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Optical illusion dampens arthritis pain
Seeing the movements of a healthy hand mirroring one's own movements plays a welcome trick on the brains of arthritis sufferers, a new study shows: It reduces the perception of pain. The observation, reported this week at the Society for Neuroscience's...Tags: Hands, Human Body, Rheumatoid Arthritis, University of California, San Diego, Health
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Emergency preparation for dialysis patients
Dialysis is a lifesaving treatment for those with kidney disorders. But during emergencies, particularly bad weather, sometimes patients don't want to go — or can't get to — their usual dialysis center. There are some steps patients can take...Tags: Vaccines, Dialysis, Heart Attack, Potassium (dietary supplement), Healthy Diet
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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Menstruation, Pharmaceuticals, Hormones and Metabolism, Birth Control
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Why we're fat, Part 2: Heredity plays role in how easily we gain — and lose — weight
For the many Americans genetically programmed to add pounds, the effort to lose weight can seem doomed from the get-go. Mix in other factors no one can change — age, race, birth order — and the struggle becomes even tougher.
Though innate...Tags: Weight, Hormones and Metabolism, Physiology, Human Body, Genes and Chromosomes
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Why we're fat, Part 4: Outside forces affect what we eat, how much exercise we get
Beyond what we eat, what we're born with and what we do, our environment contributes in major — and mostly unnoticed — ways to our health and our weight.
All have conspired to make two-thirds of adult Americans and one-third of American...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Government, Politics, University of Utah, Weight
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Why we're fat, Part 3: Our lifestyle promotes added pounds
Despite popular belief, a surge of laziness and gluttony is not what's making Americans fat, says science writer and fat researcher Gary Taubes, author of "Why We Get Fat."
In looking at the past 30 years, during which time obesity rates have soared,...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Colleges and Universities, Travel, Pharmaceuticals, Weight
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Why we're fat, Part 1: Simple question with many complex answers
What's making Americans so fat?
Many think the answer is that we eat too much and don't exercise enough, but the reasons are more numerous and complex, say obesity researchers. And so are the solutions.
In the early 1970s, 14 percent of the adult...Tags: Nutrition, Hormones and Metabolism, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Physiology
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Music keeps minds active and memories alive
My name is Bob, and I know what it's like to be flat on your back for more than two months.
My first encounter was for a form of arthritis called Reiter's syndrome — a three-month stay in a Veterans Affairs hospital marked by boredom and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music, Bette Davis, Music, Health
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Broken ankle fractures life as you know it
Forgive my absence from these pages, but I recently suffered a dislocated fracture of my ankle while saving a kitten from a speeding car.
The bad news is, it required reconstructive surgery and I have to spend the next six weeks on my butt. The good news...Tags: Human Interest, Health and Medical Professionals, Pharmaceuticals, William Hurt, Human Body
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Do your pushups, Mr. President
As the longtime personal trainer for President Barack Obama and the first family, Cornell McClellan deserves some props for Michelle's famously toned arms. But in addition to working out White House staff and professional athletes, the nation's "first...Tags: Running, Politics, Julie Deardorff, Barack Obama, Health
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2 Baltimore churches challenge each other in health throwdown
It all started with a little bit of good-natured trash talk between the pastors of two of Baltimore's most prominent African-American churches.
The Rev. Jamal Bryant of Empowerment Temple "fell off the wagon" and confesses he wasn't exercising as much as...Tags: Religion and Belief, Diseases and Illnesses, Weight, Diabetes, Heart Disease
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Alternative therapies for PTSD
When you think of soldiers, you probably don't picture a group of men doing yoga. But it's one of the interventions for veterans with PTSD.
The Veterans Administration is trying alternative therapies like yoga and acupunture to help patients rely less...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Yoga, Behavioral Conditions, Health
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