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Health & Wellness News tagged with illness

YouTube - Announcing the Winner of the Health Reform Video Challenge   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, babies, health, healthcare, illness, Health Reform Video Challenge, Health Reform )

Kelli
- 2 days ago - youtube.com
Help put the final ad on the air:After nearly 1,000 submissions, 20 amazing finalists, and more than 3 million views, Organizing for America supporters and a panel of experts have picked the winner of the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge.
2 comments
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.
10 comments
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.
3 comments
Heart Patients Lacking Vitamin D More Likely to Be Depressed
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, research )

Cal
- 3 days ago - cnn.com
People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American H
3 comments
Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - lime.com
Maybe we should add cranberries to the long list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Cranberries -- a staple food source with settlers and Native Americans in the northeast -- were valued for their thick skins, allowing them to surv
2 comments
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Petition, warning, protection, risks, humans, illness, health, food, government, environment, children, family, diet, ethics )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - change.org
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
6 comments
Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, treatment, protection, medicine, humans, illness, health, family, death, children, babies, prevention )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - act.credoaction.com
"We know what happens when women are denied access to reproductive health care including abortion. And we can't go back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions. Reconsider your vote on the Stupak Amendment. Tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
8 comments
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 .....
23 comments
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
6 comments
Best Balsamic Vinegars - Vinegars Laced With Lead
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, protection, risks, warning )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - thedailygreen.com
In a tradition dating back to medieval times, growers in Modena, Italy, are deep into the grape harvest, the first step in making their famed balsamic vinegar.Cooking the trebianno and lambrusco grapes releases rich juice that is then stored in vintage
3 comments
PLEASE Stand Up for Women's Reproductive Health and Choice, President Obama
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, prevention, medicine, humans, interesting, illness, health, ethics, children, protection )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - change.org
WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE TO PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT SERVES WOMEN? LEADERSHIP. Despite hundreds of thousands of voters like you and me who called on members of the House of Representatives to include women's health care in health car
4 comments
Electrovestibulography - New Technique To Diagnose Mental Illness
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, news, treatment, science, mental, depression )

FatJ
- 11 days ago - todaymedic.com
More great news to follow as a recent report has revealed that mental illness or problems like schizophrenia and depression could be easily diagnosed by plugging some electrode into the person's ear ......
8 comments
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
5 comments
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
5 comments
Campbell's Soup: Stop Poisoning Our Food!- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, humans, illness, health, food, family, diet, children, nutrition, safety )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - change.org
Consumer Reports has found that major canned food companies including Campbell's Soup are using cans that leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into food. BPA is linked to many health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, height
11 comments
 
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