Extended unemployment predicted later depressive symptoms in an American Journal of Public Health analysis of youth surveyed from 1979 to 1994, and WebMD reports 80% of Americans feel financial stress. The piece suggests daily exercise and a news fast to blunt it.
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Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices
Options run from watchful waiting to removing the prostate or radiation, with proton therapy costing around $100,000. The author says prostate cancer kills an estimated 35,000 US men a year and cites reporting that no serious study shows high-tech treatments keep men alive longer.
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Is Forced Experimental Vaccination On the Way?
Mercola relays claims from Info Wars and Global Research that five regional military teams could back FEMA during swine flu vaccination and impose mass quarantines. He calls much media coverage fear-mongering, doubts forced vaccination would be tolerated, and questions the vaccine's evidence base.
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Legal Immunity Set for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers
Under the 2006 PREP Act, the HHS Secretary granted makers of Tamiflu, Relenza and future swine flu vaccines and adjuvants near-total immunity from liability. The writer argues this removes any financial incentive to test for safety, and notes concerns over thimerosal in the coming doses.
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Army retraining for emotional well-being
The Army will require all soldiers to take resiliency training under a $117 million program modeled on middle-school courses, after finding one in five suffers from a mental illness. An introductory class trained 1,500 sergeants at the University of Pennsylvania.
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NUTRITION NOTES:Weight Gain in Pregnancy: How Much, How Little?
AICR nutritionist Karen Collins explains that both too much and too little pregnancy weight gain carry risks. Gaining over 35 pounds raises a normal-weight woman's odds of cesarean delivery, a high birth weight baby and possibly preeclampsia; too little raises low birth weight risks.
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Mags show images of babies in dangerous positions
More than a third of baby photographs in magazines aimed at new mothers showed infants sleeping on their sides or stomachs, and nearly two-thirds showed unsafe environments with pillows, blankets or stuffed animals, a Children's National Medical Center study of 28 magazines found.
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Swine flu vaccine could cause deadly nervous disorder
British authorities asked clinicians to report monthly any cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a nerve disorder that could be triggered by the swine flu vaccine due in October. The article recalls the 1976 U.S. campaign, in which 40 million were vaccinated and 25 people reportedly died of it.
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Study: 50% of Americans want H1N1 vaccine
A RAND internet survey of US adults, reported in Vaccine, found 49.6% intended to get the novel H1N1 shot, about 115 million vaccinations and close to the previous year's seasonal flu rate. The researchers suggest people who skip seasonal flu shots may skip this one too.
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Young Women Look to Their Own Mothers for Parenting Advice
An Ohio State study of 1,133 young parents whose own parents took a 1979 survey found women more likely than men to copy their mother's approach to reading, spanking and praising. Co-author Jonathon Vespa notes practices shifted too, with 1990s parents less likely to spank.
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Border collies: "Super dogs" of the species
Dog expert Stanley Coren told the American Psychological Association that dogs understand more than 150 words and reason roughly like a two-year-old, and that super dogs in the top 20 percent learn 250. The writer punctuates each claim with his own dog's less impressive habits.
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Cocaine killed Mays?
Florida authorities released autopsy results suggesting cocaine helped kill Billy Mays, though they ruled heart disease the cause. His family called the report speculative, and a 1997 study of young adults found most cardiovascular risk factors unrelated to lifetime cocaine use.
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The WHO plans to vaccinate more than half the World's population
A Global Research collection of reports on the 2009 H1N1 outbreak argues the pandemic misleads the public and that the epidemiological data was fabricated and manipulated. It quotes WHO vaccine production figures and pricing of just under $10 a dose for wealthier countries.
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Senator Christopher Dodd has prostate cancer: What you need to know
Senator Christopher Dodd, 65, said he was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer during a routine June exam and will have surgery in August. The piece then collects earlier foodconsumer.org reports on plant-based diets, black and green tea and lycopene in prostate cancer.
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Tanning bed users ignore cancer risk
A group of 20 scientists convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer placed tanning beds among the definite causes of cancer, and reported that women who start tanning before 30 raise their skin cancer risk by 75 percent.
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Americans Spend Billions on Alternative Medicine
The NIH says Americans spent $34 billion on alternative medicine in 2007, covering organic food, yoga, massage, Traditional Chinese Medicine and supplements. Nutritionist Karen Dees argues patients turn to it because US care fights disease well but does little to prevent chronic illness.
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Pregnant women top of the list for H1N1 vaccine
A 15-member federal advisory panel put pregnant women at the front of the line for the H1N1 vaccine expected in October, alongside health workers, children over six months, adults 19 to 24 and high-risk adults. The CDC's Anne Schuchat cited a four-fold rise in hospitalization.
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Texting while driving equals 20x risk of crash
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute research puts crash risk up to 20 times higher while a driver texts, with eyes off the road an average 4.6 of every six seconds, about the length of a football field at 55 mph. The institute wants texting in moving vehicles banned for all drivers.
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