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Bill would ban junk food from vending machines at state offices
Proposed legislation to remove junk food and sugar-loaded drinks from vending machines at California state office buildings and on government property is intensifying debate about when the battle against obesity becomes a gateway to "nanny state" tactics....
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., California Public Employees' Retirement System, Public Employees, Politics, Diabetes
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Aerobic exercise as breast cancer prevention: Evidence mounts
There's a fair amount of circumstantial evidence that regular exercise reduces a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. But contradictory findings, and lingering questions as to how physical activity would work to ward off breast cancer, have clouded...
Tags: Medical Research, Physiology, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Breast Cancer
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Dietary supplement contained erectile dysfunction drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of several dietary supplements that contain the undeclared drug tadalafil, which is used to treat erectile dysfunction. The products --Â SexVoltz, Velextra, and Amerect -- were manufactured...
Tags: Product Recalls, Consumers, Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines, Erectile Dysfunction
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Cardiologist says Michael Jackson's doctor was unfit to save him
A cardiologist testified Tuesday that Michael Jackson's doctor gave his famous patient incorrect treatment when he noticed the singer had stopped breathing as a result of a powerful anesthetic the physician had administered. Dr. Daniel Wohlgelernter,...
Tags: Cardiologists, Witnesses, Prosecution, Sex Crimes, Substance Abuse
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Chris Christie's weight-loss surgery: How does it work?
An estimated 220,000 Americans undergo some type of bariatric surgery each year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has revealed that he is one of them. The high-profile Republican – who hasn’t revealed his weight but is estimated to tip the...
Tags: Medical Research, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight Loss Surgery
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How a 'million-dollar patient' got off a medical merry-go-round
For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, chronic pain, strokes. Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and her joints. Her...
Tags: Respiratory Disease, Pacific Alliance Corporation, Health, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stroke
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Rise of the 'femivores': An activist woman's place is in the kitchen
Is the feminist movement to blame for our expanding waistline? In her book “Homeward Bound,” excerpted on Salon, author Emily Matchar points to food writers and experts who’ve pinned the problem on feminism. In driving women out of the...
Tags: Periodicals, Richard Nixon, Feminism, Diseases and Illnesses, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...
Tags: Cleveland State University, World War I (1914-1918), Harvard University, Diabetes, Behavioral Conditions
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UC researchers are engineering the tobacco plant to produce bio-fuels
Once celebrated as an economic mainstay, the tobacco industry has been hard hit by health concerns, bans, lawsuits and the social stigma of cigarette smoking. Now, UC researchers are testing the plant’s potential to be genetically modified in...
Tags: Medical Research, U.S. Department of Energy, Science and Technology, Genetic Engineering, Research
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Bad news for egg lovers: Heart disease study spoils our breakfast
Fans of eggs -- scrambled, soft boiled or steaming in your breakfast burrito -- must now contend with a new report saying that the lecithin in this frequently vilified food raises the risk of heart disease due to its effect on intestinal bacteria. And...
Tags: Medical Research, Los Angeles International Airport, Diseases and Illnesses, Bacon, Vitamin B2
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FDA's counterfeit detection device takes global aim at malaria
A device that reveals counterfeit drugs in the hands of Food & Drug Administration agents is set to become the newest weapon in the worldwide effort to eradicate malaria, and may soon be used to detect useless look-alikes of drugs that combat cancer,...Tags: Margaret Hamburg, Pharmaceuticals, Corning Incorporated, Erectile Dysfunction, Food and Drug Administration
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17 outlandish garlic dishes: Celebrate National Garlic Day with garlic chocolate and garlic beer
Garlic cloves dipped in dark chocolate? Garlic cheesecake? Garlic beer? Bam! It's National Garlic Day, a day set aside on the foodie calendar to celebrate all things Allium sativum. Garlic, a species of the onion family, has been with humankind for...
Tags: Recipes, Garlic, World War I (1914-1918), University of Maryland Medical Center
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