The Hall of Fame player, broadcaster and actor died at 69 at City of Hope after several courses of chemotherapy, two years after his diagnosis. He had sued former employers over workplace asbestos exposure. The piece outlines the disease's 20-to-30-year latency and symptoms.
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Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Infection in Swine Herds, Manitoba, Canada
Manitoba animal health officials describe pandemic H1N1 2009 infections in several swine herds in summer 2009, first detected on June 30. Investigations concluded these outbreaks lasted about as long as outbreaks of swine influenza A(H1N1) and A(H3N2).
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Minorities at Greater Risk for Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease
The Alzheimer's Association's 2010 Facts and Figures report finds African Americans more than twice as likely, and Hispanic Americans about 1.5 times as likely, as whites to develop Alzheimer's, most likely because diabetes and high blood pressure are more common in those groups.
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Five Ways to Help Beat Depression Without Antidepressants
Mercola argues that twenty-plus years of trials show antidepressants improve on placebo only minimally, even as the number of Americans taking them doubled from 13.3 million in 1996 to 27 million in 2005, and he makes a case for the placebo effect and the mind-body connection.
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Study confirms HIV incurable
University of Michigan researchers led by Kathleen Collins found HIV can hide in the progenitors of blood cells in bone marrow, where it may reawaken later. The finding, in Nature Medicine, helps explain why antiviral combinations do not free patients of the virus.
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Malaria Acquired in Haiti --- 2010
CDC received reports of 11 laboratory-confirmed Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases acquired in Haiti between January 12 and February 25: seven emergency responders, three Haitian residents and one US traveler. Two military patients needed intensive care in the US and all should recover.
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Radical New Understanding of Genetic Disease
Mercola sets epigenetics against the genetic theory of disease, arguing genes respond to environment and even thoughts and beliefs, and endorses German New Medicine's claim that emotional conflict shock leaves a visible mark in the brain area governing a disease.
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Diabetes Alert: Your Gut Microflora May Be Out of Balance
Mercola highlights a Danish study in PLoS ONE reporting that gut bacterial populations differ between people with type 2 diabetes and those without. He argues for rebalancing gut flora through minimally processed food and fewer antibiotics.
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Fatal stroke more likely to kill single and unhappily married men
Tracking 10,000 Israeli men from the 1960s to 1997, Uri Goldbourt found 8.4 percent of unmarried men died of stroke against 7.1 percent of married men, and that men happy in their marriages were 64 percent less likely to die of stroke. He stresses the study's limits.
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Outbreak of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) on a Peruvian Navy Ship
Of 85 crew members aboard a 355-crew Peruvian Navy ship who developed febrile acute respiratory infection, 78 tested positive for pandemic H1N1, a 22 percent attack rate. Cough, headache, congestion and malaise were most common, and no one died.
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In America, Hypertension is ignored
The National Academy of Sciences urged the CDC to promote exercise, smaller portions and less salt. Hypertension costs the U.S. health system $73 billion a year, and the report estimates better eating habits could cut cases by 22 percent and exercise programs by four to six percent.
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An Expert Guide to Reducing Your Dementia Risk
Dr. Mercola relays a panel's review of more than 70 papers, which suggests exercise, avoiding obesity and tobacco, normalizing blood pressure, a Mediterranean diet, an active social life and brain training may cut the chance of developing dementia by as much as 20 percent.
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CDC H1N1 Flu Website Situation Update, February 21, 2010
CDC's weekly FluView found most key indicators unchanged in the week of February 7. Doctor visits for influenza-like illness rose slightly but stayed low for the season, hospitalization rates leveled off, and two more pediatric deaths tied to 2009 H1N1 brought the total since April 2009 to 326.
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Minding Your Blood Pressure Could Prevent Alzheimer's
Brain scans indicate hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later dementia, and that the scarring can begin in middle age. Researchers once tied heart-disease risk factors only to vascular dementia, but they now appear to spur Alzheimer's-like processes too.
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What are the most common eating disorders?
Drawing on the HHS Office on Women's Health, the post says anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating are rising in the US and worldwide and that no one knows exactly what causes them, then points to NIMH and NEDA resources for families.
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FDA MedWatch released on Feb 17
An FDA bulletin rounding up February safety actions, including a risk management program for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents used against chemotherapy-related anemia, and recalls of IV extension sets and BD Q-Syte Luer access devices that may cause air embolism.
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Nuggets Coach George Karl Diagnosed with Cancer
Karl faces six weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy after a December 30 checkup found a lump he had dismissed as fatty tissue and a biopsy confirmed cancer. He beat prostate cancer in 2005, though any link is unknown; he expects to miss games in February and March.
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CDC H1N1 Flu Website Situation Update, February 14, 2010
A CDC FluView summary for early February 2010: doctor visits for influenza-like illness rose slightly but stayed low overall, few H1N1 hospitalizations were reported, and three more pediatric flu deaths brought the total since April 2009 to 324.
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