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Prescription for heartache
With close to 2 million Americans dependent on or abusing prescription painkillers, a growing number of families are redefining their notions of what a drug addict looks like. “The person with t...
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Associated Press A baby looks at a monitor while wearing a band that contains a little magnet that the head-tracker, under the monitor, uses to determine head position, which in turn enables the eye tracker to find the eye and the pupil. New research suggests babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds -- they're lip-readers, too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables and eventually into that first "mama" or "dada."
Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk
WASHINGTON — Babies don’t learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they’re lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby’s babbling gradually changes fro...
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US wants effective Alzheimer’s treatment by 2025
 WASHINGTON — The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer’s disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025. The Obama...
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How to … avoid unsatisfying snacks
A low-calorie snack can backfire if it doesn’t fill you up, nutritionists say. “It’s more important to choose something that will satisfy longer than to go for a snack simply because it may be lowe...
Jan 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whooping cough returns as vaccine is modified
Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. — mostly babies and toddlers — were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against “this menace,” as one newspaper called it, were intro...
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Why we’re fat: Simple question with many complex answers
ORLANDO, Fla. — What’s making Americans so fat? Many think the answer is that we eat too much and don’t exercise enough, but the reasons are more numerous and complex, say obesity researchers. A...
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Study: Statins linked with small diabetes risk
WASHINGTON ­— A new side effect seems to be emerging for those cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs called statins: They may increase some people’s chances of developing Type 2 diabetes. A study pu...
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How to help aging parents
For more than a year, Alice Mazmanian has been happy at Silverado Senior Living in Costa Mesa, Calif. At least, Mazmanian, who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease, seems happy — and that’s what counts...
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ALAN REED | The Sun Lisa Houston, a radiography technician, performs a bone density scan on Candy Tallent at Lourdes Women's Center. Vitamin D deficiency can promote osteoporosis as it is the substance that allows bones to absorb the building-block mineral calcium. Houston said patients who take supplemental vitamin D often return for follow-up scans with substantially stronger bones.
Vitamin D: It does a body good
If you’re feeling down in the winter, spending life indoors or under a coat, then you may be needing an extra boost of vitamin D. Dr. Kathryn Glass, a family medicine physician at Mercy Primary ...
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Study: People aware of poor decisions when they’re drunk
A new study says that people who commit blunders while under the influence of alcohol know they’re doing it; they just don’t care. This means buzzed or drunken people who engage in embarrassing ...
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