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(AP)
AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
(AP)
(AP)
AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.
(AP)
AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
(AP)
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AP - Brazil’s president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.
(HealthDay)
drinking boosts the risk of liver disease in men and women, researchers
report in two new studies.
(HealthDay)
better sex lives, with healthy people more likely to engage in sex (and
good sex at that) and to express an interest in sex, new research
finds.
(Reuters)
(HealthDay)
new, more broadly effective pneumococcal vaccine (PCV13) for young
children could greatly reduce the prevalence of pneumococcal disease in
that age group, a new government report suggests.
(HealthDay)
improve an elderly person’s balance, according to a new study.
(Reuters)
(HealthDay)
received by a prostate cancer patient often depends on the type of
specialist providing the patient’s care, new research shows.
(Reuters)
(Reuters)
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