Archive for September, 2006

New Formula Predicts Osteoporosis Fracture Risk

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

(HealthDay News) — Australian researchers say they’ve developed a mathematical formula that’s 75 percent

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Caring for your skin

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

A daily skin care regimen goes a long way in keeping one’s skin healthy and beautiful. You have to give your

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Health Tip: Treating a Skin Abscess

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

(HealthDay News) — A skin abscess occurs when pus and infected material accumulate in an area of the skin.

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Supplements – Men, Women and Children.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

of us, maybe at least a couple of times in the week, feel so low that we might do anything to avoid the next

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Lymph Node Test Helps Fight Melanoma

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

(HealthDay News) — Using so-called “sentinel node” biopsies to determine if melanoma has started to spread

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Vitamin D May Lower Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

(HealthDay News) — Consuming the recommended daily amount of vitamin D could nearly halve your risk for deadly pancreatic cancer, new research suggests.

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Massage Therapy

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

The oldest of the “hands on” therapies, from which every other branch of physical therapy has evolved, massage

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DIET AND DETOX

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Today we live at a pace that would have seemed unbelievable and indeed impossible to our grandparents.

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One in 10 Mammograms Comes Back Abnormal

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

(HealthDay News) — About one in 10 mammograms comes back abnormal, according to a study by researchers from the University of New Mexico and their colleagues.

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Heavy Drinking May Speed Progression to AIDS

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

(HealthDay News) — Heavy drinking may speed up the time to developing AIDS, possibly by damaging the immune system, new animal research suggests.

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