A Harvard and University of Michigan analysis projects that rising body mass would cut a typical 18-year-old's life expectancy by 0.71 years by 2020, offsetting a 20 percent drop in smoking. If all adults quit smoking and reached normal weight, life expectancy would gain about four years.
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'Bone-Crushing' Fever Risk MUCH Greater Threat than Swine Flu
WHO counts about 50 million dengue cases a year, with two-fifths of the world at risk and no vaccine or specific treatment, leaving mosquito control as the only defense. Researchers in San Antonio use humanized mice to study how the disease turns hemorrhagic.
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What is eds? Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome covers a group of inherited disorders that weaken connective tissue, bringing loose joints, fragile blood vessels and abnormal scarring. Severity varies widely; diagnosis can involve family history, joint and skin exams, biopsy and urine tests.
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Delaney Starcher, 5-yo girl, suffers rare brain cancer
Delaney Starcher, 5, was diagnosed in October 2009 with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a brain-stem tumor that cannot be removed by surgery and carries an average survival of six to nine months. A caringbridge.org post asks readers for prayers and donations toward her treatment.
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Dire Diabetes Predictions Challenge Medicare Debates in Congress
A University of Chicago study projects US diabetes cases rising from 23.7 million to 44.1 million by 2034, with spending climbing from $113 billion to $336 billion even if obesity rates hold flat. Federal diabetes spending could go from $45 billion to $171 billion.
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Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034
University of Chicago researchers project 44.1 million Americans will have diabetes within 25 years and that spending on the disease will triple to $336 billion by 2034, with Medicare's share climbing from $45 billion to $171 billion.
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Diabetes on the Rise? Bah, Humbug
Researchers told Diabetes Care that without lifestyle change the number of older adults with diabetes will double by 2034 and treatment costs could triple to $171 billion. The piece points at obesity, noting 65% of American adults are overweight and a third are obese.
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ADHD risks increase in children exposed to lead and cigarette smoke
Children exposed to both lead and prenatal tobacco smoke had eight times the ADHD risk of unexposed children in a Cincinnati Children's Hospital study. Smoke alone raised risk 2.4-fold and top-third blood lead 2.3-fold; removing both might cut up to 35 percent of cases.
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Researchers Find Tamiflu Resistant Viruses in UK and US
The WHO counted 57 Tamiflu-resistant flu cases worldwide, most arising within the patients themselves. But four cases at Duke University Medical Center and five in Wales appear to have spread person to person among immune-compromised patients. The viruses still respond to Relenza.
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Four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia die of H1N1 virus
Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said four pilgrims died of H1N1 flu three days before the haj at Mecca: a 17-year-old Nigerian and three 75-year-olds from Sudan, India and Morocco. A spokesman said the cases were found too late and that most had chronic conditions.
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Stefanie Spielman dies from breast cancer
The wife of NFL and Ohio State player Chris Spielman was 30 and three months pregnant when she found a lump. She survived four bouts with cancer before a fifth returned in March, and died at 42 at the family's home in Upper Arlington, leaving four children.
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Key Flu Indicators 11-21-2009
CDC's FluView reported that during Nov. 8-14, 2009 flu activity fell across all key indicators for a third straight week but stayed very high for the season. Hospitalization rates were highest in children under 5, and 21 more flu-related pediatric deaths were reported that week.
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Do You Know the Five Risk Factors for Lung Cancer BESIDES Smoking?
Dr. Mercola outlines what lung cancer is, its two main types, and its common symptoms, among them a persistent cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, recurrent pneumonia, coughing up blood and weight loss, noting these usually surface only at an advanced stage.
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Deadlier than Cocaine, Heroin, and the Swine Flu?
Prescription drugs cause most of the more than 26,000 fatal US overdoses each year, says the CDC's Leonard Paulozzi, and deaths from opioid painkillers more than tripled between 1999 and 2006, reaching 13,800. Painkillers have overtaken heroin and cocaine as the leading cause of fatal overdose.
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Oregon Cat first feline death from H1N1
A 10-year-old cat admitted with pneumonia died of H1N1 on Nov. 7, the first feline death and third confirmed cat case. Oregon's state public health veterinarian said cat-to-human transmission could be possible; the OVMA urged owners not to panic.
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Type 2 Diabetes major risk factor for cancer
A World Journal of Gastroenterology study comparing 1,172,496 type 2 diabetes discharges with controls found pancreatic cancer incidence three times higher among diabetics, and gallbladder and extrahepatic biliary cancers twice as high.
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Major Victory with Swine Flu Scandal
British and French media accused researchers of hyping the H1N1 pandemic to win grants and enrich drug companies. Britain's worst-case estimate of 65,000 deaths was revised down twice, to about 1,000, well below the usual 4,000 to 8,000 annual toll from seasonal flu.
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The Pandemic that DWARFS Swine Flu
Prescription drugs cause most of the more than 26,000 fatal US overdoses each year, and CDC figures show opioid painkiller deaths more than tripled from 1999 to 2006, reaching 13,800. Painkillers have passed heroin and cocaine as the leading cause of fatal overdose.
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