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Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

...s diagnoses and got their blood levels of selenium checked twice yearly. During the study, 58 participants in the selenium group reported being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, compared with 39 people taking the placebo. The possible link between type 2 diabetes and selenium supplementation held when the ...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...ference, body length, and height. Each horse was checked for signs of laminitis and blood was drawn to assess glucose and insulin levels as well as other hormones, cytokines, and oxidative biomarkers. A questionnaire was also completed by each horses owner to gather background information on breed, gend...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...ped by the Stanford investigators, the researchers checked the database to determine whether an electronic health record system enhanced the quality of care. "In essence, we found little difference in the quality of care being provided by physicians with electronic health record systems, compared to those ...

'Rehab Changed by Life' Says Lindsay Lohan

...ow it is always with me," she added. The actress checked into rehab for the second time earlier in June, after she was arrested for drunk driving....

Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

...or the people." With his buttonless white shirt, checked trousers and white shoes, the 37-year-old, who is a minor celebrity in Singapore, looks more DJ than doctor-turned-inventor. "The world has been running sex education campaigns presuming that people will follow what the system wants -- but we don't...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...e placed on a slide and sent to a laboratory to be checked for abnormal cells. Dr Harper used the case of Finland as an unfortunate illustration. Finland has long been the gold standard of effective cervical cancer screening programs -- they were close to 100% participation. But because the early screen...

Lindsay Lohan Gets Another Vodka Deal!

...eatment center in Malibu on Memorial Day where she checked herself into after a series of weekend parties following her DUI citation a week earlier. Lohan was photographed passed out, in the passenger seat of a car driven by her friend Samantha Ronson at about 4 a.m. on May 27 after leaving a party at the ...

Preimplanted Genetic Screening Should Be Interpreted With Caution

...rgone more than 6 previous failed IVF cycles, been checked for and found to have normal chromosomal make-up, and produced more than 6 good quality embryos. Even in cases that fulfil these conditions, we nevertheless prefer transferring more embryos back to the uterus rather than carrying out PGS biopsies f...

Lindsay Lohan is 'serious' About Her Rehab Stint

...ed the friend, as saying. The young starlet, who checked into Promises rehab following her arrest in a DUI case, has also cancelled her 21st birthday bash at Las Vegas nightclub PURE. The nightclub also confirmed that cancellation and added that they support the actress' decision. "We support Lindsay a...

Recall of the AIDS Drug Causes Panic in Zambia

...aid all HIV-positive patients on Viracept would be checked by healthcare providers before being switched to other drugs. "Patients should not unilaterally decide to change drugs on their own, as the effects may be fatal," he cautioned. There are fears that some patients will stop taking Viracept before hea...

Girls Feet Severed in Amusement Park Accident

...state of Tamil Nadu. But for a tree branch which checked her fall, she would have crashed to death. There were no first aid facilities available, it was reported. Now comes the news that a 13-year-old girl had her feet severed in an accident on an amusement park in Kentucky. Her condition in a Nashville...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...alent polio vaccine in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar had checked the spread of the disease this year. The focus has been on reaching the youngest children, especially newborns, in the highest risk areas. 'We and our state governments are telling villagers to take special care of sanitation. Polio is a health me...

Lohan Leaving Her Happening Sierra Towers Address to Stay Booze Free

...ram' in rehab. Meanwhile, the young starlet, who checked into Promises rehab following her arrest in a DUI case, also cancelled her 21st birthday bash at Las Vegas nightclub PURE....

Britney Claims She was 'forced' into Rehab

...pare her children the stress of a court battle and checked into Promises on February 20 this year. Staff at Promises rehab centre in Malibu, California, is reported to have said that they thought Spears suffered from post-natal depression after the birth of her second child, which was made worse because sh...

Blind Faith Dictates Use Of Herbal Supplements In Many

... and St. John's Wort (depression). Bardia's team checked to see if there was scientific evidence supporting the use of those herbal supplements for the participants' health conditions. It was seen that the percentage of participants using herbal supplements in accordance with scientific evidence ranged f...

Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...ate cancer treatment, men routinely get PSA levels checked for the rest of their lives. Without cancer recurrence, they should stay at zero....

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...ely removed and allowed to cool. The researchers checked the temperature of the milk at 15-second intervals and determined that the flash-heated milk reached a peak temperature of 163 degrees Fahrenheit (72.9 degrees Celsius), and typically stayed hotter than 132 degrees Fahrenheit (56 degrees Celsius) for...

Some Multivitamin Supplements Don't Reduce the Risk of Lung Cancer

...of each supplement they took. The researchers then checked to see how many of the people in the study had lung cancer, using a government cancer registry. They found 393 cases of lung cancer. Adjusting for such risk factors as smoking, age, sex, cancer history, other lung disease and history of lung cancer, ...

Compound Present in Plant may Help to Curb Craving for Cannabis

...no other apparent side effects. Researchers also checked the effects of the plant extract on the rats' brains through a technique called microdialysis. They had a close look at the tiny fluid samples from a reward-signalling area of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens, which sits near the base of the ...

Some Cancers Linked to Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

...ion than the general population. The researchers checked the full employment records of 20,141 Swiss railway workers in employment or retired from post between 1972 and 2002. Information on deaths among the employees was obtained from national data. Electromagnetic field exposure varied, depending on pos...

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