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Women taking tablets to protect their bones from osteoporosis could be at risk of serious jaw damage, claim researchers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)

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Daily Post - January 01, 2009 DECIDING to turn over a new leaf in the New Year could actually do you more harm than good, a mental health charity said today. Mind urged people not to feel they m...

New research confirms that the more sweets you eat the more likely it is that your tongue’s sweet sensors are disturbed, causing you to eat even greater amounts of sweets just to get a satisfied sweet sensation. Unfortunately, this craving for sweet pleasure is accompanied by eating too many calories in general and thus weight gain is likely.We have known for some time that there are leptin receptors on your tongue that go numb to the sweet taste. Thus, the problem of general leptin resistance, tongue-specific leptin resistance, and extra sweet food consumption go hand-in-glove. It is important to understand that these are powerful subconscious and misguided cravings that lock in extra calorie consumption that is adverse to your health.Another study also shows that your gut senses the taste of sweets just like your tongue, which triggers the initial and appropriate release of insulin along with a satiety signal called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).

A very large study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that routine use of antibiotics in Intensive care units reduces the risk of death. The study comes from the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, and included six thousand Dutch patients from thirteen hospitals.The patients were expected to either spend three days in the ICU, or be on a ventilator (breathing machine) for two days, taking place between 2004 and 2006.read more

As new research emerges, public opinion of osteoporosis drugs may be at stake. (Source: ABC News: Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants born with a congenital heart defect that goes uncorrected have a much greater risk of dying than their counterparts who have the heart defect corrected, suggest results of a new study.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Home-based rehabilitation is no worse than hospital-based programs for helping patients get better after a heart attack or surgery to clear blocked heart arteries, and may be more accessible for patients, research from the UK shows.

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