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Today's Health News: Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner Study: US has much higher obesity rate than Canada Army's new fitness tests add taste of battlefield World first artificial bronchus graft in France Study Finds Smoking Linked to Breast Cancer Risk New Chemo Drug May Benefit Some Breast Cancer Patients Obesity May Boost Odds of Aggressive Breast Cancer in Older Women Cameras Catch Tiny Krill Having Deep-Water Sex Clinical Trials Update: March 2, 2011 Smoking During Early Pregnancy May Put Baby's Heart at Risk Ibuprofen Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk 'Mancession' Portends Depressing Future for Men Often okay to skip prostate cancer treatment: study CDC Links Prescription Painkillers in Pregnancy to Birth Defects FDA finds no heart attack risk with HIV drug Tight Blood Sugar Control May Put Some Diabetics at Risk Kids Growing Up on Farms Less Likely to Have Asthma Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner Wed, 2 Mar 2011 05:09 pm PST AP - A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests. Full Story Top Study: US has much higher obesity rate than Canada Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:17 am PST AP - American adults have a significantly higher rate of obesity than their neighbors to the north, a new study says. Full Story Top Army's new fitness tests add taste of battlefield Tue, 1 Mar 2011 05:54 pm PST AP - Sit-ups don't make a soldier, the Army has decided. So its 30-year-old fitness requirements are getting a battlefield-inspired makeover. Full Story Top World first artificial bronchus graft in France Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:06 pm PST AFP - An articifial bronchus was successfully grafted onto a 78-year-old patient with lung cancer, a world first that avoided the complete removal of the lung, medical authorities announced. Full Story Top Study Finds Smoking Linked to Breast Cancer Risk Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Both smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke appear to increase the risk for breast cancer among postmenopausal women, new research shows. Full Story Top New Chemo Drug May Benefit Some Breast Cancer Patients Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- The new chemotherapy drug eribulin extends the lives of metastatic breast cancer patients who have received extensive treatment, according to a new study. Full Story Top Obesity May Boost Odds of Aggressive Breast Cancer in Older Women Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity is known to boost the risk of estrogen-fueled breast cancer in women past menopause. Now, new research suggests a link between postmenopausal obesity and an especially aggressive type of breast cancer that doesn't depend on estrogen to grow. Full Story Top Cameras Catch Tiny Krill Having Deep-Water Sex Wed, 2 Mar 2011 04:34 pm PST LiveScience.com - The sex lives of the ocean-dwelling crustaceans known as krill have been largely a mystery. Now deep-water cameras have revealed how, and where, these tiny animals do it.  Full Story Top Clinical Trials Update: March 2, 2011 Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: Full Story Top Smoking During Early Pregnancy May Put Baby's Heart at Risk Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Babies born to women who smoke in the first trimester of pregnancy are more likely to have a congenital heart defect than are the offspring of mothers who don't smoke, a new study shows. Full Story Top Ibuprofen Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Regular users of ibuprofen may be reducing their risk of Parkinson's disease, according to new research that echoes previous findings. Full Story Top 'Mancession' Portends Depressing Future for Men Wed, 2 Mar 2011 04:34 pm PST LiveScience.com - Societal and economic shifts may put more men in Western countries at risk for depression, scientists worry. Full Story Top Often okay to skip prostate cancer treatment: study Wed, 2 Mar 2011 02:23 pm PST Reuters - Many men with less aggressive forms of prostate cancer choose to forgo treatment, and a new study provides more evidence that this option is safe for older men, even those with riskier forms of the disease. Full Story Top CDC Links Prescription Painkillers in Pregnancy to Birth Defects Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Moms-to-be who take prescription opioid painkillers such as codeine, hydrocodone or oxycodone (Oxycontin) may increase the risk of birth defects in their newborns, according to a new U.S. government report. Full Story Top FDA finds no heart attack risk with HIV drug Tue, 1 Mar 2011 02:18 pm PST Reuters - An analysis of 26 clinical trials found no higher risk of heart attacks with AIDS drug abacavir compared with other HIV medicines, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Full Story Top Tight Blood Sugar Control May Put Some Diabetics at Risk Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Intensive blood sugar control doesn't benefit people with both type 2 diabetes and heart disease -- and it may harm them, researchers say. Full Story Top Kids Growing Up on Farms Less Likely to Have Asthma Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- In a European study that echoes the findings of other scientists, researchers have found that children who grow up on farms are less likely to develop childhood asthma. Full Story Top

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