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• Epsom Salt for Tomato Blight Control

  
  The Gardener's Rake — Authority: 112
  Our area was hit very hard with tomato blight. Almost everyone lost their entire tomato crop. I believe the reason for this was our cold rainy summer and nights that were chilly. It just put to much stress on the plants. photo credit: kthread And the heavy rain created sickly plants that were the ...
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• Spending Less on Food, Spending More on Health Care

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  As the health-care bill passes through Congress, one wonders about an issue that has been left out of discussions.  No, not abortion.  Food.  How much is what we eat linked to what we spend on health care? First, consider the costs. …
  17 hours ago

• Weight Loss Surgery News – November 27, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 424
  Watch this week’s WLS News to hear an encouraging report about 50 obese teenagers who underwent Lap-Band surgery–and how their lives have changed. We’ll also tell you how probiotics can affect weight loss, share details about a possible link between teenage obesity and multiple sclerosis, and explain what a ...
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• Op-Ed Contributor: What’s Your Underlying Condition?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  When an epidemic like the swine flu strikes, each one of us wants to know our personal risk for illness, and genetics may tell us why H1N1 hits some people so badly.
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• IBS: What causes it?

  
  Fine Tuning Health — Authority: 442
  The cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome is still unknown. Some experts think IBS is a Motility Disorder.  An oversensitive or hyperactive gut is another possible cause of IBS. and the gut will react to changes influenced by food, hormones and stress. Typically the bowel habit in IBS becomes chaotic. There is no ...
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• Tracking H1N1 as Americans Prepare for Holiday Travel

  
  On The Scene — Authority: 519
  Here at the FOX News bureau in Atlanta, we’re awaiting a 12 PM Eastern media briefing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases is scheduled to update reporters on the latest H1N1 activity and the ...
  2 days ago

• Obesity and Health Care Spending

  
  Economix — Authority: 734
  Side-by-side maps of obesity rates and Medicare reimbursement expenditures around the country.
  3 days ago

• Alarming trend -- antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates appear to be declining, in part because only half of the patients know they are infected.
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• Sexually Transmitted Infections Common In Teen Girls; Many Infected Soon After Sexual Debut

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  In a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, scientists found roughly one in four girls ages 14 to 19 had one of five common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and many were infected soon after their first sexual experience. The study, “Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among ...
  3 days ago

• Point-of-Care Testing Becomes Crucial As STD Cases Among Younger Set Continue To Rise

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, officials at the Centers for Disease Control recently reported. The CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new STD infections occur each year. Approximately half of them occur in young people between 15 to ...
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• Smoking While Pregnant, Lead Exposure Linked to ADHD

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 552
  Mothers who smoke while pregnant more than double the risk of having a child who will be later diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADHD). The new study also estimated that if pregnant women stopped smoking, up to one-fifth of children could avoid an eventual ADHD diagnosis. The risk of ADHD is even higher if ...
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• Best of the Web 11/23: Suicides On the Rise, U.S. Debt Service C...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  StreetInsider.com Best of the Web: Following the worst recession in decades, early data suggests the number of suicides in the U.S. are rising . "Official data on suicides in the U.S. lag, and a 2008 national tally isnt yet available. In 2007, there were 33,185 suicides, according to preliminary estimates from ...
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• Exposure to lead, tobacco smoke raises risk of ADHD

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  CINCINNATI -- Children exposed prenatally to tobacco smoke and during childhood to lead face a particularly high risk for ADHD, according to research done at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center.
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• The Dean’s Swine Flu Profit Storm is on Its Way

  
  CollegeStock - The Dean of College Stocks — Authority: 140
  The Dean believes Swine Flu Frenzy will carry well into flu season and, with companies like Novartis (NYSE: NVS), GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), Sanofi-Pasteur (NYSE: SNY) and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: BCRX) contracted to produce millions of vaccine doses, there’s billions in profits to be made.The Dean thinks ...
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• Medical policy innovation, reduces blindness by a third

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 134
  River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nearly One-Third In At-Risk Populations In Six Countries Progress Represents a Major Step toward the Goal of Interrupting Transmission of River Blindness in the Americas by 2012 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A regional initiative launched in the 1990s ...
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• Exposure to lead, tobacco smoke ups ADHD risk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): A new research conducted at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center suggests that children’s exposure to tobacco smoke while still in the mother’s womb and lead during childhood can significantly raise the risk of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).“Tobacco and ...
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• Live H1N1 Briefing for Bloggers and Our Readers Today

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 527
  Join the live Webcast to learn detailed information about influenza prevention and treatment, warning signs for parents, anti-viral medications, and vaccinations. A question and answer session will provide the opportunity to engage directly with leading communication and public health experts, including: Kathleen ...
  5 days ago

• ADHD Risk Increases With Exposure To Lead, Tobacco

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Editor Cincinatti, OH (AHN) - A newly released study finds children exposed prenatally to tobacco smoke and during childhood to lead face a particularly high risk for ADHD The study estimates that up to 35 percent of ADHD cases in children between the ages of 8 and 15 could be reduced by ...
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• How To Keep Yourself from Being Infected With Swine Flu

  
  Health Tips — Authority: 131
  How To Keep Yourself from Being Infected With Swine Flu Swine flu is an illness which derives its name from a virus that infects pigs. While the virus cannot affect people, they are likely to get an infection from time to time. The virus is communicable and can be transmitted from one person to another. The ...
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• Swine flu type found in North Carolina develops resistance to Tamiflu

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 534
  Austin, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — The dreaded swine flu is getting smarter and smarter meaning the medical community has to keep working on ways to battle the strand that has sickened thousands from coast to coast. Federal health officials confirm that four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a strand ...
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