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Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that
PORTLAND, Ore. — Proponents of fluoridating Portland's water supply had no trouble getting the local Urban League on board. Here in the biggest city in the country that still doesn't treat its water to prevent tooth decay, studies show that low-...
Tags: Dental Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Dietary Supplements, Crime, Law and Justice, Tooth Decay
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Travis Stork of 'The Doctors'
As more people get their health information from TV and the Internet, it becomes crucial to have experts on the small screen who can provide accurate information. That's where Travis Stork, co-host of the TV show "The Doctors," comes in. Stork, an...
Tags: Television, Entertainment, Obesity, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: Heart Failure, Dwayne Johnson, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Pharmaceuticals, High Blood Pressure
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Study casts doubt on some findings about sodium
Are Americans getting mixed messages about how much sodium they should be consuming? Lately, yes, and some of those messages are muddled because studies themselves are muddled, a panel of doctors has concluded. The Institute of Medicine panel...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Failure, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Kidney Disease
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Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells
For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...
Tags: George W. Bush, Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease, Viral Diseases and Infections, Chemical Industry
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Restaurant meals overloaded with salt, fat, calories, study says
Want to satisfy your full day’s requirement of salt, fat and calories? Sit down in a restaurant and order a meal. After an exhaustive analysis of 3,507 possible ways to order 685 meals at 19 restaurants chains in Canada, researchers found that the...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Food Industry, Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Burger King Whopper
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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: Diseases and Illnesses, Harvard University, Behavioral Conditions, Heart Disease, Cleveland State University
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Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist
Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...
Tags: Television, Entertainment, Game Shows, Cornell University, Psychology
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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: Health Insurance Cost, Obesity, Public Employees, Local Government, Heart Failure
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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: Obesity, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease, Richard Nixon
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Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study says
WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health....
Tags: George W. Bush, John McCain, High Blood Pressure, Mental Health, Health Insurance
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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: Erectile Dysfunction, Food and Drug Administration, Dietary Supplements, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure
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