The National Diabetes Education Program offers 10 ways to turn a family reunion into diabetes prevention, starting with learning your family history. It cites research that losing 5 to 7 percent of body weight and moving 30 minutes a day, five days a week, can cut type 2 risk by more than half.
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Lyme disease: What are the symptoms?
The bite of an infected blacklegged tick carrying Borrelia burgdorferi transmits Lyme disease. Some people develop a bulls-eye rash, fever, headache, muscle pain or swollen joints; others have no early symptoms at all. Doctors use blood antibody tests to help diagnose it.
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Do You Have Depression? Here's a New Risk!
The writer argues drugmakers invented treatment resistant depression to keep antidepressant sales alive after blockbusters lost patents, generics spread and studies questioned the drugs, and says pharma now casts depression as progressive to push earlier, combined treatment.
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Overweight, obesity linked to higher death risk
Following 6,603 Taiwanese adults aged 20 to 65 for 24 years, researchers found a BMI of 25 to 26.9 carried a 28 percent higher risk of death and a BMI of 27 or above a 46 percent higher risk, with the steepest increases in deaths from diabetes.
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HIV Surveillance --- United States, 1981--2008
Thirty years after CDC reported Pneumocystis pneumonia in five young Los Angeles men, this MMWR summary counts 33.3 million people living with HIV worldwide at the end of 2009 and 1,178,350 in the United States at the end of 2008, with 594,496 U.S. AIDS deaths since 1981.
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Cytomegalovirus: Protect Your Baby
CMV is the most common congenital infection in the United States, and about 5,500 children a year, or 1 in 750, are born with or develop disabilities from it. A mother infected during pregnancy has as much as a 1-in-3 chance of passing the virus to her baby.
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Dr. Charles Crist on Lyme Disease
An interview with Missouri physician Charles Crist, who treats what he calls Borreliosis or Master's disease, a tick-borne infection he says is similar to but distinctly different from New England Lyme disease, and who describes the mix of treatments he uses.
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The Root Cause of Acne Your Doctor Will Never Tell You About...
Dr. Mercola writes that acne affects about 85% of Americans at some point and one in five US adults, carries a heavy psychological toll, and that he opposes the drugs doctors commonly prescribe because they carry side effects and treat symptoms rather than the underlying cause.
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Cancer Breakthrough: 50-60% Success Rate, Cures the Incurable
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and his son Gregory treat cancer with antineoplastons he has developed over 35 years, alongside conventional drugs, customized diets and gene sequencing. Twelve phase 2 trials have finished under FDA supervision and three phase 3 trials are running.
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Arthritis as a Potential Barrier to Physical Activity
CDC's analysis of 2007 and 2009 BRFSS data found arthritis affected 35.6 percent of adults with obesity, and that those with both were 44 percent more likely to be physically inactive than obese adults without arthritis, after adjusting for age, sex, race and education.
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Your Waist Size Predicts Heart Disease Death Better than Your Weight
Mercola reports on an analysis finding heart patients with a high waist-to-hip ratio or a large waist, over 35 inches for women and 40 for men, were 70 percent more likely to die during the study period than those with smaller waists, while a high BMI tracked with lower death risk.
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Acetaminophen linked to lower risk of prostate cancer
Among 78,000 men in the Cancer Prevention Study II cohort, those taking more than 30 acetaminophen pills a month for five years or longer had about 38 percent lower overall prostate cancer risk and 51 percent lower risk of aggressive disease. Shorter use showed no reduction.
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Regular Eye Exams Help Keep Vision Healthy
For Healthy Vision Month the CDC and National Eye Institute urge regular comprehensive dilated eye exams. Of 3.3 million Americans with impaired vision, 2.9 million are 65 or older, while amblyopia affects 2 to 4 percent of preschoolers and only one in seven gets an eye exam.
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May is Hepatitis Awareness Month
Hepatitis B and C can become lifelong infections that lead to liver cancer, and many of the millions of infected Americans do not know it. Up to 85% of people who catch hepatitis C develop chronic infection; hepatitis B is vaccine preventable.
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Do ADHD meds put kids at risk for heart problems?
A study of more than 241,000 children on ADHD medication and 965,000 nonusers found no statistically significant difference in validated sudden death or ventricular arrhythmia, and no heart attacks among users. The authors could not completely rule out an association.
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NEW Research Explains 61% of Multiple Sclerosis Cases
Researchers report that sunlight levels alone explained 61 percent of the variation in MS cases across England, rising to 72 percent once glandular fever was added. They suggest low sunlight may change how the body responds to infection.
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Genetics predict chemo benefits for breast cancer patients
Researchers built a gene-expression test to predict which HER2-negative breast cancer patients respond to presurgical chemotherapy. In a 198-patient validation group, 28 percent were predicted treatment-sensitive, and 92 percent of those went three years without relapsing.
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Battling obesity with brown fat
Knocking down NPY expression in the dorsomedial hypothalamus of rats shrank fat stores, blunted high-fat-diet obesity and produced brown adipocytes in white fat, according to a report in Cell Metabolism. More than a third of U.S. adults are obese, the CDC says.
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