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1. Second Diet Drug Wins FDA Approval. For the second time in as many weeks, the FDA has approved a diet drug -- phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia).
2. Stroke Severity Key in Ranking Hospital Results. When ranking hospitals on outcomes for treating acute ischemic stroke in Medicare patients, it might be necessary to take into account the ...
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1. Blood Markers Promising in Alzheimer's. Blood tests may soon be a realistic screening tool for Alzheimer's disease, with two research groups reporting they had found multi-marker panels that distinguished individuals with the disease from healthy people.
2. Gastric Bypass May Not Cut Healthcare Costs. Among obese veterans, bariatric surgery -- predominantly gastric bypass -- ...
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1. Playing Sports Helps Teens Fight Fat. Team sports may fight weight problems better than other forms of exercise among high schoolers.
2. Tanking Economy May Mean Kids Suffer More Abuse. Rates of physical abuse and brain injury among the nation's children have risen significantly in the early 21st century, and the recent economic recession ...
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1. Take Docs Out of Assisted Suicide Equation? A federal/state, highly regulated mechanism should be created so that terminal patients can obtain a lethal dose of medication with which to end their lives if they so choose.
2. Sitting Less Could Add Years to Life. Cutting time spent sitting down could increase life expectancy by ...
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1. Kicking Habit Adds More Pounds Than Thought. Smokers who successfully quit for a year can expect, on average, to gain more than 10 pounds over that time.
2. 'Mystery' Illness Likely Not Only in Cambodia. The illness suspected of killing several dozen children in Cambodia is no stranger to the region, according to the ...
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1. FDA Finalizes Opioid Education Plan. Companies that manufacture powerful, long-acting opioid painkillers will have to sponsor education programs about how to appropriately prescribe their drugs.
2. Cranberry for UTI More Than Folk Remedy? Drinking cranberry juice or taking cranberry capsules or tablets was associated with a protective effect against urinary tract infection.
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1. Tracking Twists and Turns of the Athletic Heart. In this exclusive MedPage Today interview, Malissa Wood, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, details how echocardiography has advanced our understanding of the athletic heart.
2. Older Women May Be at Risk for Pulmonary HTN. Of patients with systemic hypertension but preserved ejection fraction, ...
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Utter confusion could result if the Supreme Court invalidates the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate while upholding other parts of the law, a physician expert predicted ahead of Thursday's expected decision.
And a split decision is, indeed, likely, said Randy Wexler MD, MPH, of Ohio State University in Columbus.
That will create chaos, he said, which is something other ...
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1. Step-by-Step Diet Counseling Works, Costs Less. A diet and exercise program that offered extra help to participants who had trouble meeting their weight-loss goals was virtually equivalent in overall weight loss to a standard program, but was less expensive.
2. Low-Carb Diets May Put Heart at Risk. Consuming a low carbohydrate-high protein diet -- ...
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1. H1N1 Pandemic May Have Killed Nearly 300,000. A new estimate places the number of people killed by the pandemic influenza A H1N1 strain worldwide at 284,400, about 15 times greater than the number of reported laboratory-confirmed cases.
2. Prevention Panel Tells Docs to Screen for Obesity. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has ...
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