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Health & Wellness News tagged with disease

MYTHBUSTERS: Cold Weather Won't Make You Sick
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, EDUCATION, research, humans, disease, investigation, family, protection, news, study, prevention )

Cal
- 1 day ago - aarpmagazine.org
Fresh studies of scientific research are busting all those health myths you grew up with
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Vaccines on Horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, Herpes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, vaccines, disease, illness, humans, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MARIETTA, Pa. - Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
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New Mammogram Advice Raises Questions, Concerns
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, mammograms, protection, prevention, disease, illness, death, safety, study, treatment, warning )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at all.
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WHO Report Highlights Gender Disparities, Cites AIDS as Leading Cause of Women's Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, disease, health, risks, WHO, HIV, healthcare )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - nationalpartnership.org
November 11, 2009 -- Women around the world are "denied a chance to develop their full human potential" because of a lack of essential health care throughout their lives, according to a World Health Organization report released Monday, Reuters report
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Give Victims of Childhood Cancer and Leukemia Hope This Holiday Season - The Petition Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, Leukemia, disease, research, treatment, pediatric cancer, St. Jude, acute myeloid leukemia, children, protection, safety, health, healthcare )

Kelli
- 5 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
As the 2009 holiday season approaches, pledge to give the greatest gift of all - hope for children like Braden with cancer and other deadly diseases! Pledge to participate in the sixth annual Thanks and Giving® campaign and to share this pledge
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New Cancer Treatment Breakthrough Protect Healthy Cells From Radiotherapy
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, cancer, radiotherapy, illness, disease, research, science, news )

FatJ
- 7 days ago - todaymedic.com
Researchers are working on a new form of cancer treatment that will most likely become available within 5 years. The treatment works on healthy cells by modifying the function of gene to make the cells immune from huge dose of radiation .....
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CDC: 4,000 U.S. Deaths By Swine Flu
Health & Wellness  (tags: swine flu, swine flu vaccine, healthcare, health, death, disease, humans, medicine, nutrition, news )

Cal
- 8 days ago - bradenton.com
Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu -- about four times the estimate they've been using.
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Childhood Scurvy Cases on Rise in England
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
Scurvy is one of those diseases of legend, conjuring up images of pirates and explorers of the sea. When I think of scurvy, I still recall an educational video shown in elementary school of sailors falling ill from a lack of vitamin C. Unfortunately for
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Big Insurance Kills - Please Take Action ! Get Free Bumper Sticker!
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, death, disease, government, big insurance co )

Tierney
- 8 days ago - biginsurancekills.com
Health insurance reform is about more than profits and deficits. It's about real people who need help. I demand the CEOs of the three largest insurance companies sit down with the people they've hurt, stop dropping our coverage, stop denying us care, and
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8-Year-Old Girl Happy With Chance at Being Normal
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, lymphoblastic leukemia, chemotherapy, Radiation treatment, disease, family, health, healthcare, surgery, infection, eye, cancer of blood-forming tissues, bone marrow )

Kelli
- 11 days ago - azcentral.com
Amber was not yet 2 when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She was 5 when the disease came back. Amber underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Her immune system was knocked out, and her bone marrow had to be replaced.
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Superfood or Seriously Scary? The Truth About Soy
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, food, health, humans, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - divinecaroline.com
My best friend, Alex, was sixteen when she decided to stop eating meat. Her love of animals and her distaste for the sinewy feeling of meat between her teeth left her seeking vegetarian alternatives to her old steak and chicken staples. When she discovere
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Stevia: This Sugar Substitute Is Sweet and Healthy
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Imagine an herb that's much sweeter than sugar, but almost calorie-free. Imagine that it does not cause the after-eating spike in blood sugar that aggravates diabetes. Imagine that it's actually good for you, reducing blood sugar and blood pressure, and b
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H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Fabricated to Create Hysteria, Boost Demand?
Health & Wellness  (tags: flu, swine flu, H1N1, vaccine, tactics, ethics, interesting, health, drugs, disease )

Elena
- 13 days ago - naturalnews.com
NaturalNews) There's a fascinating book by author Robert Cialdini called Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion.
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Food Industry Dictates Nutrition Policy
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, health, Factory Farms, diet, disease, risks, safety )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
New York (CNN) -- Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health, most obviously the now-widely recognized relat
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Health Ills Abound as Farm Animal Runoff Fouls Wells, Laws Neither Applied or Enforced
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, safety, health, disease, risks, treatment, food )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
MORRISON, Wis. - All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spr
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