HealthDay – THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — A simple pill, combinedwith exercise training, might enhance speed and endurance in athletes.
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AP – The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the White House legislation that bans lead from children’s toys and seeks to ensure that chemicals posing possible health problems will not end up on toys and articles that kids chew on and play with.
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Reuters – People who have surgery to remove stomach cancer can cut the risk that it will return by getting antibiotics to eliminate a type of bacteria infecting the stomach's lining, researchers said on Thursday.
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AP – Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the White House legislation that bans lead from children’s toys and seeks to ensure that chemicals posing possible health problems will not end up on toys and articles that kids chew on and play with….
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AP – The global AIDS bill signed by President Bush on Wednesday sets a goal of treating more than the 2 million-patient target set in 2003, but how much more isn’t clear.
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BOSTON (AP) — Scientists working to help astronauts regain balance after extended flights in zero gravity say they’ve found a way to use the research to help elderly people avoid catastrophic falls….
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Reuters – Children with asthma face a number of barriers to participation in physical activity, from family beliefs to school disorganization to their own misperceptions about their symptoms, the authors of a new research review say.
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AP – Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig’s disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops.
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If you put your cell phone next to your head, are you radiating your brain cells? The jury is still out on the link between cell phones and cancer. While scientists are deliberating, click here for five tricks for lowering your exposure to cell phones’ radiation.
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AP – Scientists working to help astronauts regain balance after extended flights in zero gravity say they’ve found a way to use the research to help elderly people avoid catastrophic falls.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke….
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AP – The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke. But she had come to the right place, a church turned into a refuge from the overpowering heat.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm….
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — A test that helps identifythe type of cancer cells present in a tumor has been approved by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government bungled the salmonella outbreak probe so badly, a House committee chairman said Thursday, that federal investigators reminded him of Keystone Kops. A colleague hoped the maligned tomato can get its good name back….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The global AIDS bill signed by President Bush on Wednesday sets a goal of treating more than the 2 million-patient target set in 2003, but how much more isn’t clear….
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Reuters – Ordinary skin cells taken from patients with a fatal and incurable nerve disease have been transformed into nerve cells in a first step toward treating them, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — Black henna tattoos containa chemical called para-phenylenediamine (PPD) that can cause serious skinreactions, the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) warns.
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HealthDay – Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,compiled by editors of HealthDay:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig’s disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops….
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Reuters – Researchers who genetically engineered "marathon mice" that could run for hours have found two pills that can mimic the effects — and they have already developed a test for the drugs in case athletes try to cheat with them.
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) — If you are single and inyour 40s, it might be a healthy idea to get hitched.
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Reuters – Life-saving surgery to prevent repeated severe bleeding from ruptured veins in the esophagus or upper stomach may not induce some patients with alcoholic liver disease to stop drinking alcohol, researchers report.
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