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Can Flying Cause Blood Clots?

Health & Fitness – Did you know if you travel by plane frequently, are on birth control or have cancer, you are at risk of getting a blood clot?

Submitted and Voted for on June 24, 2008 04:09pm

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Climbing the Corporate Ladder of Brain Fitness

Health & Fitness – Does your job have anything to do with your odds of getting Alzheimer's disease down the road? Studies have come out recently linking intellectually challenging careers to reduced risk of dementia. Other studies link education level to cognitive health in later years. Overall, people with more education have lower rates of Alzheimer's disease than

Submitted and Voted for on June 24, 2008 04:08pm

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Are Kid's Growing Bellies Increasing Their Odds of Alzheimer's?

Health & Fitness – The title question may be a bit of a stretch, but you only need to connect a couple of research dots to get from childhood obesity to reduced brain fitness in older age.

Submitted and Voted for on June 24, 2008 04:07pm

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Ted Kennedy has glioma brain tumor

Health & Fitness – Doctors treating U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy at Massachusetts General Hospital report he has a malignant glioma brain tumor. Kennedy was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family's compound at Hyannisport, Mass.

Submitted and Voted for on May 20, 2008 02:00pm

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Google launches Google Health

Health & Fitness – he Internet's leading search firm, Google, has become a depository for Web search, email, photos and videos, and now the search giant wants something much more personal: your health records. After a year and a half since the first announcement, Google finally launched its much talked about Google Health.

Submitted and Voted for on May 20, 2008 01:21am

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Regular prostate-specific antigen screening may be discontinued in certain elderly populations

Health & Fitness – Men aged 75-80 with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels less than 3 ng/ml may be able to discontinue their regular prostate cancer screenings, according to new research presented today during the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA).

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 04:36pm

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Retired firefighters could be at increased risk for developing bladder cancer

Health & Fitness – A new study presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) suggests that firefighters may be at an increased risk of developing transitional cell carcinoma (TCC, or bladder cancer) and should be considered for routine annual screening.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 04:34pm

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Lower urinary tract symptoms place eldery men at risk for falls

Health & Fitness – A greater likelihood of falling may be linked to lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in elderly men.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 04:30pm

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Race, family history or baseline PSA: Which best predicts prostate cancer risk?

Health & Fitness – African-American men with family histories of prostate cancer could benefit from a baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA) reading to determine their probability of developing the disease.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 04:22pm

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Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on 25 years of HIV

Health & Fitness – Dr. Fauci writes, "ââ;¬Â¦we must learn from our mis-steps, build on our successes in treatment and prevention, and renew our commitment to developing the truly transforming tools that will one day put this scourge behind us."

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 04:18pm

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Obesity and unhealthy lifestyles linked to more complex urinary problems

Health & Fitness – eople who are obese and lead unhealthy lifestyles are more likely to suffer from a larger number of urinary problems, according to a population-based study of more than 5,000 men and women.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 04:15pm

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End-stage dementia patients deserve the same access to palliative care as people with cancer

Health & Fitness – There is an urgent need to improve end-of-life care for older people in the final stages of dementia, according to an international review published in the May issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 02:12pm

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Are anxiety disorders all in the mind?

Health & Fitness – Researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction.

Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 02:08pm

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Kids think eyeglasses make other kids look smart

Health & Fitness – Want people to think you are smarter than you really are? Wear eyeglasses!

Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 02:04pm

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Got sugar? Skeletal muscle development responds to nutrient availability

Health & Fitness – A new study finds that restricted nutrient availability prevents muscle stem cells from growing into mature muscle cells. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Developmental Cell, provides exciting new information about how developing muscle cells sense and respond to nutrient levels.

Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 02:00pm