Teen girls’ medical mystery baffles doctors

January 26, 2012

Jan. 18 update: the day after TODAY reported on the baffling case of 12 teenage girls at one school who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette’s-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts, a doctor who is treating some of the girls has come forward to offer an explanation. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist in Amherst, N.Y., [...]

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How a New Swine Flu Virus Could Complicate Influenza Season

January 25, 2012

I received my annual flu shot back in October, and I have to say, I felt pretty good about myself. though doctors constantly tell us to get vaccinated, most Americans don’t bother — a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in November indicated that just 36% of all Americans age 6 [...]

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Ferndown granddad recovers from ‘silent killer’ of prostate cancer (From Bournemouth Echo)

January 24, 2012

Ferndown granddad recovers from ‘silent killer’ of prostate cancer 5:00pm Friday 20th January 2012 in Skip social links Print Email Comments(9) IT’S known as the silent killer. So when granddad William Watson, from Ferndown, was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his family were understandably worried. the retired machine tool worker, now 73, had had no symptoms [...]

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Not all women experience menopause the same way

January 23, 2012

OK, so menopause is nothing to sing and dance about. Unless, of course, you’re one of the stars of “Menopause: The Musical,” at the Luxor, where a quartet of representative women — from a housewife to a soap star — ponder everything from hot flashes to chocolate cravings in parodies of popular songs, from “Stayin’ [...]

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Mind, body, and unexplained symptoms

January 23, 2012

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona (about the author) Become a Fan  (22 fans)   — Page 1 of 1 page(s) Mind and body are inexplicably linked.   I suppose it is an artifact of the linearity of language and the way the use of language conditions our perception that we come to believe that body is somehow separate [...]

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Smart growth is healthy growth

January 22, 2012

Good planning is good public health policy. Why do I say this? As a pediatrician, I see first-hand the negative health impacts of sprawl development on our children, whose asthma is worsened by air pollution caused by too much driving. Medical professionals have known that cities designed primarily around driving are responsible for traffic pollution [...]

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Treating menopause symptoms

January 22, 2012

What is menopause? Menopause is a normal life change that occurs as women age, usually between their late 40s and 50s. Menopause is defined as the discontinuation of menstruation for one year or more. Women who undergo natural menopause often experience the process in stages: perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause. If menopause occurs prematurely, can this [...]

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Influenza viruses get new designation

January 22, 2012

Rick Jordahl, Associate Editor, Pork Network   |   Updated: December 30, 2011 Swine-origin influenza viruses identified in humans will now be referred to as “variant” viruses and denoted with a “v,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decision was made after discussions among the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization [...]

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I had cancer while I was pregnant

January 22, 2012

We’ve just come home from looking at the Turner prize nominations at the Baltic centre, just round the corner from where we live in Gateshead: Hattie, our three year old, stroppy as usual; Martha, six, floated around; Ed, eight, was loud in his disarmingly exuberant attitude towards life in general. Roger and I enjoyed the [...]

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Links: Advice From The Masters

January 21, 2012

We all know that most advice columns are more about entertaining readers than about giving useful, logical counsel, and that’s fine, but, believe it or not, sometimes those two things can exist symbiotically.  Advice columns have gone from exclusively being the domain of prim and prudish agony aunts to giving realistic, down-and-dirty real-talk answers.  The [...]

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