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Increase in breast-feeding could save lives and billions of dollars
Associated PressThe lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90% of U.S. mothers breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says. Those results, to be published online Monday in the journal...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes, Corruption, Infants
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The 'contagion' of social networks
The old folk concept that our personal health behaviors rub off on those around us has received a staggering amount of scientific support of late. Over the last few years, study after study has shown that weight gain, drug and alcohol use, even loneliness...Tags: University of Michigan, Health and Medical Professionals, Mental Health, Science, Science and Technology
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Thursday's Talk Shows
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of April 17 - 23 in PDF format TV listings for the week of April 17 - 23 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found...... -
Mildred Jefferson dies at 84; leading anti-abortion activist
Dr. Mildred Jefferson, a nationally recognized leader of the anti- abortion movement and the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, has died. She was 84.
Jefferson died Friday in Cambridge, Mass., said Anne Fox, president of...Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Health and Medical Professionals, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Chiropractors, Internists
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Diabetes: A battle for control
Simply put, diabetes is a contest between people and their blood. For people whose bodies don't produce enough insulin to manage their blood sugar, the goal is a normal blood score, achieved through a balancing act of lifestyle and medication....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes, Blood Pressure Decrease, Medical Research, Columbia University
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Eat, drink and -- just maybe -- prevent diabetes
What you eat may help reduce the risk of diabetes, says a recently released report from Harvard Medical School. Among its findings:
Coffee: One cup a day is linked to a 13% reduction in diabetes risk. Two to three cups a day is linked to a 42%...Tags: Diabetes, Diets and Dieting, Butter, University of Southern California, Education
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A cadaver gets under her skin
We enter the gross anatomy lab at 8 a.m. and spend the next two-and-a-half hours palpating bodies, cutting through skin and subcutaneous fat, probing muscle layers and searching for nerves and blood vessels.
Before our first day, our anatomy professor...Tags: Rectum, Surgery, Movies, Science, Science and Technology
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'The Emperor of All Maladies' by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner: 572 pp., $30 Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies," a remarkable history of the 4,000-year-old war on cancer, shines a focused beam of light on a disease...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Surgery, Science and Technology, Human Body
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Edgar Wayburn dies at 103; longtime Sierra Club president helped double U.S. parkland
Edgar Wayburn, a San Francisco physician and longtime president of the Sierra Club who was credited with protecting more parks and wilderness areas than any other American, has died. He was 103.
Wayburn died Friday at his home in San Francisco of natural...Tags: Justice System, Natural Resources, Travel, Conservation, Gardens and Parks
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Exercise vs. Counting Calories
As a nation, we are obviously getting fatter and fatter. Not only are we ever more confused about how to lose weight, we're particularly fuzzy on the question of how big a role exercise plays and whether we just have to count calories.
So, here's the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, People, Diabetes, Science and Technology, Breast Cancer
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PASSINGS: Charles Lewis
Charles Lewis UCLA professor of healthcare Dr. Charles Lewis, 81, a longtime UCLA professor whose research included preventive medicine, AIDS and delivery of healthcare, died Jan. 7 at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness, his family said....Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, University of Cincinnati, University of California, Los Angeles, Family, Research
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Looking for health advice? Dr. Coca-Cola will see you now
Booster ShotsWhen the American Academy of Family Physicians announced it had received a substantial grant to enhance educational information about nutrition on its FamilyDoctor.org site, you???d think health experts would have been happy. But the money was earmarked...
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