Andean women deliver more oxygen through the uterine artery to their fetuses at high altitude than women of European descent, and their babies weigh about 9 ounces more. The findings may help doctors treat pregnancies complicated by poor fetal growth.
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Stress from job loss increases health risks
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey found people who lost jobs through no fault of their own were 54 percent more likely to report fair or poor health, and those with existing conditions 83 percent more likely to develop another. Researchers describe knock-on effects on children's schooling.
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Personality traits in childhood may determine health in adulthood
Harvard's Laura Kabansky followed 559 people enrolled in the National Collaborative Perinatal Project to age 30, testing whether emotional and behavioral traits in childhood shape adult health. She notes earlier work was cross-sectional and leaned on adults rating their own health.
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Internet blogs spawn KFC riot rumor, AP says rumors are false
The Associated Press reports that online claims of a riot at a Manhattan KFC over Oprah's free grilled chicken coupons are false. A KFC spokeswoman says some customers were upset when the restaurant ran out of chicken, but there was no riot or protest.
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Schools reopen as U.S. reports first swine flu death
US health officials dropped the advice that schools close for two weeks over a single swine flu case, telling sick students to stay home instead, as most US cases proved mild. The country reported its first native death, a 33-year-old Texas teacher.
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Ohio woman first to receive face transplant in U.S.
Connie Culp, 46, disfigured by a shotgun blast in 2004, can drink from a cup, eat solid food and smell again after surgeons replaced 80 percent of her face in a 22-hour operation. She still faces anti-rejection drugs and further procedures.
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Jack Kemp dies of cancer
Jack Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills quarterback, congressman and housing secretary, died of cancer at his Bethesda home at 73. He was diagnosed in January with late-stage cancer in multiple organs; which cancers is not known. President Obama and Bob Dole paid tribute.
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Chinese government quarantines Mexican travelers
China confined Mexican travelers who shared a flight with one infected passenger to hotels, and the travelers complained of poor medical care and of camera crews meeting them at the gate. Mexico's ambassador objected that none showed signs of the virus.
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What's behind the epidemic of family-acide?
A Chicago columnist counts recent family killings — D'Andre Howard in Hoffman Estates, Christopher Alan Wood in Middletown, Kerby Revelus in Milton, James Harrison in Orting, all in one month — and questions the press's quick attribution of them to economic stress.
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Does your child have Schizophrenia? The pharmaceutical industry hopes so
An opinion piece arguing drug makers keep manufacturing new markets as old ones collapse — menopause, then thinning bones, then fibromyalgia and depression — after hormone replacement and bisphosphonates turned out to cause some of the harms they promised to prevent.
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Is the pharmaceutical industry harming our soldiers?
The piece ties Iraq-war suicides to psychiatric drugs: 80 percent of troops with PTSD receive SSRIs or SNRIs that carry suicide warnings, and published reports count 660 suicides on those drugs since 1988. The VA still recommends SSRIs as first-line PTSD treatment.
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Boy dies of "dry drowning"
No account exists of exactly how the boy died. His mother told NBC News he swam, said later at home that he felt sleepy, and was found with a strange white spongy material on his face; he died at hospital. A pediatrician named three warning signs parents should act on.
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