Many People Disregard Advice to Get HIV TestsWashington Post - 23 minutes agoBy David Brown Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week ...US Lags on HIV Testing Goals U.S. News & World ReportMany with HIV don't know it MiamiHerald.comThe read more »
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Research increasingly supports the notion that emotional, mental and physical health are very closely linked and that psychological therapy can improve a person’s overall health by effectively decreasing depression, anxiety and related symptoms, such as pain, fatigue and nausea. It can also have a positive effect on the body’s immune system. Nine out of 10 Americans surveyed by Consumer Reports said that psychological counseling helped them. Counseling is used in many situations inc read more »
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Children with severe ailments and diseases need special care. Not only do they require a specialized staff that is equipped to deal with the emotional and physical needs that children need, but they must have the most advanced technology available for those of a younger age not able to handle the treatments given to adults for the same medical conditions.read more read more »
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That Happened!Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesn't stop Alzheimer'sReuters - 1 hour agoBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The widely used herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to prevent Alzheimer's disease in healthy elderly people or those with mild cognitive impairment, US rese read more »
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My mother always tells the story that my brother and I didn’t want to be Fall babies as predicted and were stubborn enough to be born in the Summer months. Although my older brother and I are three years apart, we were both born three months early, the preemie-preemies. Hospitals have come a long way since the 1980s but premature birth is still a huge risk for babies and for those that survive, just the fact that the babies weren’t fully developed in the womb before birth can cause read more »
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Nestlé Prepared Foods Company has issued a recall on almost 900,000 pounds of their Lean Cuisine frozen prepared chicken meals. Three types of Lean Cuisine products, all distributed nationwide, are included in the recall. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service considers this a Class I recall with a high health risk.  The meals may contain foreign materials, which have been identified as small pieces of hard plastic. The discovery was made after the c read more »
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TopNewsHealth groups lash US states over tobacco effortsReuters - 47 minutes agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - US states have not lived up to their commitment to devote a major portion of their huge legal settlement with the tobacco industry a decade ago on anti-smoking efforts, health advocac read more »
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CTV.caTraces of Corn Found in Almost All Fast FoodU.S. News & World Report - Nov 13, 2008By Randy Dotinga THURSDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that many fast-food meals begin with a single ingredient: corn.Fast Food Mostly Feeds You Corn, Opposes Regulatio read more »
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