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Nutrition / Diet News From Medical News Today
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Meat And Colorectal Cancer Risk: Scientists Suggest Potential Mechanisms Scientists in the US who undertook a large study to investigate what biological mechanisms might be behind the already established link between colorectal cancer and consumption of red and processed meat, confirmed that such a link exists and suggested the main players are three compounds: heme iron, nitrate/nitrite, and heterocyclic amines...

Low-Income Women Living In Small Cities Have Higher Chance Of Obesity A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them -- increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to increase healthful eating behaviors might need to be tailored based on geographic location...

University Of Florida Researchers Find Cancer-fighting Properties In Papaya Tea The humble papaya is gaining credibility in Western medicine for anticancer powers that folk cultures have recognized for generations. University of Florida researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in Japan have documented papaya's dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors, including cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas...

First Time Research On Long-term Consequences Of Intravenous Nutrition On Children's Health No work is known in the literature to date which provides a long-term and generalised evaluation of the health of children fed intravenously in their own home...

Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News From Medical News Today
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Massage Eases Anxiety, But No Better Than Simple Relaxation Does A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety. This improvement resembles that previously reported with psychotherapy, medications, or both...

British Fertility Society Issues New Guidelines On The Use Of Acupuncture And Chinese Herbal Medicine In Fertility Treatment, UK The British Fertility Society has issued new guidelines in the journal Human Fertility on the use of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in fertility treatment. The guidelines found that there is currently no evidence that having acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine treatment around the time of assisted conception increases the likelihood of subsequent pregnancy...

Reducing Pain In Hospitalized Patients Using Non-Drug Techniques Non-traditional therapies relieve pain among a wide range of hospitalized patients as much as 50 percent, according to a first-of-a-kind study in the Journal of Patient Safety...

Transcendental Meditation Activates Default Mode Network, The Brain's Natural Ground State A new EEG study conducted on college students at American University found they could more highly activate the default mode network, a suggested natural "ground state" of the brain, during their practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique...

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Herbal Remedy Users Have Worse Asthma Title: Herbal Remedy Users Have Worse Asthma
Category: Health News
Created: 2/4/2010 10:24:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/4/2010 10:24:02 AM

Kids' Use of Alternative Therapies Often Mimics Parents' Title: Kids' Use of Alternative Therapies Often Mimics Parents'
Category: Health News
Created: 1/28/2010 8:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2010

Stop Smoking with Acupuncture Title: Stop Smoking with Acupuncture
Category: Ask The Experts
Created: 12/5/2006
Last Editorial Review: 12/16/2009

Cervical Cancer Title: Cervical Cancer
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 12/14/2009

ScienceDaily Headlines: Health & Medicine
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Notorious Cancer Gene May Work By Destroying Messenger A new study suggests how a notorious cancer gene may contribute to tumor growth. The insight emerged from a long-running study of a protein called PMR1, the key player in an unusual mechanism that cells use to quickly stop production of certain important proteins.

Nonsurgical Thoracic Aorta Repair Has Much Less Risk Of Paralysis Than Surgery According to two recent studies, a nonsurgical treatment using stent-grafts to repair an injured or diseased thoracic aorta offered patients less risk of paraplegia as well as lower morbidity and mortality rates when compared to surgery.

Scientist Develops New Mathematical Model To Study Disease Genetics And Evolution USC college computational biologist Peter Calabrese has developed a new model to simulate the evolution of so-called recombination hotspots in the genome.

Women Report Sexual Problems A Full Year After Giving Birth; Health Problems Vary By Race A third of women experience painful sex a year after giving birth and more than half report at least one sex-related health problem after having a baby.