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Today's Health News: Doctors look for orange-size lump, find 56-pounder Frozen fruit bars recalled after typhoid outbreak Salmonella find links 2 Iowa farms to egg recall UK study: Nonreligious doctors hasten death more Restoring sight with new type of artificial cornea Mexico beginning crackdown on antibiotic sales Surgery for obesity increases 10-fold in England Young adults at risk as STIs rise Does Hope Have a Dark Side? Health Tip: Training a Toddler to Use the Toilet Link Between Diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease Strengthened FDA panel backs wider use of Eli Lilly's Cymbalta New drug shrinks many advanced melanomas: study Salmon Baby Food: How to Get Your Kids to Eat Fish German pop star sentenced in HIV trial Insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes linked to Alzheimer's Oral alternative to allergy shots improves hay fever French diet guru Montignac dies at 66 Doctors look for orange-size lump, find 56-pounder Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:47 pm PDT AP - Doctors were shocked when they looked into a woman's uterus searching for an orange-size tumor but found something that resembled a giant rock instead. Full Story Top Frozen fruit bars recalled after typhoid outbreak Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:03 pm PDT AP - Fruiti Pops, Inc. of Santa Fe Springs has recalled its mamey (mah-MAY') frozen fruit bars because of a possible link to a rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever. Full Story Top Salmonella find links 2 Iowa farms to egg recall Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:14 pm PDT AP - Food and Drug Administration officials say they have found positive samples of salmonella that link two Iowa farms to a massive egg recall. Full Story Top UK study: Nonreligious doctors hasten death more Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:08 am PDT AP - Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious, according to a new study in Britain. Full Story Top Restoring sight with new type of artificial cornea Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:49 pm PDT AP - Scientists have created a new kind of artificial cornea, inserting a sliver of collagen into the eye that coaxes its own natural corneal cells to regrow and restore vision. Full Story Top Mexico beginning crackdown on antibiotic sales Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:54 pm PDT AP - Mexican authorities have begun enforcing tougher rules designed to ensure that people have a doctor's prescription to buy antibiotics. Full Story Top Surgery for obesity increases 10-fold in England Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:14 pm PDT Reuters - Use of weight-loss surgery has increased 10-fold in hospitals in England since 2000 and those who have gastric bands fitted can reduce their risk of early death and cut health service costs, scientists said on Friday. Full Story Top Young adults at risk as STIs rise Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:52 am PDT AFP - Almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were diagnosed in the UK last year, with young people the most affected, new figures released Wednesday show. Full Story Top Does Hope Have a Dark Side? Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine suffering from a chronic illness that challenges you every single day. You have aches and pains, difficulty getting around and sometimes suffer from surprising decreases in energy. You take fistfuls of medication for relief and endure countless medical procedures to keep the illness from progressing. Full Story Top Health Tip: Training a Toddler to Use the Toilet Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- When training your little one to use the potty, it's best to start with a plan and a few guidelines. Full Story Top Link Between Diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease Strengthened Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Two of the most common and dreaded illnesses in America may share a connection, with new research suggesting that having insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes raises your risk of developing the brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. Full Story Top FDA panel backs wider use of Eli Lilly's Cymbalta Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:19 pm PDT Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co's antidepressant Cymbalta should be approved to help ease chronic pain in certain patients, a U.S. medical advisory panel said on Thursday. Full Story Top New drug shrinks many advanced melanomas: study Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:47 pm PDT AFP - An experimental therapy that targets the protein that feeds certain types of advanced skin cancer has successfully shrunk tumors in up to 80 percent of test patients, a study has indicated. Full Story Top Salmon Baby Food: How to Get Your Kids to Eat Fish Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:30 am PDT Time.com - One reason Americans don't eat enough fish is that it's rarely in our diets when we're children Full Story Top German pop star sentenced in HIV trial Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:25 am PDT AFP - An HIV-positive pop star who infected a former sex partner with the virus walked free Thursday after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence. Full Story Top Insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes linked to Alzheimer's Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:59 pm PDT AFP - People with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of developing plaques associated with Alzheimer's, Japanese researchers said in a study out Wednesday. Full Story Top Oral alternative to allergy shots improves hay fever Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:17 am PDT Reuters - A therapy that allows hay fever sufferers to get allergy shots in the form of a tablet or drops can help alleviate symptoms and cut people's reliance on allergy medication, a new research review confirms. Full Story Top French diet guru Montignac dies at 66 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:46 am PDT AFP - Michel Montignac, author of worldwide best-sellers on weight loss in the 1980s and 1990s, has died aged 66, French officials said Thursday. Full Story Top

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