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Today's Health News: Many locked-in syndrome patients happy Study finds clue to chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme 21,000 had whooping cough last year, CDC says Laser Technology Might Help Doctors Diagnose Melanoma Microchip Spots Cancerous Tumors Within an Hour, Study Shows Mammograms less accurate in breast cancer survivors: study Gastric Bypass or Lap Band Surgery? Pot Use May Mellow Out Men's Sexual Function Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 23, 2011 Violent Video Games May Not Desensitize Kids: Study Autopsies Reveal Alzheimer's Often Misdiagnosed Sidewalk Rage: Mental Illness or 'Altruistic Punishment?' Breast cancer screening less accurate in survivors Early Childhood Might Affect Love Life in Adult AIDS Relief Plan Spurs Approval of HIV Drug Vitamin D may help keep blood sugar under control Climate change creates longer ragweed season Many locked-in syndrome patients happy Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:04 pm PST AP - You are awake, aware and probably unable to move or talk — but you are not necessarily unhappy, says the largest study of locked-in syndrome ever conducted. Full Story Top Study finds clue to chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:35 pm PST AP - Scientists have discovered proteins in spinal fluid that can distinguish people with two mysterious illnesses that mimic each other — chronic fatigue syndrome and a kind of chronic Lyme disease. Full Story Top 21,000 had whooping cough last year, CDC says Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:00 pm PST AP - More than 21,000 people got whooping cough last year, many of them children and teens. That's the highest number since 2005 and among the worst years in more than half a century, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. Full Story Top Laser Technology Might Help Doctors Diagnose Melanoma Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've developed a new and potentially more accurate way to diagnose melanoma lesions, using laser technology. Full Story Top Microchip Spots Cancerous Tumors Within an Hour, Study Shows Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they have developed a microchip that can be attached to a smart phone and diagnose cancerous tumors within an hour, from the patient's bedside. Full Story Top Mammograms less accurate in breast cancer survivors: study Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:57 pm PST Reuters - Mammography is less accurate at spotting breast cancer if a woman has had the disease before, according to a U.S. government-funded study. Full Story Top Gastric Bypass or Lap Band Surgery? Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:00 pm PST ContributorNetwork - If you're one of the millions of overweight Americans and has been considering weight-loss surgery, the results of a new study comparing the safety and effectiveness of gastric bypass surgery and lap-band surgery may interest you. The study, titled "Better Weight Loss, Resolution of Diabetes, and Quality of Life for Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass vs. Banding," written by Guilherme M. Campos, M.D., et al. appeared in the February publication "Archives of Surgery." Full Story Top Pot Use May Mellow Out Men's Sexual Function Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:14 am PST LiveScience.com - Marijuana users sometimes report that pot enhances their desire for sex. But a new review of research on marijuana and sexual health suggests that male smokers could be courting sexual dysfunction. Full Story Top Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 23, 2011 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: Full Story Top Violent Video Games May Not Desensitize Kids: Study Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- A long-standing concern among parents and researchers has been that young people who are exposed to violent video games may become desensitized to violent acts and images, but a new study suggests that may not be the case. Full Story Top Autopsies Reveal Alzheimer's Often Misdiagnosed Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia is not always clear-cut, raising the possibility of misdiagnoses among many seniors. Full Story Top Sidewalk Rage: Mental Illness or 'Altruistic Punishment?' Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:30 am PST Time.com - For many residents of New York City, our bodies are our cars Full Story Top Breast cancer screening less accurate in survivors Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:35 pm PST Reuters - Screening mammography is less accurate at spotting breast cancer if a woman has had the disease before, according to a new government-funded study. Full Story Top Early Childhood Might Affect Love Life in Adult Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- How quickly and smoothly people move on from a lover's quarrel has a lot to do with the relationships each partner had in earliest childhood with the people who raised them, new research reveals. Full Story Top AIDS Relief Plan Spurs Approval of HIV Drug Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:01 pm PST ContributorNetwork - The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) spurred the FDA to declare tentative approval of the generic abacavir sulfate oral solution for the treatment of HIV-1. Ziagen-equivalent abacavir sulfate is made by Cipla, Ltd. of Mumbai, India. Full Story Top Vitamin D may help keep blood sugar under control Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:26 pm PST Reuters - Drinking yogurt with extra vitamin D may help people with diabetes regulate their blood sugar, a study from Iran finds. Full Story Top Climate change creates longer ragweed season Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:44 pm PST Reuters - A changing climate means allergy-causing ragweed pollen has a longer season that extends further north than it did just 16 years ago, U.S. scientists reported on Monday. Full Story Top

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