Archive for March, 2008
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What is a Yeast Infection ?
This video animation illustrates how bacteria coexists with a yeast fungus in the vagina and when conditions change it will increase or decrease the acidity causing the yeast fungi to multiply and cause irritation.
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Trial: Popular cholesterol drug fails to improve heart disease
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Trial: Vytorin failed to improve heart disease though it reduces key risk factors
Millions of Americans already take the drug or one of its components, Zetia
Yale University cardiologist: People need to return to statins, like Lipitor
Zetia, Vytorin have racked up $5 billion in sales despite limited proof of benefit
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Leading doctors urged […]
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America’s Healthiest Fast-Food Chains
Health magazine’s choices for the healthy places to eat when you’re on the goby Ross Weale
Frances Largeman-Roth discusses America’s healthiest fast-food chains on the Today show on March 25.
FRANCES LARGEMAN-ROTH
Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, is the senior food and nutrition editor at Health magazine, where she works on healthy recipes, food trends, weight-loss issues, and the latest […]
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The Hidden Costs of Your Doctor Visit
Are parking fees, co-pays, plus the half-day’s wages you lose sitting in my waiting room keeping you from getting the health care you need?by Dena Rifkin, MD
I was commiserating with a patient about the cost of parking at our medical center. Depending on the length of a visit, the ticket in the garage here can […]
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Heart Risk Can Be Predicted Without Lab Tests
(HealthDay News) — When it comes to predicting a person’s cardiovascular disease risk, cheap, simple and noninvasive methods can be as effective as lab tests, a new study finds.
The U.S. researchers noted these non-lab methods could be especially useful where lab testing is inconvenient or unavailable, such as in developing countries.
Worldwide, about 80 percent of […]
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Popular Colonoscopy Prep Solution May Pose Kidney Risks
(HealthDay News) — One of the most common bowel-cleansing preparations used by people who are about to have a colonoscopy can trigger both acute kidney failure and long-term renal damage in otherwise healthy patients.
New research suggests the risks of oral sodium phosphate solution and some oral sodium phosphate tablets are rare but real, particularly for […]
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Soy Isoflavones May Cut the Risk of Prostate Cancer by 60%
A new case-control study recruited 200 Japanese men with prostate cancer ranging from stage 1(1 man) to stage 4 (24 men). Their dietary intake of soy was evaluated and compared to that of cancer-free men. Intake of the Soy Isoflavones Genistein and Daidzein was significantly associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer.
When comparing the […]
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Drinking Wine Increases Your Risk For Breast Cancer by 50%
Women can be raising their risk of a cancerous breast condition without knowing it. British official at the Department of Health said that women who drink more than fourteen units of alcohol a week (a unit is 10 ml or approximately one ounce) raise their risk of developing breast cancer by 50 percent.A single glass […]
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Gaps Persist in Use of Less Invasive Breast Cancer Procedure
(HealthDay News) — The use of a less invasive form of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) during breast cancer surgery increased substantially in the United States from 1998 to 2005, researchers say. However, there are still disparities in terms of which women receive the therapy.
The study by the American Cancer Society found that non-white women, […]
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With Alzheimer’s, It Takes a Family
(HealthDay News) — Alzheimer’s care in the United States is a family affair, a new survey suggests.
Three in five so-called “sandwich” caregivers who look after a relative or friend with Alzheimer’s disease said their children help with care duties, ranging from attending doctors’ appointments to feeding and dressing their loved ones, according to the third […]