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February 2009

February 2

Health Tip: Check Your Child's Car Seat Health Tip: Caring for a Deep Cut Stroke Drug Might Be a Memory-Booster Inflammation May Play Role in Sleep Duration You Own It, You'll Eat It Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 2, 2009 Health Highlights: Feb. 2, 2009 Quick Orthopedic Repair Can Save Young Shoulders Newer Sedative May Reduce Delirium in ICU Patients Kapidex Approved for Acid Reflux When Gauging Age, the Eyes Have It New Clues to Stopping Colitis-Linked Cancer Obama Orders Review of FDA in Salmonella Outbreak Experts Urge Limits on Use of Cardiac CT Scans Many Kids Don't Need the Vitamins They're Taking Education Doesn't Slow Alzheimer's Decline Smoking-Low Birth Weight Link Explained in Part Teen TV Time Tied to Adult Depression Blood Test May Predict Postpartum Depression Mental Illness Doesn't Predict Violent Behavior

February 3

Insulin May Protect Against Alzheimer's Health Tip: Taking Your Temperature Health Tip: Safe Use of Air Bags SSRI Antidepressants May Lower Adult Suicide Risk Stool-Based Colon Cancer Tests Vary Widely in Accuracy Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 3, 2009 Health Highlights: Feb. 3, 2009 Mouse Study Suggests ADHD Drug Might Be Addictive Medicare Drug Plan 'Doughnut Hole' Could Impact Seniors' Health Fewer Women Are Having Mammograms Childhood Beach Vacations May Boost Melanoma Risk 2 Years of Hormone Use May Be 'Safe' Therapy, Meds Best for Lumbar Low Back Pain Fractures in Older Adults Up Death Risk Radiation From CT Scans Not Always the Same Are We Exercising Pain Away? Not So Much. Dialysis Patients Do Better at Higher Altitudes Parental Distrust May Explain Lack of Black Children in Clinical Trials U.S. Flu Season Off to Slow Start

February 4

Methamphetamine Abuse Costs U.S. $23.4 Billion Health Tip: Prevent Painful Chapped Hands Health Tip: Safe Use of a Generator Exercise Key Player in Knee Replacement Recovery High Resting Heart Rate Spells Trouble for Women Health Highlights: Feb. 4, 2009 Vectical Ointment Approved for Psoriasis New Standards Set for Heparin and Glycerin Discharge Plan Cuts Hospital Readmissions, Patient Costs Leprosy Drug Holds Promise for Autoimmune Diseases Artificial Light Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk Cancer Survivors Say Costs Keep Them From Care Most Young, Black Females Are Not Getting HPV Vaccine Gene Mutation Tied to Majority of Cases of Mental Retardation Drop in Breast Cancer Rates Due to Drop in HRT Use Adding a Cancer Drug May Make Matters Worse Tainted China Formula Caused High Rate of Kidney Stones in Kids Plan Hopes to ID Early Halt in Reproductive Function RSV to Blame for 1 in 13 Pediatrician Visits

February 5

Health Highlights: Feb. 5, 2009 Two-Thirds of Hispanic Women Discover Breast Cancer Themselves Health Tip: Controlling Your Blood Sugar Health Tip: Wean Your Child From Breast-Feeding Vitamin D Deficit May Trigger MS Risk Gene Statins Don't Cut Cancer Risk Quick Stroke Treatment Improves Outcomes Cancer Patients Often Stranded in Health Insurance Nightmares Color Can Affect How People Think and Act Private Health Care Info Needs Better Safeguards Cataract Surgery Doesn't Worsen AMD Lung Problems Persist for 9/11 Responders What Moms Learned May Be Passed to Offspring Rural Areas Able to Increase Colon Cancer Screenings Spine Injuries a Common Result of Car Crashes Shorter Menopause May Speed Risk of Heart Disease Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 5, 2009 Zinc May Counter Effects of Alcohol in Early Pregnancy

February 6

Health Tip: Caring for a Canker Sore Genome Study Points to New Culprit for Schizophrenia Health Tip: Do I Have a Cold or Flu? Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Faces Tough Battle Against Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 6, 2009 Health Highlights: Feb. 6, 2009 Imaging of Low Back Pain Fails to Change Outcomes Minorities Distrust Medical System More Fertility Drugs Do Not Increase Ovarian Cancer Risk Panel Finds Evidence Murky on Full-Body Skin Exams For Preschoolers, Even 'Play' Tends to Be Sedentary First Ablation Catheters Approved for Atrial Fibrillation Prescription Chondroitin May Help Knee Osteoarthritis Gene Test Could Predict Thyroid Cancer Risk Needed: Blood Donations Female Hormones Deter Salt-Sensitive Hypertension FDA: Company Knowingly Shipped Tainted Peanut Products Gene Therapy May Ease Rheumatoid Arthritis

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February 16

Health Tip: When Arthritis Affects the Hands Health Tip: Scuba Diving Safety Experts Release Guidelines on Use of Breast MRI Genes That Control Body's Salt Levels Are Identified Salt Boosts Blood Pressure in High-Risk Patients Health Highlights: Feb. 16, 2009 Uloric Approved for Gout Using Sleep to Manage Headaches May Cause Insomnia Prenatal Exposure to Traffic Pollution May Lead to Asthma Hodgkin's Survivors Prone to Breast Cancer Later Economic Bad Times Put Minorities at Higher Crime Risk Not Many U.S. Kids Need Statins Teaching Hospitals' Post-Op Gains Not Extended to Blacks Coffee Drinking Lowers Women's Stroke Risk Sudden Cardiac Death Rare in Young Athletes Family History of Melanoma Doubles Parkinson's Risk Add More Facts to Drug Ads, Experts Urge Age No Bar to Aggressive Rx for Cardiogenic Shock Doctors' Guide to Cancer Drugs May Need Revising

February 18

Newborn Screenings Now Required Across U.S. Nausea Drug Shows Promise Against Opioid Addiction Health Tip: Storing Breast Milk Health Tip: Your Diabetes Health-Care Team Tumors Linked to Fetal Stem Cell Transplant Health Highlights: Feb. 18, 2009 Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 18, 2009 Cancer Death Rates Decline Among Blacks, But Disparities Linger Health Groups Slam Tobacco Marketing to Women Fast Arrival at Hospital After Stroke Pays Off Social Class, Gender Won't Shield Smokers from Harm ER Less Likely to Diagnose Stroke in Younger Folks Working With Robots May Help After a Stroke Silent Strokes More Common in Younger People Than Thought Is Bypass Truly Better than Stenting? Sunken, Unexploded Bombs Pose Cancer Risk Genetics May Help Fine-Tune Warfarin Dosage Many Clinical Trials Moving Overseas Genetic Mutations Linked to Deadly Brain Cancer

February 19

Health Tip: Keeping Your Children Warm in Winter Two-Drug Combo May Lower Diabetics' Kidney Risk A Pill to Prevent Hearing Loss? Health Tip: Warning Signs of Sleep Apnea If Parents Had Alzheimer's, Aging May Come Early Health Highlights: Feb. 19, 2009 Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 19, 2009 Thrill-Seekers' Brains May Be Wired Differently Obesity, Lack of Insurance Take Toll on Young Americans Implanted Device Approved for Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Out-of-Control Blood Sugar May Affect Memory Uninsured Hospital Stays On the Rise B Vitamins Might Lower Stroke Risk FDA Warns Users on Psoriasis Drug Know the Warning Signs of Stroke? Most Don't. More Fast-Food Joints in Neighborhoods Mean More Strokes Stress May Speed Melanoma Progression Few Stroke Patients Get Clot-Busting Drug Bill Clinton, Health Groups to Tackle Childhood Obesity

February 24

Meditation May Boost College Students' Learning 'Degrading' Lyrics Linked to Teen Sex Waiting is the Hardest Part in Biopsies Scientists Find Gene for Tooth Enamel Health Tip: Good Gardening Techniques Health Tip: At Risk for Gingivitis Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 24, 2009 Health Highlights: Feb. 24, 2009 Gene Variant Raises Risk of Uterine Fibroids Recession Scrambling Health Spending in U.S. PSA Tests Not Race-Specific, Study Finds Diabetes Linked to Depression During and After Pregnancy Drinking Raises Cancer Risk for Middle-Age Women Drugs May Help Healthy Men Lower Prostate Cancer Risk Most HIV-Infected Prisoners Go Untreated After Release Weak Evidence Backs Most Heart Guidelines, Report Finds Ailment Linked to Pigs May Reveal Keys to Other Disorders Tests Might Diagnose, Predict Prostate Cancer

February 25

Work May Not Be Best for Young Kids Health Tip: Lift Weights to Boost Your Health Health Tip: Helping a Broken Toe Heal Experts Call for FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products Obesity Just as Risky for Teens as Heavy Smoking Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 25, 2009 Health Highlights: Feb. 25, 2009 Genes May Help Drive Rotator Cuff Injury Using a Balloon to Repair a Broken Back Why Music Triggers a Walk Down Memory Lane Scientists Spot New Clue to Alzheimer's Study Pinpoints New Gene for Cystic Fibrosis Hormones May Help Shield Women from Parkinson's FDA Halts New Applications From Indian Drug Maker's Plant Compounds Found to Protect Rabbits From Cerebral Palsy Antibiotic-Resistant Meningitis Reported in U.S. Iodine in Prenatal Vitamins Varies Widely Want to Lose Weight? Just Eat Less, Diet Study Suggests Chili Pepper Compound Can Bring Pain Relief

February 26

Joint Replacement Soars as Number of Docs Falls Health Tip: Understanding Metabolic Syndrome Health Tip: Does Your Child Have an Ear Infection? Yoga May Bring Calm to Breast Cancer Treatment Health Highlights: Feb. 26, 2009 Solostar Injection Pen Approved for Diabetes Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 26, 2009 Caffeine May Offer Some Skin Cancer Protection Scientists Discover New Drug Targets for Crohn's Disease Human Ancestors Put Best Foot Forward 1.5M Years Ago Car-Crash Death Rates Depend on Where You Live in U.S. Antibiotic Combo Fights Resistant TB Alzheimer's Plaques More Complex Than Thought Gene Mutation Linked to Inherited ALS Men's Stroke Risk Rises Dramatically in Mid-40s Diagnosing Strep Key to Curbing Rheumatic Heart Disease Babies Born in High Pollen Months at Wheezing Risk Lowering BP in Dialysis Cases Cuts Heart Risks With 4 Legs They All Walk the Same, It Seems Risk Score May Predict Abnormal Heart Rhythm

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