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How Seniors Can Beat The Heat

Older people are especially at risk from heat-related health problems such as heatstroke and heat exhaustion. With the heat wave we are currently experiencing, now is not the time to do chores, run errands or weed your garden. %26quot;Heat can be miserable for all ages, but potentially life threatening for older persons,%26quot; according to Lois [...]

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Health Insurance: How Much Does It Matter?

Two recent reports associate lack of health insurance coverage with less access to health care services and worse health outcomes. One study is written by Jack Hadley of the Urban Institute and published by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, the other by an Institute of Medicine (IOM)committee, with support from the Robert [...]

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The Ultimate Tea Diet: How Tea Can Boost Your Metabolism

Many of us have heard about the benefits of tea. It appears that not only tea has health and metabolism benefits, but also helps to lose weight due to its diet effect, discusses the book by mark Ukra The Ultimate Tea Diet. The Ultimate Tea Diet book shows tea’s unique weight-loss potential in a straightforward [...]

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How Effective Is Hypertension Treatment Device?

InterCure announced the findings of new studies and analysis highlighting RESPeRATE — the only medical device cleared by the FDA and CE-approved for the treatment of hypertension. Five posters will be presented at the European Society of Hypertension meeting (ESH) in Berlin beginning June 14, 2008. Two of the five posters focus on RESPeRATE’s effect [...]

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How Tiger Woods Uses Pressure to Succeed

Most athletes would agree that %26quot;pressure%26quot; does not help you perform better. However, some athletes handle pressure more positively than others – and use it to succeed. After earning the trophy for the 2008 US Open Tiger Woods said that pressure and feeling nervous is a good thing. In fact Tiger Woods said in a [...]

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How Does Salmonella Get on Tomatoes?

As the food industry has rapidly grown in the past 35 years, the study said, the FDA has cut inspections by 78 percent. Now, inspectors visit a given food manufacturing plant once a decade; no inspectors visit farms or retail sales outlets, reports chrondotcom Many people, concerned about food and tomato safety ask questions on [...]

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How Wildfires Affect Public Health

Many county health departments are getting questions from their residents who have been affected by the smoke from the wildfire burning in Eastern North Carolina. The accompanying information has been provided to the local health departments by the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response and is being provided to the media to help facilitate [...]

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How Measles Virus Spreads Within Body

Measles, one of the most common contagious diseases, has been thought to enter the body through the surface of airways and lungs, like many other major viruses. Now, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators, including two at the University of Iowa, say that is not the case, and some medical texts will need to be revised. [...]

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How To Find Healthy Food

Are you having a hard time stretching your grocery dollars during the current economic downturn? You’re not alone. But before you stop buying fresh fruit, meat, vegetables and other items often perceived as costing a lot, check out these tips from a University of Michigan Health System dietitian. Holly Scherer, R.D., says you can follow [...]

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How Our Brain Speaks Languages?

The â€œLa Mente BilingÃ¼eâ€ research team that doctor Itziar Laka leads in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Basque Country analyses bilingual processing of language. The aim is to find out how the brain acquires and manages languages and to discover in what way languages being similar or different is influential in [...]

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How To Measure IVF Success

Many couples are undergoing IVF treatment, but they don’t know how to measure the chance of getting pregnant. This new research suggests four basic characteristics to define how successful IVF treatment will be. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a treatment for women who are having difficulties with getting pregnant. Doctor surgically takes eggs out of [...]

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How Older Adults Function In Daily Life

As more adults age into the high-risk period for cognitive impairment, clinicians need simple and reliable methods to identify where they may have problems in everyday life that reveal underlying changes in the brain. A new, carefully validated questionnaire called Everyday Cognition (ECog), when filled out by someone who knows an older adult well, can [...]

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