Health Tip: Dealing With Alzheimer’s (HealthDay)

HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Getting a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t mean life as you know it is ending. People with Alzheimer’s can lead a purposeful and productive life if they take steps to care for their physical and mental health, the Alzheimer’s Association says.

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Obesity, Diabetes Pose 1-2 Threat to Young Americans (HealthDay)

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have long been concerned that increasing rates of childhood obesity could fuel a diabetes epidemic.

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Ohio Medicaid cancer patients survive less time (Reuters)

Reuters – Cancer patients on Medicaid survive less time after their diagnosis than people with private or no insurance, data from Ohio show.

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U.S. Blacks More Likely to Die of Colon Cancer Than Whites: Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) — Although colorectal cancer death rates in the United States have fallen across the board over the last 20 years, the dip has been smaller among blacks than whites, a new study indicates.

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Gene Mutations Linked to Thyroid Cancer Risk: Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have identified three gene abnormalities that appear to raise the likelihood for developing the thyroid cancer, with one in particular — the PTEN gene — implicated in children’s risk for the disease.

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WHO: Bird flu research raises safety questions (AP)

AP – The World Health Organization is warning that dangerous scientific information could fall into the wrong hands after U.S. government-funded researchers engineered a form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus more easily transmissible between humans.

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NY bill would require bachelor’s degrees for RNs (AP)

AP – New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor’s degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages.

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Need help avoiding hangover? Less booze, more H2O (AP)

AP – Attorney Colleen Gorman has a holiday ritual that doesn’t involve buying presents or counting down to midnight: She goes online to look for new hangover remedies she hasn’t tried.

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Columbus Voyage Tied to Syphilis Spread? (HealthDay)

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) — A new examination of the origin of syphilis supports the theory that the sexually transmitted disease was carried to Europe aboard Christopher Columbus’ ships as they sailed home from the New World.

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Avastin May Help Some With Ovarian Cancer: Studies (HealthDay)

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) — Two new studies suggest that the drug Avastin may lengthen progression-free survival by about four months for women with ovarian cancer.

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