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Strokes and smiles are free

Feb. 21 | Are you at risk for a stroke? That answer depends on several factors. The most obvious factors include: obesity and smoking. However, there is another factor. This factor is how many fast food restaurants are in your neighborhood. The more fast food...

Foods that burn fat

Feb. 20 | Some would question the fact that there are foods that can actually aid in the burning of belly fat, but there have been foods that have proved to do so! Exercise along with eating the foods that burn the belly fat will increase the speed at which your...

Obesity In Children Being Targeted by New Initiative

Feb. 20 | The subject of childhood obesity is being tackled by a large group of insurance companies and health organizations who want to provide children better access to health care. Insurance companies that are willing to participate in this new initiative would...

I’ll have a Big Mac combo: Stroke size please

Feb. 20 | According to a study, living near restaurants that serve fast food increases your risk of having a stroke. The study found that people who live in areas that have more than thirty three fast food restaurants increased their risk of having a stroke by...

Clinic That Did 1st Face Transplant Will Treat Chimp Attack Victim

Feb. 20 | A fifty five year old woman named Charla Nash was recently mauled by a fourteen year old chimpanzee named Travis in Stamford. The chimpanzee was shot and killed after the mauling. Charla Nash received medical treatment at Stamford Hospital and was moved...

Study finds hope for peanut allergies

Feb. 20 | A new scientific study that was done in England has made promising progress in helping to treat peanut allergies. The study involved giving four children who have severe peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour every day. The study found that the...

Clinical trial outsourcing raises questions

Feb. 19 | The controversial question of outsourcing has spread to the pharmaceutical world, as more and more companies are looking outside of the United States to conduct clinical trials. But a new study from Duke University casts doubt on whether this outsourcing...

Prenatal Link to Alzheimer’s Possible?

Feb. 19 | U.S. scientists at Genentech Inc., a biotech company in San Francisco, CA, now have us asking if there is a prenatal link to Alzheimer’s disease. Not only is this theory thought provoking, but quite radical, departing from common popular theories...

MRSA infections in hospital intensive care units has declined

Feb. 19 | According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of MRSA infections in hospital intensive care units has declined by as much as seventy percent. Many patients are worried about catching MRSA infections when they are in the hospital....

Trial Links Menopause Drug To Breast Cancer Recurrence

Feb. 19 | A recent Dutch study has been released which may link tibolone, a drug commonly used to treat menopause and osteoporosis, to an increased risk of recurrent breast cancer among disease survivors. The study’s lead researcher, Professor Peter Kenemans,...