Health and Fitness
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Evaluating health of preemiesNov 01, 2010 4:05 pm - Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting health problems in premature babies that they say is much more reliable than the standard Apgar sc...
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Vitamin D invaluable to good healthOct 31, 2010 2:49 pm - Ten years ago, few knew about vitamin D. It was a mystery and had something to do with sunlight. Today, it seems that every newspaper, magazine and journal has at least ...
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Exercise while commutingOct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - There are commutes that are walkable, commutes that are runnable, commutes that are bikeable and then there's my commute: 40 miles each way from Baltimore to downtown W...
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Crackdown on chelation therapy drugsOct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - WASHINGTON — Federal health officials have announced a crackdown on a controversial therapy widely hawked on the Internet and elsewhere as an alternative treatment for c...
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Chest first, then breaths for CPROct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - DALLAS — New guidelines switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts “the simplest ...
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Cloudy vision may be sign of Fuchs' dystrophyOct 24, 2010 12:09 pm - Q. My mother-in-law is 70 years old. She never had a need to see an eye doctor until last week, when she scratched her eye. She found a local ophthalmologist who tol...
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Standing is the new sitting in officesOct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - Some people can't stand working. Mark Ramirez works standing. He is not a waiter or a factory worker. He is a senior executive at AOL. Ramirez could, if he wanted, curl ...
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Be afraid of candy nutrition labelsOct 26, 2010 3:09 pm - Even if you don't go trick-or-treating, it's hard to avoid Halloween candy this time of year. For those of us who aim to eat healthfully, there are three basic approache...
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Lung taste receptors may improve asthma treatmentOct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - WASHINGTON — The ability to taste isn't limited to the mouth, and researchers say that discovery might one day lead to better treatments for diseases such as asthma. It ...
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Schaumburg salon raises money to fight cancerOct 23, 2010 1:01 am - Avici Salon, 1043 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg, will be hosting a fundraising event 11 a.m. t 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness. Many co...