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Romney spends heavily in a challenging month
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and a "super PAC" working on his behalf spent more than twice as much as they raised in January, underscoring how persistent challenges by rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have taxed the former...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Crossroads, Federal Election Commission, Economy, Business and Finance, Liberty Media Corporation
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The Healthy Skeptic: Probiotics could help in cold and flu season
Now that we're deep into the cold and flu season, it's safe to assume that germs are hiding pretty much everywhere — the keypad at the grocery store checkout, the handrail on the bus, the air around that miserable-looking co-worker.
Avoiding...Tags: Whole Foods Market, Human Body, Health, Companies and Corporations, Echinacea (dietary supplement)
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Pro/Con: Is sharing a bed with baby healthful or risky?
If Facebook is any indication, new parents love to take photos of their partners happily dozing with a sleeping baby. But while this moment may be picturesque, how safe is it?
The practice of having infants sleep in the same bed as mom and dad is known...Tags: Human Body, Health, Hormones and Metabolism, Nursing, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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Workaholism: Maybe not such a bad thing
Elizabeth Valenzuela, a managing partner at a law firm in Sherman Oaks, has been an attorney for 26 years but sounds like a fresh law school grad when she talks about her work.
"There is an excitement about what is around the corner," says Valenzuela,...Tags: Heart Disease, Health, Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Medical Specialization
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Demi Moore may have exhaustion; is it a real medical condition?
Demi Moore isn't the first celebrity to be hospitalized with what has been described in numerous media reports as exhaustion, and she won't be the last. But is exhaustion a true medical condition, or a euphemism for something else?
It can be the real...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Demi Moore, Symptoms, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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PFCs associated with lowered response to childhood vaccines
Exposure to perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, a class of chemical used in food packaging and textiles, was associated with a lowered immune response to the tetanus and diphtheria vaccines in 5- to 7-year-olds in the Faroe Islands, researchers reported...Tags: Human Body, Health, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Tetanus
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'Totally drug-resistant' TB in India: What happens now?
Doctors are tracking at least a dozen cases of "totally drug-resistant" tuberculosis in India. How did the resistant strains develop, and how will public health officials respond?
Dr. Otto Yang of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA spoke with Booster...Tags: Human Body, Health, Medical Procedures and Tests, Human Body, Chemicals
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HPV study finds 7% of U.S. teens, adults carry virus in mouths
Los Angeles TimesA new study showing an estimated 7% of American teens and adults carry the human papillomavirus in their mouths may help health experts finally understand why rates of mouth and throat cancer have been climbing for nearly 25 years. The evidence makes it...Tags: Human Body, Health, Education, Drugs and Medicines, Human papillomavirus
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That bad attitude? Blame the birth month
If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...Tags: Human Body, Health, Insulin, University of Chicago, Hormones and Metabolism
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Childhood disorder prompts study of infection link to mental illness
Brody Kennedy was a typical sixth-grader who loved to hang out with friends in Castaic and play video games. A strep-throat infection in October caused him to miss a couple of days of school, but he was eager to rejoin his classmates, recalls his mother,...Tags: Human Body, Health, Literature, Stress, Medical Specialization
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Billy Graham improving; pneumonia a particular threat for the elderly
Evangelist Billy Graham, who is 93 years old, was hospitalized Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., and subsequently diagnosed with pneumonia. It was the second time in about six months that Graham has been treated for the condition.
As of Thursday afternoon,...Tags: Human Body, Health, Coughing, Viral Diseases and Infections, Pneumonia
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World AIDS Day: What does the future hold?
Today is World AIDS Day. In the 30 years since the scourge emerged, more than 30 million people have died and twice as many have been infected with HIV. Dr. Richard Marlink, executive director of the AIDS Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health,...Tags: Human Body, Health, Viral Diseases and Infections, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Epidemics and Plagues
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