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Monday 18 July 2011

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UN Reports Measles Outbreak and Deaths in East Africa
By Meredith Melnick

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Who Are Teens' Sexual Role Models? Turns Out, It's Their Parents
By Bonnie Rochman

Parents may think their teens aren't listening to them about anything, let alone sex, but new research shows that 45% of them consider their parents — not friends or celebrities — their sexual role models. The study from the University [...]

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Kids Are Safer in the Car With Their Grandparents Behind the Wheel
By Alice Park

The next time you put the kids in the car, you might want to ask Grandma to drive. Kids are twice as safe when their grandparents are behind the wheel instead of their parents, a new study shows. Dr. Fred [...]

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NFL Players May Be More Vulnerable to Alzheimer's Disease
By Alice Park

Retired NFL players are more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a form of dementia that can lead to Alzheimer's disease, than similarly aged men who didn't play football, report researchers in a study presented Monday at the Alzheimer's [...]

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Casey Anthony Released: Can She Ever Lead a Normal Life?
By Bonnie Rochman

What would you do if you met Casey Anthony in Target? She yearns to stroll the aisles of the chic big-box store, at least according to letters she wrote while imprisoned on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Anthony, [...]

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Geckos Won't Cure AIDS or Impotence, Filipino Authorities Warn
By Laura Blue

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What Salt and Prozac Have in Common
By Maia Szalavitz

Recently, two medical controversies have made headlines: the question of whether too much salt is bad for your health and the debate over whether widely used antidepressant drugs work any better than placebo. The two issues are not as unrelated [...]

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Study Questions the Link Between Food Environment and Diet Quality
By Carina Storrs/Health.com

Neighborhoods that are short on supermarkets and long on fast-food restaurants and convenience stores have been blamed for contributing to unhealthy diets and obesity in the people who live there. So it makes sense that improving access to fresh produce [...]

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Got PMS? Milk Marketers Launch an Audacious, Funny New Ad Campaign
By Laura Blue

Starting this week, an eyebrow-raising ad campaign will take on one of the last taboos of America's media landscape: menstruation. Though anything to do with periods is still often considered a gross-out, the California Milk Processor Board is betting you'll chuckle at a "funny, [...]

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Cheers! 10 Summer Cocktails Made Less Fattening
By Alyson Krueger

Nothing says summer like sipping a frothy cocktail while lounging on the beach. Too bad those delicious drinks are also probably diet busters, packing hundreds of calories you don't need. That's where Healthland comes in: following are recipes for 10 [...]

 
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Friday 15 July 2011

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Why Working Men, But Not Women, Get More Exercise
By Laura Blue

Who says your job leaves you no time to hit the gym? A detailed new study of U.S. physical activity patterns shows that men who work full-time — whether their jobs are active or sedentary— end up getting more exercise than healthy working-age men without a job. [...]

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The Healthland Podcast: Superobese Kids, Parents on Facebook and Betty Ford's Mixed Legacy
By John Cloud, Belinda Luscombe and Sora Song

This week on the podcast, Healthland editor Sora Song asks whether child obesity is child abuse. TIME editor-at-large Belinda Luscombe reports that adults are less savvy on Facebook than teens. And TIME senior writer John Cloud makes a case against [...]

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Using a Big Fork May Help You Eat Less
By Laura Blue

Here's a well-known weight-loss tip: use a smaller plate, and you'll be satisfied with a smaller portion. The tip works — provided you're not genuinely very hungry — because a large part of our satisfaction at the end of a meal [...]

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T.M.I., Mom. Parents and Adults Overshare on Facebook Too, Study Says
By Belinda Luscombe

Many dire warnings have been sounded about kids using social media, particularly because teenage-sized wisdom tends to mix dangerously with Facebook-sized measures of public display. But a new study suggests that it's not just kids who overshare online. Grown-ups and [...]

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Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer or Not? The Latest Answer Is No
By Bryan Walsh

Back in May, a group of experts from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) made waves when they warned that mobile phones may indeed raise the risk for some brain tumors. As I wrote in TIME: To the [...]

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Study: For Asthma Patients, Placebos Feel Just as Good as the Drug
By Tara Thean

Sometimes the mind provides the most powerful medicine of all. A new Harvard Medical School investigation in asthma patients shows that the "placebo effect" — in which patients experience real benefits from sham treatments — can be as effective as [...]

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Move Over, Alpha Males. Why Being a Beta May Be Better (at Least for Baboons)
By Maia Szalavitz

It's stressful at the top, at least for male baboons, according to a new study that finds that alpha males — those at the pinnacle of the social hierarchy — are significantly more stressed out than a group's No. 2, [...]

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Hollywood to Kids: Smoking Isn't Cool
By Laura Blue

Were they still alive today, John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart might have been given a serious image makeover. The message from Hollywood last year: smoking in movies is not cool anymore. The number of scenes that show cigarettes has fallen dramatically [...]

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To Ward off Dementia, Try Staying Healthy From Head to Toe
By Anne Harding/Health.com

Heart disease, strokes and other serious health conditions that affect the circulatory system or brain have long been thought to contribute to an increased risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. Now, a new study suggests that even relatively minor health [...]

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How Funky Foot Odor Could Help Save Lives
By Katy Steinmetz

Fifteen years ago a Dutch scientist stood in a room, naked, and let himself be swarmed by mosquitoes. The idea was to see which part of the body the bugs were most attracted to. Turns out, it's the feet — [...]

 
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Thursday 14 July 2011

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How Funky Foot Odor Could Help Save Lives
By Katy Steinmetz

Fifteen years ago a Dutch scientist stood in a room, naked, and let himself be swarmed by mosquitoes. The idea was to see which part of the body the bugs were most attracted to. Turns out, it's the feet — [...]

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Spock at 65: Five Ideas That Changed American Parenting
By Laura Blue

Sixty-five years ago today, one of the most revolutionary books in American history was published. True, Dr. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care probably didn't look like much when it first came out in 1946 — just in [...]

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A Young Boy's Murder Has Parents Second-Guessing Their Own Decisions
By Bonnie Rochman

Kids can be very persuasive. That must have been the case with 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who talked his parents into letting him walk home alone on Monday from his day camp in Brooklyn. His parents made a deal with him: [...]

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Dentists, Too, Can Help Battle Painkiller Addiction
By Maia Szalavitz

When it comes to prescription-drug misuse, you don't usually think of dentists as the source. No one talks about "dentist shopping" or "dental pill mills." But a new study shows that in fact dentists prescribe 12% of all immediate-release opioids; [...]

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Chain Restaurants to Offer Healthy Menu Options for Kids
By Associated Press

Parents seeking healthier restaurant meals for their kids can start to look beyond chicken nuggets and macaroni-and-cheese. At least 19 restaurant chains — including Burger King, Chili's, IHOP and Friendly's — said Wednesday that they will include healthier options on [...]

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FDA Warns: 'Serious Complications' Arise From Vaginal Mesh Implants
By Laura Blue

Surgical mesh implants used to treat weakening in the pelvic region, a particularly common problem after childbirth, may actually do more harm than good, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports Wednesday. In the last three years, the agency said, it [...]

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Anti-HIV Drugs Help Prevent Infection in Heterosexuals
By Alice Park

Two landmark studies confirm that a daily pill containing powerful drugs used to treat HIV infection can also help prevent new infection in healthy HIV-free people. Both studies — one conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [...]

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Almost Every Type of Cancer Kills More Men Than Women, Study Shows
By Laura Blue

Men die at higher rates than women from almost every kind of cancer, a new study finds. Although it's been known for years that men die of cancer more often overall, the new study is among the first to study [...]

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Study: Siblings of Autistic Kids Show Similar Brain Activity
By Alice Park

The genetic roots of autism may reach further in families than previously thought, according to new research. In a study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, scientists at the University of Cambridge report that even the unaffected siblings of autistic [...]

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'Plant from Hell': Giant Hogweed Can Scar, Burn and Blind
By Laura Blue

A towering weed with sap that causes blisters and burns is blooming this month across the U.S. ABC's Good Morning America calls it the "plant from hell," and health and environment authorities from coast to coast are warning people to [...]

 
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