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Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in which a child is born
may have something to do with his/her asthma risk.
Children who celebrate their
birthday before the height of cold and flu season have a higher risk of developing
childhood asthma than children born in any other time of the year, the study
shows. At the same time, the researchers say here
are a number of ways to reduce the risk associated with birth timing.
For the study, researchers at Vanderbilt University,
in Nashville, analyzed the medical records...
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Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who for over a year has been leading an investigation rooting out academic researchers with undisclosed industry ties also found that a popular National Public Radio (NPR) host of the health and science show, “The Infinite Mind,” has a conflict-of-interest with the very drug companies he talks about. The psychiatrist and former National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) director Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin collected some $1.3 million from drugmakers between 2000 and 2007. However, Goodwin never mentioned those payments to listeners, despite the...
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Banning fast-food advertising could lead to a decrease in
the number of overweight and obese children by as much as 18 percent, according
to a new study published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics.
Childhood obesity has become a national problem in the United States.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the percentage
of children ages 6 to 11 more than tripled between 1970 and 1999, as reports
show that one out of four children in the US is obese or overweight. Thirty
years ago, just one out of seven children had problems with his...
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In 2006, the Federal Government strongly advised that all patients who visit emergency rooms and doctor’s offices be tested for HIV. This week in Arlington, a large number of studies were presented, and they all showed that the advice is being almost ignored. According to the same studies, it seems that only 5% of patients are being routinely tested for HIV, and these patients are the ones who show signs of serious illnesses. Despite the notoriety of the virus and the deadly disease it causes, HIV is being “underdiagnosed” and “undertreated” in the United States, according to doctors who...
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November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging smokers to quit for at least one day in
the hope that this might help them stop permanently. We shall also not forget
that November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a month dedicated to raising
awareness on the most devastating side effect of smoking: lung cancer.
According to the Lung Cancer Alliance, lung cancer killed
160,390 people last year, an average of 439 people a day. It is the leading
cause of cancer death in the United
States, killing more people annually than
breast,...
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