Colorado, Health Treatments, Landforms
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Study looks at effects of testosterone loss
Henry Kelin, 73, is an active man who walks and plays golf regularly. But after he turned 65, he felt fatigued, less energetic and lost his sexual desire. His testosterone level tested low, so he questioned whether supplements would make a difference....Tags: Television, Hydrocortisone, Entertainment, Diseases and Illnesses, Testosterone
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Drinkers remain aware of mistakes but care less about them, study suggests
You may have known that 4 a.m. burrito was a bad idea, but after a few drinks, you just didn't care. So says a new study that might hit home with hung over people desperately trying to rationalize what they did the night before.
Scientists have known...Tags: Research
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