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Allergies
, Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Lung Conditions
on April 30, 2009
According to a Costa Rican study, children with Vitamin D deficiency could be at a higher risk of developing asthma.
Vitamin D levels were also associated with increased frequency of hospitalization,...
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Lung Conditions
on April 30, 2009
The American Lung Association (ALA) has just released the State of the Air 2009 report card on air quality, ranking cities most affected by outdoor air pollution. Click here to see where your city ran...
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Cancer
, Functional Foods
, Studies
on April 29, 2009
Men who have undergone prostate cancer treatment will benefit from pomegranate juice.
According to a new US study:
According to findings published in the Journal of Urology and presented at the 10...
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Cardiovascular Health
, Diabetes
, Women's Health
on April 26, 2009
Breast milk is the best milk for babies, we've always been told. I only know that breastfeeding your baby delays your first ovulation after pregnancy. That's about the only benefit of breastf...
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Malaria
on April 23, 2009
World Malaria Day is on April 25.
In honor of the day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to host a blogger-exclusive teleconference today, Thursday, April 23 at 10:30am PT (1:30pm...
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Consumer Alert
, Pain Management
on April 22, 2009
Here is new information regarding the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) and their recent victory in Louisiana preventing non-physicians from performing interventional pain tec...
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Cancer
, Cases
on April 20, 2009
Here's an interesting new book: THE POWER OF TWO: Surviving Serious Illness with an Attitude & an Advocate by Brian and Gerri Monaghan.
Brian Monaghan, a fifty-nine-year-old lawyer at the t...
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Allergies
on April 14, 2009
Spring is here. It may be good news for most people, but for people with allergies spring can be bad news. However, you can escape seasonal allergies by going to these 5 places:
1. hit the slopes
2....
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Functional Foods
, Weight Loss
on April 10, 2009
The combination of capsaicin and green tea could promote the feeling of fullness and sustain satiety, thereby indicating it could be successful for weight management.
Such were the findings of resea...
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Digestive Disorders
, Functional Foods
, Studies
on April 6, 2009
We should all munch on broccoli sprouts. Apparently, it protects our stomach from the germ responsible for many cases of gastritis, ulcers and stomach cancers.
A new study shows that eating 2 1/2 oun...
