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February 28, 2010

Your Health: Activity-Related Leg Pain Could Be a Sign of Heart Disease

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If you routinely experience leg pain while walking, you shouldn’t
dismiss it as just a muscle cramp or a joint ache. It could be a sign of
peripheral artery disease, a serious condition that affects
approximately 10 million Americans.

Peripheral artery disease, or PAD for short, is a condition

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February 27, 2010

Lifelong Health: Childhood Obesity Fight is Personal for First Lady

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Not a week goes by without medical journals and the national press being
full of new information about obesity. While the war against weight gain
has been mounting for several years, recent leadership from first lady
Michelle Obama and the White House aims to push the cause further.

As a mother

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February 26, 2010

Woman has babies after ovary transplant

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Claus Yding Andersen of the University Hospital of Copenhagen said so
far, nine children have been born worldwide as a result of transplanting
frozen/thawed ovarian tissue — all in Europe.

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WHO: Premature to say H1N1 has peaked

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The emergency committee, which makes recommendations to Dr. Margaret
Chan, director general of WHO, held its seventh meeting on the
determination of the pandemic status.

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Magnesium may be vital to memory

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Dr. Inna Slutsky of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine
says magnesium must penetrate the blood-brain barrier to help stave off
age-related memory loss.

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Napping can make you smarter

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Lead investigator Matthew Walker, an assistant professor of psychology
at the University of California, Berkeley, also found the more hours
people spend awake, the more sluggish the mind becomes.

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February 25, 2010

Athletes with broken bones may not know it

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Serious injuries can exist even when the foot or ankle is able to
accept weight or pressure, Robert Duggan, a foot and ankle surgeon
from Orlando, Fla., said in a statement.

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Reading to English-speaking kids a must

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The study, published in Learning and Instruction, found a child learning
to read English — an orthographically inconsistent language where
letters can have more than one sound — need more help than a child
learning to read in Greek — a language with one-to-one correspondence
between a letter and its sounds.

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New no-fasting pre-diabetes test available

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This test does not require fasting and is not affected by recent dietary
changes, said Alan Mertz, president of the American Clinical Laboratory
Association in Washington.

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48,000 die of preventable hospital deaths

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Ramanan Laxminarayan, principal investigator for Extending the Cure, a
project examining antibiotic resistance for the think-tank Resources for
the Future in Washington, and his colleagues analyzed 69 million
discharge records from hospitals in 40 states and identified two
conditions caused by healthcare-associated infections — sepsis and
pneumonia. Laxminarayan says sepsis, a potentially lethal systemic
response to infection, and pneumonia can lead to longer hospital stays,
serious complications and death.

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