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Today's Health News: Stroke study finds neck stents safe, effective 6 malaria cases reported for US soldiers in Haiti Study: High-fat diets raise stroke risk in women Interval training can cut exercise hours sharply UK publishes new rules for assisted suicide Panel recommends annual flu vaccinations for all Striking number of obesity risks hit minority kids Women and men travelers tend to get different illnesses Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 26, 2010 1 in 4 parents buys unproven vaccine-autism link Brain images suggest Alzheimer's drug is working Breast Cancer Survival and Double Mastectomy Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival Blood Test Might Sort Out Milk Allergies Experts recommend finetuning of HIV treatment Health Tip: What's Gastroparesis? Severe allergic reaction to meat may not be rare Obesity, Lack of Exercise Heighten Arthritis Risk for Women Stroke study finds neck stents safe, effective Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01 am PST AP - People at risk of a stroke because of narrowed neck arteries can be safely treated with a less drastic option than the surgery done now, the largest study ever done on these treatments concludes. Full Story Top 6 malaria cases reported for US soldiers in Haiti Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:28 pm PST AP - A U.S. military spokesman in Haiti says six American soldiers involved in the aid mission have come down with malaria. Full Story Top Study: High-fat diets raise stroke risk in women Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:56 am PST AP - A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds. We already know that diets rich in fat, particularly artery-clogging trans fat, are bad for the heart and the waistline. Full Story Top Interval training can cut exercise hours sharply Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:04 pm PST AP - People who complain they have no time to exercise may soon need another excuse. Some experts say intense exercise sessions could help people squeeze an entire week's workout into less than an hour. Those regimens — also called interval training — were originally developed for Olympic athletes and thought to be too strenuous for normal people. Full Story Top UK publishes new rules for assisted suicide Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:50 am PST AP - New guidelines published Thursday offer people in England and Wales broad hints about how to help a gravely ill loved one end their life with minimal fear of prosecution. Full Story Top Panel recommends annual flu vaccinations for all Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:56 am PST AP - A government panel is now recommending that virtually all Americans get a flu shot each year, starting this fall. Full Story Top Striking number of obesity risks hit minority kids Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:02 pm PST AP - The odds of obesity appear stacked against black and Hispanic children starting even before birth, provocative new research suggests. Full Story Top Women and men travelers tend to get different illnesses Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:08 pm PST Reuters - World travel can make anyone sick but men and women tend to suffer different illnesses with women more prone to stomach problems and men at higher risk of fevers and sexually transmitted diseases, Swiss researchers found. Full Story Top Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 26, 2010 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:50 pm PST HealthDay - (HealthDayNews) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: Full Story Top 1 in 4 parents buys unproven vaccine-autism link Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:02 pm PST AP - One in four U.S. parents believes some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated. Full Story Top Brain images suggest Alzheimer's drug is working Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:08 pm PST Reuters - New imaging technology suggests an experimental drug for Alzheimer's reduces clumps of plaque in the brain by around 25 percent, lifting hopes for a medicine that disappointed in clinical tests two years ago. Full Story Top Breast Cancer Survival and Double Mastectomy Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:40 am PST Time.com - Since cancer in one breast tends to spread to the other, healthy breast, more and more women are choosing to remove both, just to be safe. But does such preventive surgery help survival? Full Story Top Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:49 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Endometrial cancer patients at medium to high risk for cancer recurrence are more likely to survive if both the pelvic lymph nodes and para-aortic lymph nodes are removed, rather than just the pelvic lymph nodes, say Japanese researchers. Full Story Top Blood Test Might Sort Out Milk Allergies Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - SATURDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) -- A blood test may help identify children with milk allergy who can tolerate baked-milk products and those who may have a serious allergic reaction to any form of cow's milk, a new study shows. Full Story Top Experts recommend finetuning of HIV treatment Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:26 am PST Reuters - How quickly an HIV patient's immune system deteriorates may not affect the outcome of the illness, a study has found, and this could help change current guidelines for treatment of the disease. Full Story Top Health Tip: What's Gastroparesis? Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:50 pm PST HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Gastroparesis, commonly affecting people with diabetes, occurs when the vagus nerve is damaged and the stomach and intestines don't process food normally. As a result, the stomach takes too long to empty. Full Story Top Severe allergic reaction to meat may not be rare Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:01 pm PST Reuters - Eating meat may be a much more common trigger for anaphylaxis -- a severe and potentially deadly allergic reaction -- than previously thought, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. Full Story Top Obesity, Lack of Exercise Heighten Arthritis Risk for Women Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:49 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Higher levels of obesity and inactivity, especially among women, explain why arthritis is more common in the United States than in Canada, according to a new study. Full Story Top

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