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Amazon Monday, September 14, 2009Ice cream may target the brain before your hips, UT Southwestern study suggests(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night's football game.
Eurekalert.org Monday, September 14, 2009Information about the use and accuracy of breast cancer tests is lacking, study finds(American Cancer Society) A new study finds that there is little information available about the use of new testing technologies and targeted therapies in breast cancer, specifically the anti-cancer drug trastuzumab.
Eurekalert.org Monday, September 14, 2009Depression increases cancer patients' risk of dying(American Cancer Society) A new review finds depression can affect a cancer patient's likelihood of survival, highlighting the need for systematic screening of psychological distress and subsequent treatments.
Eurekalert.org Monday, September 14, 2009Parents weigh the risk of vaccinating children for H1N1Some doctors decry the decision of not getting the shot, but acknowledge that autism fears -- as well as immunity issues -- are in play. Tammy Reed, the 28-year-old mother of a toddler, is not given to belief in conspiracy theories and is not the type to be rattled by the phrase "pandemic flu." The Menifee, Calif., resident is the kind of mom who gathers a good deal of her medical intelligence on government websites, trusts a friend who is a nurse practitioner and is raising her bright, strong-willed daughter with all the confidence of a former nanny and the second-born in a
family of six.
LA Times Monday, September 14, 2009Vaccine skepticism is in the airWith the healthcare debate storming on, a study on attitudes over the flu vaccine shows a clear distrust in government. For some, such as blacks and immigrants, suspicions have deep roots. The nation's political crosscurrents appear to have created vaccine skeptics of many stripes.
LA Times Monday, September 14, 2009Questions remain in H1N1 vaccine distributionPregnant women and children 6 months to 4 years old top the list. Distribution specifics are in flux. As the
united states gears up for one of the largest vaccination programs ever conducted, the broad outlines of the campaign to vaccinate
nearly 100 million Americans against pandemic H1N1 influenza virus by Christmas are beginning to fall into place.
LA Times Monday, September 14, 2009'End organ transplant death row'THE system of organ donation should be changed to save the lives of thousands of people living on "an invisible death row", an Emmy award-winning writer said yesterday
Scotsman Monday, September 14, 2009'I am heading for a crisis and so is the system. Patient numbers are growing'FOR seven months now, I have been living under a death threat. Outwardly, my life appears fine: I have a busy
family life with three children at primary school; I've just
Scotsman Monday, September 14, 2009Health watchdog defends decision to let E coli farm remain openTHE Health Protection Agency has defended its decision to allow a farm at the centre of an E coli outbreak to remain open despite children falling ill.
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