| 06/28/2007 - Down...Not Out |
| Fatigue is especially challenging for cancer patients who often find that neither exercise nor rest alleviates the problem. So who could blame them for turning to a drug such as Procrit, which promises to help them find the strength they need? |
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| 06/28/2007 - No Nursing Home for Me |
| If you're thinking about your future and wondering just how you'll manage for yourself when you're elderly, you might get a smile (and some ideas) from this item that a friend recently sent me: |
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| 06/27/2007 - Friend to Friend |
| Women, tell your friends: If you're past menopause and diagnosed with breast cancer, chances are that chemotherapy will have little or no effect on the cancer. |
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| 06/27/2007 - More than 26 million people worldwide are currently living with Alzheimer's disease. |
| Over the next 40 years that number is expected to jump to more than 100 million. This is the conclusion of Johns Hopkins University researchers who presented their findings at a recent Alzheimer's Association conference. |
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| 06/26/2007 - Ahead in the Count |
| Research has revealed the significant role inflammation plays in the development of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries). |
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| 06/26/2007 - An HSI member named Ron asks: "Is there any remedy for loss of some kidney function? |
| What supplements help kidney health?" |
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| 06/25/2007 - Literary Lions |
| If your doctor says, "Lyme disease," here's your first question: "Are you an LLMD?" |
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| 06/25/2007 - Looking for ways to cut your calorie intake? |
| Eat celery and apples. The net calories of these whole foods is actually negative because celery and apples deliver fewer calories than the calories you burn by eating them. |
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| 06/21/2007 - The Droids You're Looking For |
| Remember in the very first Star Wars when Obi Wan Kenobi used his Jedi mind trick? He waved his hand and told a storm trooper, "These are not the droids you're looking for." |
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| 06/21/2007 - Can a high intake of omega-3 fatty acids help manage blood pressure? |
| According to a new study, the answer is yes - it can help a little. But a little goes a long way when it comes to blood pressure. |
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| 06/20/2007 - Seed of Hope |
| If you know someone with prostate cancer, this is an e-Alert you MUST share with him. It just might make a big difference in his chance of survival. |
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| 06/20/2007 - Shocking. And sad. |
| That's the only way to describe the results of a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. |
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| 06/19/2007 - Say Hello to Your Little Friends |
| About 300 years ago, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope, peered into the eyepiece of his invention and discovered a previously invisible population of creatures that live among us: dust mites. |
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| 06/19/2007 - Hard to Believe |
| Here's an astonishing story that would be hard to believe, but knowing what we know about drug companies it's all too believable. |
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| 06/18/2007 - Dangerous Detour |
| The most common type of bariatric surgery is gastric bypass, the procedure that dramatically decreases the size of the stomach and reroutes digestion to the small intestine. |
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| 06/18/2007 - Cows Producing Skimmed Milk? |
| According to scientists in New Zealand, we're just five years away from cows that will produce skimmed milk. That's right - skim - straight out of the cow. |
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| 06/14/2007 - The Fool's Gold Standard |
| What did James Joyce, Lorne Greene, and Alfred Nobel all have in common? Each of them suffered from severe health problems associated with gastric ulcers. |
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| 06/14/2007 - Do you enjoy a scary story? |
| If so, you'll want to grab a recent back issue of Time magazine (5/24/07) in which Sanjay Gupta, M.D., tells the horrifying tale of the dangerous herbal supplements! |
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| 06/13/2007 - Officials Say the Darndest Things! |
| Remember on Art Linkletter's old daytime show when he would put simple questions to a panel of kids and they would respond with adorable howlers? |
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| 06/13/2007 - "Reality TV Goes Too Far" |
| That was the title of an e-mail sent to me by Michele Cagan who writes the "HSI On the Spot" blog. Michele came across a news item that really is hard to believe. Here's her take on it... |
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| 06/12/2007 - Your Rhythm Section |
| You don't need to know a single thing about heart health to know that you don't want to see the word "abnormal" in a sentence about heart rhythm. |
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| 06/12/2007 - Gender-specific knee surgery? |
| When I first heard it, I thought it was a joke: "Gender-specific knee surgery." I mean, I knew boys and girls were different, but knees weren't one of the parts my mom taught me! |
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| 06/11/2007 - Unexpected Surprise |
| No one will be surprised to learn that firefighters have much riskier jobs than office workers. |
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| 06/11/2007 - Yogurt for Bad Breath? |
| Bad breath may be reduced by eating a little yogurt every day, according to a Japanese study. But you need to be sure it's the right kind of yogurt. |
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| 06/07/2007 - Two Piece Combo |
| Combine calcium with vitamin D and what do you get? Healthy bones. |
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| 06/07/2007 - "Secret Ingredient" Revisited |
| If you fed something to an animal and the animal became ill, would you feel comfortable eating the same thing? |
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| 06/06/2007 - Cattle Logic |
| Here's a good one. A type of Japanese cattle known as Akaushi is now being raised in Texas. According to a television report from KEYE TV in Austin, these cattle are "genetically geared to produce conjugated linoleic acid or CLA." |
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| 06/06/2007 - Questions About Statins |
| For anyone who's taking a cholesterol-lowering statin drug (or for anyone you know who might be taking one), here's a warning sent to us by an HSI member named Mary: |
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| 06/05/2007 - All in the Family |
| I recently lost a good friend who died of complications related to ovarian cancer. She's survived by her husband who fortunately has the support and comfort of three adult daughters. |
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| 06/05/2007 - Here's something you don't hear too often: To stay healthy, you should gain a little weight. |
| But that doesn't go for everyone, of course. Researchers at the University of California Irvine (UCI) compared body mass index (BMI) and mortality rates for more than 13,000 subjects over the age of 80 living in a retirement community. |
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| 06/04/2007 - The Last Word |
| Lycopene does not prevent prostate cancer. That's what the evening news anchor told me. So I checked out the source of this information and found five excellent reasons to be angry about another half-baked study. |
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| 06/04/2007 - Remember Miles Monroe? |
| He was the owner of the Happy Carrot health food store who went into the hospital for an operation in 1973, but was mistakenly sent to a cryogenic unit where he was frozen. |
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