Posts from — July 2008
Resident Fights Fast-Food Restaurant - WISN.com
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Resident Fights Fast-Food Restaurant
WISN.com - 1 hour ago Battling a high obesity rate, Los Angeles officials have banned fast-food expansion in one area of town. Now, Milwaukee city leaders are being confronted with a similar situation on the north side. Los Angeles City Council passes fast-food ban Reuters Fast-food moratorium is meddling Los Angeles Times Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - The Associated Press - Santa Cruz Sentinel - Detroit Free Press all 1,047 news articles |
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Flu Vaccine Less Helpful to Seniors - WebMD
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Flu Vaccine Less Helpful to Seniors
WebMD - 1 hour ago By Daniel J. DeNoon July 31, 2008 — Flu vaccines offer seniors far less pneumonia protection than was thought, a carefully designed study shows. Flu Vaccine Doesn't Protect Seniors From Pneumonia Forbes Flu Shot Fails to Stem Pneumonia in Older Patients, Study Says Bloomberg Seattle Post Intelligencer - DG News - MedPage Today - EurekAlert (press release) all 8 news articles |
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Texting — the modern way to run with scissors? - Los Angeles Times
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Texting — the modern way to run with scissors?
Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago This week, the American College of Emergency Physicians issued an alert about the dangers of … text messaging. Yes, text messaging. ER Doctors Give Heads-Up To Distracted Text Messagers MarketWatch Warning: Texting Can Kill You! ktla 5 KPAX-TV - Boston Channel.com - ABC News - Arizona Republic all 23 news articles |
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Microbe Diet Key To Carbon Dioxide Release - Science Daily (press release)
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Microbe Diet Key To Carbon Dioxide Release
Science Daily (press release) - 3 hours ago ScienceDaily (July 31, 2008) — As microbes in the soil break down fallen plant matter, a diet "balanced" in nutrients appears to help control soil fertility … |
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Microbe Diet Key To Carbon Dioxide Release - Science Daily (press release)
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Microbe Diet Key To Carbon Dioxide Release
Science Daily (press release) - 59 minutes ago ScienceDaily (July 31, 2008) — As microbes in the soil break down fallen plant matter, a diet "balanced" in nutrients appears to help control soil fertility … |
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Speed Raisies Risks for Alzheimer’s Research - Wall Street Journal Blogs
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Speed Raisies Risks for Alzheimer’s Research
Wall Street Journal Blogs - 40 minutes ago Drugmakers hurrying experimental Alzheimer’s drugs into late-stage testing may be undermining their ultimate chance at success. The halting progress in the race to develop new Alzheimer’s drugs was on display at the International Conference on … UPDATE: Wyeth, Elan Shares Fall On Alzheimer's Study Questions CNNMoney.com Wyeth, Elan Fall on Doubts Raised by Alzheimer's Test (Update1) Bloomberg Motley Fool - New York Times - BusinessWeek all 292 news articles |
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Randy Pausch - TIME
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Randy Pausch
TIME - 5 hours ago There were times when Randy Pausch's sheer exuberance, physical and spiritual, made it easy to imagine it would end some other way. The Truth Behind Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture' Christian Post Dying prof's 'Last Lecture' is a teaching moment for us all Chicago Sun-Times Explore Howard County - HemOncToday - Baxter Bulletin - Progress Index all 31 news articles |
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Drugs Offer Promise of Fitness Without Effort - New York Times
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Drugs Offer Promise of Fitness Without Effort
New York Times - 2 hours ago Cheryl Senter/AP By NICHOLAS WADE Can you enjoy the benefits of exercise without the pain of exertion? The answer may one day be yes - just take a pill that tricks the muscles into thinking they have been working out furiously. Scientists say they've found exercise in a pill Los Angeles Times Exercise in a Pill? Maybe WebMD Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York Daily News - The Associated Press - Gizmodo all 427 news articles |
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Gene Mutations Linked to Schizophrenia - MedPage Today
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Gene Mutations Linked to Schizophrenia
MedPage Today - 26 minutes ago By John Gever, Staff Writer, MedPage Today REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 31 — Certain rare genetic deletions substantially increased the risk of schizophrenia, according to two independent genomic studies. Gene-Hunters Find Hope and Hurdles in Schizophrenia Studies New York Times Schizophrenia Yields Some Genetic Secrets Washington Post Boston Globe - Reuters - BBC News - The Associated Press all 410 news articles |
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Cavalli to Dress Diet Coke - Women’s Wear Daily
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Cavalli to Dress Diet Coke
Women’s Wear Daily - 52 minutes ago By WWD Staff Diet Coke, or as they say in Italy, Coca Light, is getting a makeover just in time for women’s fashion week in Milan at the end of September. … |
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Genmab Leukemia Drug Shows Strong Results in Trial - Wall Street Journal
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Genmab Leukemia Drug Shows Strong Results in Trial
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago By JEANNE WHALEN Marking a rare success in the European biotech sector, Danish firm Genmab A/S said the most important drug in its pipeline has delivered strong results in a trial against a type of leukemia. UPDATE 1-Genmab, Glaxo cancer drug beats target in key test Reuters Genmab and GlaxoSmithKline Announce Positive Top-Line Results in … MarketWatch Forbes - Reuters all 27 news articles |
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Microbe diet key to carbon dioxide release - EurekAlert (press release)
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Microbe diet key to carbon dioxide release
EurekAlert (press release), DC - 1 hour ago DURHAM, NC –- As microbes in the soil break down fallen plant matter, a diet "balanced" in nutrients appears to help control soil fertility and the normal … |
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Alzheimer's Research Holds Promise - TIME
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Alzheimer's Research Holds Promise
TIME - 33 minutes ago When it comes to Alzheimer's disease, there hasn't been much to celebrate in recent years. Efforts to develop a vaccine against the brain disorder have stalled, and no drugs have been able to reverse the slow death of neurons that robs people of their … Marriage, the Secret Way to Forget about Alzheimer’s Risk eFluxMedia Being Single in Midlife Could Raise Risk for Dementia Later Washington Post United Press International - Chicago Sun-Times - Los Angeles Times - BBC News all 62 news articles |
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Personalized Stem Cells One Step Closer to Reality - ABC News
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Personalized Stem Cells One Step Closer to Reality
ABC News - 1 hour ago By RADHA CHITALE For the first time, scientists have proven that embryoniclike stem cells that are specific to both a person and to a disease can be manufactured using adult human cells. Nerve cells grown from new-style stem cells Reuters Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Motor Neurons in ALS Patients U.S. News & World Report Bloomberg - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - The Associated Press - TIME all 96 news articles |
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Abortion proposal sparks furious debate - Los Angeles Times
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Abortion proposal sparks furious debate
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago The furor kicked off by the Bush administration's draft of a new regulation that could restrict access to abortion and birth control is growing into a bitter debate pitting religious freedom against patients' rights. Treating the Pill as Abortion, Wall Street Journal Workers' Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights Washington Post dBTechno - Belleville News Democrat - Enews 2.0 - Columbus Free Press all 31 news articles |
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Mediterranean diet losing its appeal - New Zealand Herald
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Mediterranean diet losing its appeal
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 29 minutes ago By Peter Popham The traditional Mediterranean diet is increasingly being shunned by those who live in the region which gave birth to it. … |
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Louisiana State University Student Dies of Meningitis - FOXNews
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Louisiana State University Student Dies of Meningitis
FOXNews - 43 minutes ago BATON ROUGE, La. - University officials say a LSU student, who is not yet being identified, has died of meningitis. In a campus e-mail, interim Chancellor William Jenkins said there is no threat of an outbreak because the student lived off campus and … University student dies after contracting meningitis — 12:33 pm LSU The Reveille LSU student dies of meningitis The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com WBXH - LSU The Reveille - LSU The Reveille all 21 news articles |
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Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low- Fat … - The Common Voice
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Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low- Fat …
The Common Voice, SC - 9 hours ago The AHA diet recommended no more than 30% of calories from fat and less than 10% of that in saturated fat. The Mediterranean diet was moderate in fat (no … Zone Diet Success Stories Wanted For First Magazine Feature Story The Common Voice all 4 news articles |
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Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low- Fat … - The Common Voice
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Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low- Fat …
The Common Voice, SC - 43 minutes ago The AHA diet recommended no more than 30% of calories from fat and less than 10% of that in saturated fat. The Mediterranean diet was moderate in fat (no … |
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Fat around the heart worse than body fat - United Press International
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Fat around the heart worse than body fat
United Press International - 57 minutes ago WINSTON-SALEM, NC, July 31 (UPI) — The location of fat — around the heart — may be more important to heart health than the total body fat, US researchers said. Wake Forest Baptist, Childress family to establish pediatric … Bizjournals.com Childress, medical center launch institute Lexington Dispatch News 14 Carolina - Online - International News Network all 15 news articles |
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Alzheimer 'Breakthrough' Tempts Families to Improvise - ABC News
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Alzheimer 'Breakthrough' Tempts Families to Improvise
ABC News - 58 minutes ago By LAUREN COX What would you do if had an incurable disease and heard that something simple and common may help — a chemical found at a pet store, or in an allergy drug, or a breakthrough injection a man in California developed? Alzheimer's disease A tangled tale Economist Slowing mental ravages of Alzheimer's disease Chicago Tribune U.S. News & World Report - WLNS - Corante all 669 news articles |
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Alzheimer 'Breakthrough' Tempts Families to Improvise - ABC News
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Alzheimer 'Breakthrough' Tempts Families to Improvise
ABC News - Jul 31, 2008 By LAUREN COX What would you do if had an incurable disease and heard that something simple and common may help — a chemical found at a pet store, or in an allergy drug, or a breakthrough injection a man in California developed? Rember, the drug that helps alzheimers sufferers Times Online Lilly says Alzheimer's antibody drug safe Reuters Chicago Tribune - Chicago Sun-Times - TIME - RedOrbit all 747 news articles |
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Public Bans On Smoking Found To Improve Health Of People - ChattahBox
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Public Bans On Smoking Found To Improve Health Of People
ChattahBox - 9 hours ago Boston (ChattahBox) - A new study carried out in Scotland has revealed that public smoking bans actually improve the overall health of people. Study Supports Health Benefits Of Smoking Ban Wall Street Journal Public Smoking Bans Work Across the Board U.S. News & World Report USA Today - The Press Association - eFluxMedia - dBTechno all 36 news articles |
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Tests show suspicious letter was no hazard - Newsday
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Tests show suspicious letter was no hazard
Newsday - 1 hour ago By TOM HESTER Jr. | AP Writer PRINCETON BOROUGH, NJ - Additional tests on mail from a Louisiana nursing-home resident to a New Jersey mayor found no hazardous materials, state health officials and police said Thursday, a day after government workers … Tests: No hazard in Princeton letter 6abc.com Suspicious package causes scare in Princeton, NJ The Associated Press Houston Chronicle - The Trentonian - Princeton Packet - Packet Online all 63 news articles |
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Too many treats can ruin your diet - News 10 Now
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Too many treats can ruin your diet
News 10 Now, NY - 9 hours ago If you’re on a diet and you can't lose weight, what's in your house? Pretzels, chips, candy, anything that is your problem, wrap it up, put it in a bag and … |
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