Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers compared 6,102 people with migraine to 5,243 without and found heart attacks in 4.1 versus 1.9 percent. Migraine with aura carried triple the risk, and migraine sufferers more often had diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
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One in Five U.S. Teenagers Has High Cholesterol
A CDC study of more than 3,000 US teenagers found over 20 percent had elevated cholesterol, rising to nearly 43 percent among obese teens but still affecting more than 14 percent at normal weight. Mercola warns the finding will push more children toward statins, which he opposes.
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Update: Mumps Outbreak
A mumps outbreak traced to an 11-year-old boy who returned from the UK and attended a New York summer camp reached 1,521 cases by January 29, 2010. It stayed largely within a tradition-observant Jewish community, and 88 percent of patients had at least one dose of mumps vaccine.
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Real Life Sleeping Beauty Struggles to Live Normal Life
Fifteen-year-old Louisa Ball sleeps for days at a time, most recently 13, with Kleine Levin syndrome, diagnosed in only about 1,000 people worldwide. Some physicians believe a viral infection sets it off and that it runs its course over 8 to 12 years.
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An Expert Guide to Reducing Your Dementia Risk
An expert panel reviewed more than 70 papers and listed steps that may cut dementia risk by as much as 20 percent: exercise, avoiding obesity, lowering blood pressure, not smoking, eating a Mediterranean diet, staying socially active and training the brain.
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Majority of American Adults Reject Swine Flu Vaccine
A Harvard School of Public Health poll found 53 percent of parents had their children vaccinated against H1N1 or intended to, while only 37 percent of adults had done so for themselves and 61 percent had not and did not plan to. Forty-four percent believed the pandemic was over.
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CDC: swine flu activity on the decline
The CDC reported H1N1 activity unchanged from the previous week, with hospitalization rates lower than earlier but still above what is expected for the season. No state reported widespread activity, nine more children died, and the agency continues to urge all Americans to get vaccinated.
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Parental mental illness boosts SIDS risk
Swedish records from 1978 to 2004 show infants whose parents had both been hospitalized for mental illness faced a 6.8-fold higher SIDS risk, rising to 9.5-fold when both had alcohol or drug disorders. A separate JAMA study ties SIDS to low serotonin.
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Low serotonin linked to SIDS
Comparing 36 infants who died of SIDS with five who died of other acute causes, Children's Hospital Boston researchers found serotonin levels 26 percent lower, tryptophan hydroxylase 22 percent lower and serotonin receptors 50 percent lower in the SIDS group. Published in JAMA.
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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
A group of inherited disorders affecting skin, joints and blood vessel walls, caused by mutations that disrupt collagen production. Modern medicine offers no cure, though a 2005 Medical Hypotheses paper proposed that a specific combination of nutritional supplements might alleviate symptoms.
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Still's disease
Still's disease, a form of arthritis marked by high spiking fevers and an evanescent salmon-colored rash, has no known cause; theories point to bacterial infection or autoimmunity. Blood tests and imaging support diagnosis, and early acute adult-onset cases are treated with NSAIDs and steroids.
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Understand Anthrax
A New Hampshire woman developed gastrointestinal anthrax after a drum circle, and ABC News reports the animal-hide drums tested positive for Bacillus anthracis spores, though she never touched one. The piece explains anthrax's three forms and early symptoms.
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Genetic mutations linked to prostate cancer prognosis
British researchers tested tumour samples from 308 patients for three genetic abnormalities. Patients with none of them often did well, 85 percent alive 11 years after diagnosis, while the roughly 6 percent who had lost PTEN without ERG or ETV1 rearrangement faced high risk of dying of their cancer.
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CDC updates weekly report on swine flu activity
The CDC's January 29 update showed swine flu receding: no state reported widespread activity in the week of January 17-23, and 4.6% of 164 specimens tested positive. Pneumonia and flu deaths stayed above the epidemic threshold, and five children died, four with H1N1.
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Swine flu outbreaks among care facility residents - CDC
CDC received reports of 2009 H1N1 outbreaks in long-term-care facilities in Colorado, Maine and New York in late 2009. Although infection rates among people 65 and older ran lower than for seasonal flu, the outbreaks show such facilities still need surveillance and infection control.
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Symptoms are similar for swine flu and HIV
UK researchers describe two Brighton men diagnosed clinically with swine flu and treated with antivirals who were later confirmed to have HIV, and argue that patients presenting with flu-like symptoms should be considered for HIV infection as well.
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CDC swine flu update, Jan 23
CDC's FluView for January 10-16, 2010 reports every key indicator down except deaths from pneumonia and influenza, which rose above expected levels, apparently on pneumonia deaths among older people rather than flu itself. Nine more flu-related pediatric deaths were reported that week.
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Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny
Drawing on Time magazine, the piece lays out epigenetics: marks sitting on top of the genome that tell genes to switch on or off, letting diet, stress and prenatal nutrition leave an imprint that passes to at least one later generation without altering the DNA code itself.
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