CDC figures for 2007 show black men had the highest cancer incidence, 598.5 per 100,000, and the highest death rate, 284.2. Among women, white women were diagnosed most often at 412.5 per 100,000, while black women died at the highest rate, 175.2.
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H1N1 flu mutation found that spreads more efficiently
Researchers swapped one amino acid in the H1N1 virus's HA surface protein and found it bound respiratory cells far more easily. They say the 2009 strain spreads inefficiently, but that small surface changes could make it more virulent, so seasonal tracking matters.
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Diabetics at higher risk for Parkinson's disease
Among 288,662 people in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, those with diabetes were 41 percent more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, with most of the excess risk among people who had diabetes more than 10 years, a Diabetes Care study reports.
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What do I do if someone has a seizure?
Drawing on NINDS, the piece explains that epilepsy involves clusters of brain neurons signaling abnormally, and that doctors diagnose it only after a person has two or more seizures. About 80 percent of those diagnosed can control seizures with current medicines and surgery.
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Rates of Cerebral Palsy on the decline
Among nearly 3,000 infants born prematurely in the Netherlands, 2.2 percent of those born in 2002-2005 were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, down from 6.5 percent in 1990-1993, and the later cases were less severely affected. Researchers credit improving infant care.
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Down Syndrome diagnosed with blood test
Nature Medicine reports a prenatal blood test that correctly identified 14 Down syndrome cases and 26 normal fetuses. European scientists say the method, not yet commercially available, may one day spare women invasive procedures such as amniocentesis, which carry a miscarriage risk.
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Unhealthy Sleep-Related Behaviors
CDC's 2009 BRFSS sleep module, covering 74,571 adults in 12 states, found 35.3 percent averaged under seven hours of sleep, 48 percent snored, 37.9 percent had unintentionally fallen asleep during the day in the past month, and 4.7 percent nodded off while driving.
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Bald men at higher risk of prostate cancer?
In a study of 669 men, those with prostate cancer were twice as likely to have had male pattern baldness at age 20, though the balding pattern did not predict the cancer's timing or severity. Other studies point the other way, finding early baldness tied to lower risk.
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Speaking a second language delays onset of dementia
York University researchers compared 450 Alzheimer's patients, half of them bilingual, and found diagnosis came about four years later in those speaking two languages, whose scans showed more advanced deterioration at similar function. The study did not prove a second language lowers dementia risk.
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Less growth hormone, fewer chronic diseases ?
In a 20-year study of 100 people with Laron syndrome in the Andes, none had type 2 diabetes and only one had a non-fatal cancer, against 5 percent with diabetes and 17 percent with cancer among 1,600 relatives. The authors suggest lower growth hormone activity may protect.
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Breast Cancer Breakthrough - Cut Your Risk of Death in Half
Mercola cites National Breast Cancer Foundation figures, including 200,000 new U.S. cases a year and a rise from one in twenty women diagnosed in 1960 to one in seven today, plus an American Institute of Cancer Research estimate that 40 percent of cases are preventable.
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ALERT: Seizures Now Reported in Kids Receiving Flu Vaccine
FDA is examining 36 confirmed reports of febrile seizures in young children within a day of getting Fluzone, the only flu shot recommended for the very young in the US. Officials say guidance has not changed; Mercola ties it to Australia's 2010 suspension for under-5s.
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Stroke news for today
Two items: the industry-backed Calorie Control Council disputes a study tying diet soda to ischemic stroke, noting it was not peer reviewed and rested on self-reported data; and University of Michigan researchers project stroke among Mexican Americans could rise 350 percent by 2050.
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Cancer will kill 1.3 million Europeans in 2011
A mathematical model in Annals of Oncology projects 721,252 male and 560,184 female cancer deaths in Europe in 2011, slightly more deaths than in 2007 but lower mortality rates. Lung cancer death rates in women kept rising in every member state except the UK.
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Cardiovascular disease: Put your heart into preventing it
The Heart Truth campaign and its Red Dress symbol target women aged 40 to 60, when heart disease risk starts rising. Eight million U.S. women live with heart disease and 435,000 have heart attacks a year, yet nearly half say they would not call 911 during symptoms.
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These Types of Children Have an Increased Risk of Suicidal Thoughts
Suicide ranked third among causes of death for Americans aged 15 to 24 as of 2007, making up 12.2 percent of deaths in that group against 1.4 percent of deaths overall. Mercola asks what part rising antidepressant, antipsychotic and ADHD prescribing plays.
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Do You Make This Common Mistake When Your Child is Sick?
Mercola argues that fever in older children who are not visibly distressed signals a working immune system rather than danger, while stressing that fever in infants under 3 months, or a first seizure with fever, needs a doctor. He notes it raises fluid needs but does not harm the brain.
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High Blood Pressure & Cholesterol: Out of Control in US
CDC's February Vital Signs reports 68 million US adults have high blood pressure and 71 million have high LDL cholesterol. Nearly two in three adults with high LDL and about half with high blood pressure do not have it under control, and having insurance alone is not enough to close the gap.
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