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Prescriptions: Reading the Fine Print in Health Plans
It's time to check out the fine print in your health plans.
Published by NYT on: 2010-10-15

Diagnosis: Rough Patches
A painful rash (that appears and disappears) strikes a 4-year-old boy.
Published by NYT on: 2010-10-15

Livestock Virus Eradicated, U.N. Says
A vaccine campaign stopped the virus, which was last seen in Kenya in 2001. It is only the second disease, after smallpox, to be declared eradicated.
Published by NYT on: 2010-10-15

Antibiotic Use Linked To Higher Breast Cancer Risk
After reviewing a number of published studies, researchers from the University of Athens in Greece concluded that antibiotics use appears to be linked to a slightly higher risk of breast cancer. While this is not the first time such a link has been investigated, their study also tried to address some of the problems behind the inconsistent results of previous studies. You can read about the work that led to this conclusion in a recent study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and ...
Published by Medical News Today on: 2010-10-15

Lay Bystanders Should Do Just Chest Compressions, No Mouth-To-Mouth
What should you do if you are not a health care professional and somebody collapses in the street and you feel no pulse? Should you do chest compressions, mouth-to-mouth, or both? Researchers from St. Louis, USA and Vienna, Austria are telling emergency services to advise lay bystanders not to bother with the mouth-to-mouth, and just focus on chest compressions until the ambulance or a health professionals arrive - their findings reveal that the patient has a better chance of survival this ...
Published by Medical News Today on: 2010-10-15

Mammograms with Breast Implants (associatedcontent)
associatedcontent - Having a diagnostic mammogram is very important for women. A mammogram is a screening x-ray used to check for cancer in women. The Cancer Institute recommends women age 40 and older have a mammogram every 1-2 years. Signs of breast cancer include pain, skin thickening, nipple discharge, lump or any change in the size or shape of the breast. Risk factors include a personal history of breast cancer, a family history of breast cancer, having children after the age of 30, ...
Published by Yahoo! on: 2010-10-15

Chemists produces biodiesel at their university, using used cooking oil as a basis
The cafeterias at the catering school at a university use liters upon liters of oil for cooking, given that many students, research workers, lecturers and ancillary staff eat there. Currently a truck takes away all the waste. However, a number of chemistry faculty lecturers have demonstrated that this oil can be used and revalued at the university itself.
Published by ScienceDaily on: 2010-10-15

First babies born from genetic screening study
Two women taking part in the world's first controlled study of a comprehensive genetic screening test before IVF have given birth to healthy babies.
Published by ScienceDaily on: 2010-10-15

Misdiagnosis? Alzheimer's disease not only type of dementia
Alzheimer's disease is not the only type of dementia. In more than 75% of patients, the memory impairments are due to Alzheimer?s disease. In Lewy body dementia, which is accompanied by cognitive and/or further psychiatric symptoms, and in Parkinson?s disease dementia, these develop only after the motor symptoms of the disorder have fully developed.
Published by ScienceDaily on: 2010-10-15

How to weigh a star using a moon
How do astronomers weigh a star that's trillions of miles away and way too big to fit on a bathroom scale? In most cases they can't, although they can get a best estimate using computer models of stellar structure. An astrophysicist says that in special cases, we can weigh a star directly.
Published by ScienceDaily on: 2010-10-15