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Relationships help you live longer, enjoy life more
Q: Is it true that having good relationships increases your chance of living longer? A: Since the late 1980s, studies have suggested that this is true. People who enjoy close relationships with family and friends are more likely to live longer than...Tags: Brigham Young University , Physical Fitness and Exercise, Boston
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Dodge skin irritation from problem plants
You probably learned about the risks of poison ivy a long time ago, but as you spend more time in the garden this spring, be aware that many other plants can cause a rash. Learn which plants are the common offenders and how to take precautions against...Tags: Hydrocortisone, Dermatologists, Folklore and Mythology, Steroids, Drugs and Medicines
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Five questions with ... Chad Barnhill
Moving to Maryland has been a learning experience for Chad Barnhill, general manager of the Horseshoe Baltimore Casino that will fill the sweeping vacant lot currently greeting drivers coming into the city on Russell Street. At home within the walls...
Tags: Butterfly Ballots, Politics, Fort McHenry, Sports, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Should you switch when acid blockers seem so similar?
Q: I've been taking over-the-counter Prilosec for acid reflux. I saw an advertisement for Zegerid claiming it had an extra additive. However, the main ingredient, omeprazole, seems to be the same? Should I switch? A: You are correct. The ingredients...Tags: Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, Boston, Drugs and Medicines, Prilosec (drug)
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Genomes provide clues for treating leukemia, endometrial cancers
Efforts to sequence the human genome have revealed genetic risk for disease, and taught us about our early ancestors. Now, efforts to sequence the genomes of cancer cells -- to pinpoint the changes that occur in cancer cells' DNA when a person has the...
Tags: St. Louis, Education, Breast Cancer, Chemical Industry, Colleges and Universities
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Navigating kids' unequal abilities
When Fran Pitre's twin daughters were 12 years old, they tried out for the softball team, confident they would both make it. Unfortunately, one girl made the team — and the other was named the statistician. Pitre, a mother of three sets of twins...Tags: McGraw-Hill Incorporated, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Some mothers can't breast-feed
After struggling to breast-feed her first two children, Nyssa Retter was determined to do better with her third. She gave birth without painkillers, which may make newborns slightly drowsy. She chose a free-standing birth center staffed with lactation-...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Breast Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, Medical Specialization
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Let patients light up to ease pain, improve quality of life
Twenty years ago, my dad suffered from esophageal cancer and emphysema. The nausea from his treatment was severe and the list of medications prescribed for it ineffective. And so, out of desperation, one day he tried marijuana. And it provided him...
Tags: Politics, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Lobbying, Heroin
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In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath
Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Internists, Hospitals and Clinics, Religion and Belief, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Yoga might help boost mental health
As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you're not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you're also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Yoga...
Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Pharmaceuticals, Mental Health, Health, Chemical Industry
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Saving precious memories: Experts talk brain breakthroughs [Live]
Got burning questions about how memories are made and stored in the brain? You are in luck: Two prominent neuroscientists are taking questions from the public about memory and the brain on Google Chat today and you can watch it live, here. The hangout...Tags: Google Inc., Medical Research, Alzheimer's Disease, University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology
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Food as medicine? What to make of the claims.
What's a healthful food and what's a healing food? Is there a difference? At least since the mid-19th century, when the Battle Creek Sanitarium opened its doors and people flocked there to follow John Harvey Kellogg's regime of whole grains, nuts and...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Coconut, Whole Foods Market, Philosophy, Spirulina (dietary supplement)
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