ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Sports-related concussions in athletes often
go unrecognized and often don’t receive proper respect for their
potential seriousness, U.S. researchers said.
Dr. Mark Halstead of Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis said an explosion in research about
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard at Dairy
Queen provides a blizzard of calories, officials of a U.S. non-profit
group said.
Officials at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit
health advocacy group in Washington, said the new ice cream dessert
weighs more
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LONDON (UPI) — A 10-year study in Britain finds the
comfortably off, white and middle aged are the most likely to
participate in sporting activities, researchers said.
The findings are based on data from several of the annual Health Surveys
for England from 1997 to 2006 involving 61,000 adults
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NEW YORK (UPI) — Thirty-nine percent of men in New York City
who have sex with other men do not disclose their sexual orientation to
their doctors, health officials said.
Healthcare providers, who know about their patients’ sexual behavior,
can help prevent HIV infection through testing,
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NASHVILLE (UPI) — U.S. researchers are trying to determine why
the South has become the Cancer Belt and why African-Americans
experience higher rates of several cancers.
“When you look at a map of brain cancer incidence in the United States
the Southeast just lights up in red,” Dr. Reid
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DURHAM, N.C. (UPI) — U.S. researchers are trying to link a
location or environmental exposure to 1991 Gulf War veterans with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Marie Lynn Miranda of Duke University layered military records of troop
locations onto Gulf-area maps and found
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LUBBOCK, Texas (UPI) — Women are more likely than men to
remove tattoos, possibly motivated by the social stigma and negative
comments, U.S. researchers said.
Myrna L. Armstrong of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
in Lubbock, Texas, conducted a survey of 196 people who visited
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BOISE, Idaho (UPI) — Washing hands for 20 seconds with
attention to fingernails will help prevent and control infections, the
author of “Infection Control for Dummies” said.
“Infection Control for Dummies” is a free 48-page, pocket-size handbook
that helps consumers and environmental service
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Too much TV time is bad for children, even if they’re not actively
watching the televised program. The results of a recent study revealed
that leaving your television on to provide background noise can be
distracting and disruptive to young children at play.
The study, published in the July 2008
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In recent years, primary care physicians have seen a growing number of
adults complaining of memory problems. Unfortunately, most of the
patients are given a prescription and sent home — only to wait for the
problem to get worse. As the country’s population of older adults
continues to grow, the
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