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August 2008

August 1

Centenarians Offer Long-Life Secrets Health Tip: Pain Reliever Side Effects Health Tip: Questions to Ask Your Doctor When You're Pregnant Cannabis-Linked Cell Receptor Might Help Prevent Colon Cancer Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 1, 2008 Health Highlights: August 1, 2008 Ob/Gyn Group Urges Routine HIV Tests for All Women Sleep Apnea Boosts Death Risk Drug Resistance Is Slowing Global Fight Against TB Breast CT Scans Could Be Comfortable Alternative to Mammograms Creatine Has Negligible Effect on COPD Exercise Rehab Wives Often Head Home When Husband's Workload Grows Immune System Protein Predicts Toxic Shock Survival Methadone Kills Resistant Leukemia Cells Neurons Can Re-Grow in Some MS Lesions Taking Depression to Heart 1976 Italian Dioxin Release Damaged Babies' Thyroids Once-Daily Combo Works for New HIV Patients

August 2

Orthopedic Surgeons Weigh in on Pool Safety Number of New U.S. HIV Infections Gets Revised Upwards Health Highlights: August 2, 2008

August 3

Video Consultations Effective for Stroke Treatment Health Highlights: August 3, 2008 New HIV/AIDS Guidelines Suggest Earlier Treatment

August 4

Health Tip: Get Rid of Allergens Diving Accidents Common Among U.S. Kids OTC Cold Medicines Sending Children to Emergency Rooms Health Tip: Good Health for Men Immunotherapy Boosts Treatment of Kids' High-Risk Sarcomas Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 4, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 4, 2008 Excessive Drinking Boosts Risk for Metabolic Syndrome Many Cancer Patients Turn to Complementary Medicine Many Kids Under 15 Watch Violent Movies Children in Blended Families Still Close to Biological Mothers Injected Drug Approved for High Blood Pressure Estrogen May Have Preventive Role in Women's Schizophrenia Kids Who Sleep Poorly at Risk for Being Overweight One-Third of Uninsured Are Chronically Ill Blood-Thinner Plavix Works Harder in Smokers New Guidelines Rule Out Prostate Screening for Men Over 75 Immigrant Children Less Likely to Exercise Researchers Push Aggressive Cholesterol Control in Kids

August 5

Commonly Used HIV Infectivity Rate Misses Risks Health Tip: Before You Take Medication Vitamin C Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment Health Tip: Keep Baby From Heat Rash Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 5, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 5, 2008 New Test Diagnoses Anemia in Chronic Disease For Psychiatrists, Talk Therapy Falling by Wayside HIV Drug Might Spur Resistant Strains of Virus Fish May Ward Off Dementia and Stroke Nurturing Parents Can Cut Risk of Aggression in Girls Many Women Struggle With Challenge of a Newborn Laser Therapy as Good as Drugs for Diabetic Eye Problems FDA OKs Flu Vaccines for 2008-09 Season Brain Pathway Yields Clues to Cigarette Addiction DNA Helps Trace History of Human Migration

August 6

Medicinal Marijuana Eases Neuropathic Pain in HIV What's in a Name? When It Comes to Drugs, Plenty Health Tip: Wash Your Hands Health Tip: Can't Sleep? Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 6, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 6, 2008 Light Exercise Prevents Atrial Fibrillation in Elderly Brain Slow to Judge Fast-Moving Objects Head-On Autistic Children Make Limited Eye Contact Exercise Lowers Risk of Colon Cancer ER, Doctor Visits Topped 1 Billion in 2006 Researchers Find Genes That Influence West Nile Virus Americans Drinking Less Alcohol GI Bleeding After Stroke Raises Death Risk Light Stretching Improves Range of Joint Motion Monitoring Hormone May Improve Kidney Failure Outcomes One-Fifth of British Childhood Cancer Survivors Smoke Study Links Agent Orange to Prostate Cancer in Vietnam Vets

August 7

Health Tip: Detecting False Labor Fat Deposits Boost Heart Attack Risk Health Tip: Managing Your Child's Migraines Breaking the News About Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 7, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 7, 2008 2 New Genes Tied to 3 Cancers Disease-Specific Stem Cell Lines Developed Most Americans Want Health Care Reform Men More Likely Than Women to Adopt Children B Cells Can Act Alone in Autoimmune Diseases Protein Key to Brain Rewiring Blood Sugar Test May Also Aid Diabetes Detection Medical Blogs May Threaten Patient Privacy Many Miss Out on Stroke Treatment Gene Behind Rare Eye Disease in Dachshunds Discovered Robot Playmates Help Autistic Kids With Social Skills Death From Febrile Seizure Rare in Children

August 8

Health Tip: Keep Gestational Diabetes Under Control Health Tip: Prevent Constipation Easing Your Teens Into the Back-to-School Schedule Interrupted Night Sleep Worse for Cognitive Function Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 8, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 8, 2008 Soy Protein Doesn't Lower Cholesterol Gene Variant May Decide Who Smokes and for How Long Obese Men Face Twin Threat From Prostate Cancer New Technique Removes Gallbladder Without External Incisions Fat Cell Protein Boosts Heart Attack Risk in Elderly Too Much Salt Boosts Blood Pressure Turbulence Predicts Death Risk for Heart Failure Patients Breast-Feeding: The Stress Buster That Lasts for Years New Therapy Freezes Out Esophageal Cancers Chickenpox Protection: Get That Booster

August 9

2 Checklists Aid Those Over 50 With Medical Decisions Health Highlights: Aug. 9, 2008

August 10

Health Highlights: Aug. 10, 2008 More Than Temperature Puts Elderly at Risk in Heat Scientists Create Mice Resistant to Obesity

August 11

Health Tip: What to Wear While Running Health Tip: Get a Good Night's Sleep While Pregnant Married Folks Still the Healthiest One in 5 Young Men Had Prostate Screen in Past Year Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 11, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 11, 2008 Gene Variant May Predispose Some to Anxiety Gene Treatment in Mice Makes Old Liver Cells Young Researchers Hunt Normal Cells That Give Rise to Cancer Lack of Vitamin D Boosts Death Risk Half of U.S. Adults Lack 20/20 Vision Run for Your Life Stroke Risk Plummets With Healthy Lifestyle U.S. Hospitals Underutilize Proven Heart Failure Therapy Studies Refine Obesity's Risk for Heart Troubles Athletes' Study Shows Pride, Shame Universal Behaviors Low-Birth-Weight Babies at Risk for Salt Sensitivity Powerful Antacid Drugs Raise Fracture Risk

August 12

Weight Loss After Diabetes Diagnosis Offers Big Benefits: Study Health Tip: Prepare Yourself for Surgery Older Patients With Cancer at Heightened Suicide Risk Health Tip: Read to Your Toddler Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 12, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 12, 2008 Viread Approved for Hepatitis B PET Scans May Help Detect Alzheimer's Brain Plaques Diabetes Onset, Severity Tied to Cognitive Problems New Chemotherapy Combo Holds Promise for Lung Cancer New Test Scans Beef for Mad Cow Disease Surgery Helps With Prostate Cancer, Sometimes Drinking Problems Greater Among Returning Combat Veterans Breakfast Eggs Keep Folks on Diet Risk of Breast Cancer Relapse Can Linger Post-Surgical Epidural May Boost Survival Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer Face Joint Issues

August 13

Health Tip: Something in Your Eye? Health Tip: Beating Backpack Pain Many Hispanics Shut Out of U.S. Health Care System Golf Course Insecticides Pose Little Danger to Players Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 13, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 13, 2008 Blocking Drug-Related Memories May Prevent Relapses Healthy Sex Life Can Extend Into 80s Physical Frailty Could Predict Alzheimer's Disease Poor Coordination in Childhood Tied to Adult Obesity Men and Women Calculate Cost of Affairs Epilepsy Receiving Inadequate Attention More U.S. Women Getting Birth Control Services Air Pollution Can Damage Heart, Blood Vessels, Too HRT Drug Boosts Stroke Risk in Older Women Infant Heart Transplant Controversy Continues Angioplasty No Better Than Drug Treatment in Long Run

August 14

Lack of Energy in Old Age May Foretell Illness Health Tip: Help Control Irritable Bowel Moisturizers Spur Skin Cancer in Mouse Study Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 14, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 14, 2008 Safey Triggers, Training Cut Nail Gun Injuries Exercise Reduces Blood Pressure... New Lymphoma Drug Shows Promise Insurance Matters When It Comes to Kids' Health Care Stress, Anxiety Worsen Response to Allergens Stroke Risk in Women Smokers Goes Up by Each Cigarette Obesity Linked to Ear Infections Childhood Dairy Intake Boosts Bone Health Later On How Long-Distance Runners Get to the Finish Medicare Prescription Drug Premiums to Rise in '09 Heart Drug Used in Ambulance Boosts Survival

August 15

Health Tip: Sleep Positions While You're Pregnant Statins Might Reverse ED in Some Men Asthma's Course Differs by Gender Health Tip: Managing a Chronic Illness Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 15, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 15, 2008 Refs May Be Blinded by Red Uniforms Drug Combo Cuts COPD Lung Function Loss Statins Help Obese People After Bypass Surgery Older Adults Reluctant to Question Surgical Treatment First Treatment Sanctioned for Chorea in Huntington's Patients Money Matters Study Probes Internet Health-Related Search Patterns Can Physical Cues Signal Dementia? Testosterone Associated With Disease Transmission Rituximab Promotes Healing in Common Kidney Disease

August 16

Health Highlights: Aug. 16, 2008 Freshman Weight Gain Has Many Culprits

August 17

Pack Safety Should Be on Back-to-School Lists Antidepressant Use Tied to Poorer Driving Health Highlights: Aug. 17, 2008 Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Immune 90 Years Later

August 18

Newly Discovered Air Pollutants May Cause Lung Problems Health Tip: Keep Cholesterol Under Control New Imaging Technique Could Spot Early Cancers Health Tip: Check Baby's Toys for Safety Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 18, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 18, 2008 A Hope: Contaminant-Free Synthetic Heparin Science May Banish Bad Hair Days Gum Chewing May Speed Colon Surgery Recovery Poor Sleep Linked to High Blood Pressure in Teens Older Patients Less Likely to Be Taken to Trauma Centers Epilepsy Raises Drowning Risk Study Lets Teens Sound Off on Acne Therapies Low Vitamin D Raises Women's Hip Fracture Risk Immune Response May Hinder Stem Cell Treatments Reaching the Heart Through the Wrist

August 19

ED Drug Cialis Relieves Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Health Tip: Who's Prone to Iron Deficiency? Living to 100 Doesn't Mean Living Poorly Health Tip: Take a Healthy Hike Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 19, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 19, 2008 Imaging System Lets Doctors 'See' Cancer During Surgery More Juices Found to Affect Drugs' Effectiveness: Study Ultrasound Used to Predict Heart Attack Risk Obesity Rates Up in 37 States: Report Silver-Coated Ventilator Tubes Cut Risk of Pneumonia Vitamin B, Folate Supplements Won't Help Heart Cognitive Score Changes Over Time May Hint at Dementia Medicare Web Site Confounds Many Seniors Mathematical Model Helps Predict Cancer Tumor Size Arsenic in Drinking Water Raises Diabetes Risk Zoledronic Acid Protects Bones of Women Getting Breast Cancer Treatment

August 20

Health Tip: Before Your Mammogram Compression Stockings Often Incorrectly Used Health Tip: Prevent Bath Time Injuries 79 Million Americans Struggle to Pay Medical Bills Health Highlights: Aug. 20, 2008 Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 20, 2008 Addiction Drug Causes Rapid Weight Loss in Rats Calcium Might Have Taste Humans Can Detect Bone Growth Protein Also Promotes 'Good' Fat Women's Alcohol Use Tied to Delayed Childbearing Underaged, Inebriated Easily Get Drinks at Stadiums Skin Cancer Carries Its Own Scent Cervical Cancer Vaccine Worth the Cost: Study Preeclampsia Raises Risk of Serious Kidney Disease Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Won't Cause Cancer Modified MRI Spots Early Osteoarthritis Experimental Drug Shows Early Promise Against Cystic Fibrosis

August 21

Osteo Drug Stops Bone Loss From Breast Cancer Chemo Health Tip: Monitor the Mercury in Your Food Health Tip: Prepare for a Pap Test Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 21, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 21, 2008 Strokes Can Strike the Youngest Scientists ID New Proteins in Programmed Cell Death Measles Cases Highest Since 1996 Undecided Voters Not So Undecided After All Spoonful of Sugar Really Might Help Medicine Go Down Abstinence-Only Programs Fall Short of Teens' Needs Tobacco Marketing Promotes Youth Cigarette Use Text-Messaging Injuries Blamed on Distraction Dietary Supplements May Pose Risk to Older Cancer Survivors HRT After Menopause Reduces Symptoms 3.4 Million Seniors Hit Medicare 'Doughnut Hole' Face Transplants Show Promising Results FDA Investigates Possible Vytorin-Cancer Link

August 22

Health Tip: Hair Treatments During Pregnancy Health Tip: When Your Diabetic Child Takes a Trip Molecule Keeps Bacteria Like Salmonella in Check Marinades Help Keep Grilled Meat Safe Computer-Based Method IDs Alzheimer's Protein Structures Health Highlights: Aug. 22, 2008 Intense Heat May Boost Tomato Antioxidant Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 22, 2008 Early Childhood Factors Raise Risk for Snoring Bone Marrow Treatment Approved for Rare Bleeding Disorder Gastric Band Weight-Loss Surgery Can Boost Reflux Study Examines How Rheumatoid Arthritis Destroys Bone Smokers More Likely to Bleed After Throat Surgery Laser Technology Spots Cavities Before They Start DEET Works Because Mosquitoes Hate the Smell Home Smoking Ban Keeps Teens From Lighting Up

August 23

Health Highlights: Aug. 23, 2008 Lung Association Urges Back-to-School Asthma Checklist

August 24

Health Highlights: Aug. 24, 2008 'Extended Cycle' Contraception Garners More Interest Healthy Lunches Help Kids' Concentration in School

August 25

Health Tip: When Your Child Worries Cheerleading Causes Majority of Female Athlete Injuries Long-term Exposure to Incense Raises Cancer Risk Health Tip: Feeling Thirsty? Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 25, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 25, 2008 After Fits and Starts, New Hope for Psoriasis Patients Climate Change Linked to Longer Pollen Seasons Taking Codeine While Breast-Feeding May Harm Infant Food Allergy Action Plan Can Keep Kids From Harm One-Third of Schools Built in Air Pollution Danger Zones For Rare Blood Disorder, Pumping Iron Is the Cure Uninsured Get Less Health Care Than Insured Finding May Allow Some Women to Stop Blood Thinners Antipsychotic Drug Use Up in Elderly Despite Warnings LDL Cholesterol Tied to Increased Cancer Risk in Diabetics

August 26

Health Tip: Taking an Antibiotic Health Tip: Exercise Your Brain Preterm Births Linked to Infection of Amniotic Fluid When Communication Is Lost Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 26, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 26, 2008 Tobacco Control Program Saved Billions in Health Costs Scientists ID Pathway That Makes Antipsychotic Drugs Work Number of Uninsured Americans Drops Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Ups Risk for Other Cancers Single Rooms Becoming the Norm in New Hospitals Nuts, Seeds, Popcorn Don't Boost Diverticulosis Risk Drug May Lower Blood Pressure in Adolescents With Hypertension 'Ayurvedic' Medicines May Contain Lead, Mercury or Arsenic Findings Challenge Tight Glucose Control for Critically Ill Patients Tools Test Debunks 'Dumb Neanderthals' Theory

August 27

4 More Deaths Reported Among Byetta Patients Health Tip: Using a Dietary Supplement Health Tip: Leaving Your Children Alone Mistaken Beliefs About Cancer Abound Health Highlights: Aug. 27, 2008 Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 27, 2008 New Test Identifies Heart Transplant Rejection Study Links Spanking to Physical Abuse Pancreatic Cells Turned Into Insulin-Producing Beta Cells Mental Skills Can Decline Years Before Dying Angioplasty Scoring System Predicts Risk of Death Newer Blood Pressure Drug No Better Than Placebo in Preventing Stroke Gene Linked to 'Dry' Macular Degeneration Fat Cells in Obese People Are 'Sick' Magnesium Sulfate Reduces Threat of Cerebral Palsy Low Levels of Brain Chemical May Control Appetite Combination Therapy Helps to Combat Myeloma

August 28

Bunion Surgery Patients Need 6 Weeks Before Driving Health Tip: Prepare a Fire Safety Plan Health Tip: Help Prevent a Herniated Disk Protecting Newborns From a Dangerous Threat Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 28, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 28, 2008 Cadmium Exposure Tied to Lung Disease Normal Cells May Predict Cancer Virulence Scientists Track Hourly Changes in Alzheimer's Protein Most Patients With Irregular Heartbeat Take Inadequate Blood Thinner Dose 13% of Seniors Report Being Mistreated Salmonella Outbreak Over, U.S. Says Older Caregivers Prone to Worse Sleep Patterns Treadmill Workouts Help Stroke Survivors Antipsychotic Drugs Boost Stroke Risk

August 29

Health Tip: Warning Signs of a Bleeding Disorder Mom's Smoking During Pregnancy Ups Preemie's SIDS Risk End-of-Life Choices a Complicated Affair Health Tip: Take Care of Aging Skin Clinical Trials Update: Aug. 29, 2008 Health Highlights: Aug. 29, 2008 Study Questions Flu Shot's Mortality Protection for Elderly Leave That Ear Wax Alone Some Hiroshima Survivors at Thyroid Cancer Risk Alcohol in Early Pregnancy May Prompt Fetal Cell Death Cataracts World's Leading Cause of Vision Loss Most Youths Tried as Adults Had Psychiatric Disorders Vaccines Seek to Offer Cradle-to-Grave Protection Antioxidant-Rich Diet May Protect Against Eye Disease

August 30

Health Highlights: Aug. 30, 2008 Sleepy Drivers Are Dangerous Drivers

August 31

Health Highlights: Aug. 31, 2008 Newer Blood Pressure Drug Better for Some Heart Patients, Diabetics Fish Oil Supplements Help With Heart Failure Brain 'Master Switch' May Control Appetite, Fertility

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