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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) — Weight management,
exercise and proper nutrition are key to reducing your risk of cancer. And
the earlier in life you adopt these practices, the better off you’ll be, a
new study suggests.

AP – One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don’t know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.

AP – An increasing taste for Western-style junk food and unhealthy lifestyles have caused the rate of breast cancer among urban Chinese women to jump sharply over the past decade, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.

Title: Health Tip: Taking Care of Braces
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/31/2007

Title: Health Tip: Protect Your Joints
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: AIDS Stopped in Haiti Before U.S.
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: New Drug Promising Against Tough-to-Treat Kidney Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Health Highlights: Oct. 30, 2007
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Most Americans Have Poor ‘Eye-Q’
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Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Almost 2 Million U.S. Vets Lack Health Insurance
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Younger Veterans at Greater Suicide Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Quality of Life Predicts Lung Cancer Survival
Category: Health News
Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Virus Shows Some Cancer-Killing Abilities
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Created: 10/31/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Vitamin D May Not Cut Cancer Deaths
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Created: 10/31/2007
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Title: Some Kids’ Cough Syrups Recalled
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Created: 10/31/2007
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Title: Survey: Plastic Surgery Has Wide Appeal
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Created: 10/31/2007
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Title: TV Bad for Obese Kids’ Blood Pressure?
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Created: 10/31/2007
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) — An experimental drug called
axitinib shows promise for treating people with what’s known as
cytokine-refractory metastatic kidney cancer — a group of patients who
typically have a poor response to drug treatment.

HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:

HealthDay – TUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) — Among prostate cancer
patients undergoing a high-tech form of radiation therapy, exposure to a
higher amount of radiation over a shorter time span poses no added risk
for impaired sexual function, new research reveals.

AP – Use of cholesterol and blood pressure medicines by young adults appears to be rising rapidly — at a faster pace than among senior citizens, according to an industry report being released Tuesday.

AP – A large new study found no sign that vitamin D lowers the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. The exception: People with more vitamin D in their blood did have a significantly lower risk of death from colorectal cancer, supporting earlier findings.

AP – West Virginia is hoping that a little wheel can make a big difference in the state’s obesity problem. The wheel is a body mass index calculator, a low-tech tool that will be distributed to doctors across the state as part of a new effort to get physicians to recognize obesity early in their patients.

AP – Science is getting a grip on people’s fears. As Americans revel in all things scary on Halloween, scientists say they now know better what’s going on inside our brains when a spook jumps out and scares us. Knowing how fear rules the brain should lead to treatments for a major medical problem: When irrational fears go haywire.

Reuters – About 10 percent of Americans aged
71 and up, or 2.4 million people, have Alzheimer’s disease and
1 million more have some other form of dementia, researchers
said on Tuesday, offering figures lower than some widely cited
estimates.

AP – In the lab, psychology professor David Zald studies how fast adults react to fear. At his home this time of year, he watches kids adjust to it.

Title: Health Tip: Get Regular Eye Exams
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/30/2007

Title: Health Tip: Women and Antibiotics
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Fetal Surgery Saves Baby After Early ‘Water Break’
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Health Highlights: Oct. 29, 2007
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: U.S. Docs Taught Little About Wartime Ethics
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Rheumatoid Arthritis Death Rate Unchanged
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Won’t Affect Sexual Function
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Defibrillator Use Urged to Save Children’s Lives
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Tasigna Approved for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
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Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Certain Seizure Patients Need Emergency CT Scan
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Smoking Does Not Worsen Breast Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Zinc Helps Elderly Ward Off Pneumonia
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Study Supports Controversial Heart Failure Drug
Category: Health News
Created: 10/30/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/30/2007