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Chronic Lyme disease: A dubious diagnosis
Dr. Bernard Raxlen arrived at Manhattan's glamorous Gotham Hall on a cool autumn night in 2008 to receive a humanitarian award.
With a lime-green Lyme disease advocacy ribbon pinned to his dapper black suit, Raxlen joined partygoers sipping martinis...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fibromyalgia, AIDS
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Videos illuminate realities of end-stage procedures
End-of-life choices and treatment decisions are rarely discussed in the medical community, despite expert advice meant to encourage communication, studies suggest. As a result, many patients spend their final days receiving invasive treatments that they...
Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, Emergency Health Procedures
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Some mothers can't breast-feed
After struggling to breast-feed her first two children, Nyssa Retter was determined to do better with her third. She gave birth without painkillers, which may make newborns slightly drowsy. She chose a free-standing birth center staffed with lactation-...
Tags: Nursing, Breast Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Viagra (drug), Physiology
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In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath
Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...
Tags: Jihad, Sports, Religion and Belief, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Hearing loss partially reversed in noise-damaged ears of mice
Anyone who’s gone to too many rock concerts or worked with loud machinery for too long (or listened to too many kazillion-decibel advertisements at a movie theater) may eventually pay the price: hearing loss caused by damage to tiny, sound-...
Tags: Science and Technology, Pete Townshend, Hearing Impairment, Eric Clapton
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Yoga might help boost mental health
As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you're not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you're also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Yoga...
Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Stress, Anxiety, Duke University
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Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia
Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was limited to her husband's Barcalounger, where she had to...Tags: Health, AIDS, Physiology, Health Treatments, Human Body
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Saving precious memories: Experts talk brain breakthroughs [Live]
Got burning questions about how memories are made and stored in the brain? You are in luck: Two prominent neuroscientists are taking questions from the public about memory and the brain on Google Chat today and you can watch it live, here. The hangout...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Alzheimer's Disease, Barack Obama, Google Inc.
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Food as medicine? What to make of the claims.
What's a healthful food and what's a healing food? Is there a difference? At least since the mid-19th century, when the Battle Creek Sanitarium opened its doors and people flocked there to follow John Harvey Kellogg's regime of whole grains, nuts and...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Philosophy, Religion and Belief, Health Treatments, Coconut
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Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
Patients who lack health insurance are more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to a health plan -- even though emergency rooms are required to care for all comers regardless of ability to pay, according to...Tags: Health, Crimes, Harvard University, Government Health Care, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia)
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O's doctor becomes defense target in Angelos asbestos case
The Orioles' team doctor, William H. Goldiner, tended to orange-clad ballplayers at the same time as he diagnosed thousands of blue-collar workers with asbestos-related illnesses whose cases were taken up by prominent lawyer and team owner Peter G....
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Environmental Issues, Lawyers, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals
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Are expired medications still safe?
It is 2 a.m. and that cough and stuffy nose you have been battling is still keeping you up. You reach for the nighttime cold relief medicine only to find it expired a few months ago. If you take a dose to ease your symptoms, will you be putting yourself...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Over-the-Counter Medicines, Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines, Health and Medical Professionals
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