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Well: Vegan Recipes for Health
Want to kick off a new year of healthful eating? Start with these five delicious vegan meals from Martha Rose Shulman.
Hillary Clinton Is Discharged From Hospital After Blood Clot
Doctors said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a full recovery after being treated for several days for a blood clot in a vein in her head.
Can diet beat depression?
Research into diet and depression should follow the model of studies into diet and cardiovascular risk. So argue experts in a recent opinion piece.
Seven days: 3 January 2013
The week in science: Shootings set back polio vaccination in Pakistan; FDA approves first medicine for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; and Italian Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini dies.Nature 493 8 doi: 10.1038/493008a
Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs
Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching [...]
Ruthless Smuggling Rings Put Rhinos in Cross Hairs
Driven by a belief that ground-up rhino horns can cure cancer and other ills, the horn rush has exploded into a worldwide criminal enterprise, drawing in a surreal cast of...
Employers Must Offer Family Health Care, Affordable or Not, Administration Says
The Obama administration said Monday that employers must offer health insurance to employees and their children, but will not be subject to any penalties if family coverage is unaffordable to...
U.S. Birthrate Dips, Especially for Hispanics
The national birthrate is now about half what it was during the late 1950s, as Hispanic women, who have generally had the highest fertility rates in the country, are choosing...
Letters: Race and Medicine (2 Letters)
Letters to the editor about the heart drug BiDil, independence for the elderly and recovery after trauma.
F.D.A. Approves Sirturo, a New Tuberculosis Drug
The drug, to be called Sirturo, was discovered by scientists at Janssen, the pharmaceuticals unit of Johnson & Johnson, and is the first in a new class of drugs that...
Well: Managing Diabetes, Then Told of Cancer
Cancer and diabetes are two leading killers in America, and while each can be a devastating diagnosis, researchers are finding that the two often occur together.
Late-life depression associated with prevalent mild cognitive impairment, increased risk of dementia
Depression in a group of U.S. Medicare recipients ages 65 years and older appears to be associated with prevalent mild cognitive impairment and an increased risk of dementia.
Differences in generic pill characteristics may lead to interruptions in essential medication use
Researchers have found that some patients who receive generic drugs that vary in their color are over 50 percent more likely to stop taking the drug, leading to potentially important...
How the AP analyzed football players' weight gain
For a sport with rabid fans, historic rivalries and trivia buffs, college football does not have a single, official repository of historic rosters. Each school prints its own rosters and...
Global Update: Smoking Cuts H.I.V. Patients’ Lives More Than Virus, Study Says
A Danish study of almost 3,000 H.I.V. patients also found that the risk of early death from cancer or heart disease was much higher among infected smokers than among noninfected...
Vital Signs: C-Reactive Protein Linked to Depression and Stress
Danish researchers found that the C-reactive protein, a byproduct of inflammation in the body, was associated with a greater risk of psychological stress and clinical depression.
Steroids loom in major-college football
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight - 30 pounds or more...
Life expectancy up in B.C., cancer remains leading cause of death
British Columbia's vital statistics report for 2011 says residents of the province continue to live longer than anywhere else in Canada, although cancer remains the leading cause of death.
Illinois Sen. Kirk to return a year after stroke
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to go back to work in Washington this week, nearly a year after suffering a major stroke....
Year in review: Bizarre viral stories of 2012
From Italian frescos to Olive Garden reviews, these jaw-dropping stories caught our attention over the last year
Palestinians say 9 dead from swine flu outbreak
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- A Palestinian health official says an outbreak swine flu has killed nine people....
Benefits of higher oxygen, breathing device persist after infancy
By the time they reached toddlerhood, very preterm infants originally treated with higher oxygen levels continued to show benefits when [...]
Vomiting Larry battles "Ferrari of the virus world"
LONDON (Reuters) - Poor Larry isn't looking too good. He's pale and clammy and he's been projectile vomiting over and over again while his carers just stand by and watch.
Have a break … the secrets of chocolate | Athene Donald
Originally much prized by the Aztecs in the form of a bitter drink, chocolate has a long history of giving pleasure, achievable only by sophisticated processing of an irritatingly variable raw productHad a...
This Is Not A Rainforest!
This is not a rainforest! A story wherein I reveal resistant and deliberate ignorance. read more
How prawn farms in Senegal are combating schistosomiasis | Mark Tran
Prawns bred in a dammed river basin are helping to prevent the spread of the disease and provide a livelihood for localsIn the 1980s, the Diama dam was built at the estuary...
Cough Syrup Suspected to Have Killed 33 in Pakistan
Tests show the victims’ stomachs contained a synthetic morphine derivative used in cough syrup that can have mind-altering effects if consumed in large quantities, an official said.
52 ways to leave your blubber
Making a resolution to be healthier in 2013? Here's a year's worth of tips for taking small steps to a svelte goal. This is the year you will resolve to...