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Today's Health News: US teens, young adults 'doing it' less, study says CDC: A third of Americans don't sleep 7 hours Stomach pacemaker could help obese lose weight New Chemo Drug May Benefit Some Breast Cancer Patients Study Finds Third of Cancer Patients on Opioids Are Confused Tissue Analysis May Help Predict Breast Cancer Outcome Stigma Often Adds to Burden of Obesity Cameras Catch Tiny Krill Having Deep-Water Sex Clinical Trials Update: March 3, 2011 Michelle Obama, Officials Announce Increased School Meal Efforts U.S. team makes key memory cells in lab dish Even Tiny Tots May Develop Mental Health Problems Lung cancer: 'Artificial airway' transplant is world first New York City requires more disclosure on abortion FDA finds no heart attack risk with HIV drug Amylin, Lilly diabetes drug falls short of Novo's US pulls 500 unauthorized prescription drugs US teens, young adults 'doing it' less, study says Thu, 3 Mar 2011 04:09 pm PST AP - Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they're doing it less. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence. Full Story Top CDC: A third of Americans don't sleep 7 hours Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:11 am PST AP - More than a third of U.S. adults sleep less than seven hours a night, and many of them report troubles concentrating, remembering and even driving. Full Story Top Stomach pacemaker could help obese lose weight Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:41 am PST AP - Patrick Hetzner tried diets and exercise, just about everything short of stomach stapling to lose weight. Nothing worked. Five months ago he tried something new: a stomach pacemaker that curbed his appetite. Full Story Top New Chemo Drug May Benefit Some Breast Cancer Patients Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:48 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 Study Finds Third of Cancer Patients on Opioids Are Confused Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- About a third of cancer patients taking opioid painkillers experience cognitive problems such as confusion, disorientation and forgetfulness, a new study finds. Full Story Top Tissue Analysis May Help Predict Breast Cancer Outcome Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- An analysis of breast tissue may help doctors better predict outcomes for women with breast cancer, a new study reports. Full Story Top Stigma Often Adds to Burden of Obesity Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Obese people are already at risk for a range of health issues, but their problems can be made worse if they feel they are being discriminated against because of their weight, researchers say. Full Story Top Cameras Catch Tiny Krill Having Deep-Water Sex Thu, 3 Mar 2011 05:15 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 3, 2011 Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: Full Story Top Michelle Obama, Officials Announce Increased School Meal Efforts Thu, 3 Mar 2011 04:12 pm PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | On Wednesday, Michelle Obama teamed up with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Education Secretary Arne Duncan and announced increased efforts and funding to double the schools participating in the HealthierUS School Challenge Program. As part of the first lady's Let's Move initiative, the HUSCP is a voluntary program that rewards schools for improving their nutritional offerings and educational programs that teach children about the proper way to eat and get physical activity. Full Story Top U.S. team makes key memory cells in lab dish Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:01 pm PST Reuters - U.S. researchers have coaxed stem cells into becoming a type of brain cell that dies off early in people with Alzheimer's disease. Full Story Top Even Tiny Tots May Develop Mental Health Problems Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:47 pm PST HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Countering the belief that you have to be "older" to suffer from mental illness, a new report says there's actually no lowest-age limit. Full Story Top Lung cancer: 'Artificial airway' transplant is world first Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:42 am PST AFP - French doctors said on Thursday they were delighted at a medical first in which a 78-year-old man was given a section of artificial airway to save a lung afflicted by bronchial cancer. Full Story Top New York City requires more disclosure on abortion Thu, 3 Mar 2011 02:25 pm PST Reuters - New York City has approved a measure requiring "truth in advertising " from crisis pregnancy centers that critics said are deceiving women into thinking that they are medical facilities offering abortion. 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 Amylin, Lilly diabetes drug falls short of Novo's Thu, 3 Mar 2011 06:59 am PST Reuters - A long-awaited experimental diabetes medicine from Eli Lilly & Co and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc that patients need to inject only once a week failed to match up to a rival treatment taken daily, sending Amylin shares tumbling 25 percent. Full Story Top US pulls 500 unauthorized prescription drugs Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:07 am PST AFP - The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it wants 500 unauthorized prescription drugs for cough, cold and allergy symptoms pulled from the market because of risks to the public. Full Story Top

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