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Put Safety First on the 4th

FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Celebrations including fireworks cause almost 10,000 injuries every year in the United ...

Many More Kids Vaccinated For Hepatitis A

July 3, 2009 - 6:52am

One-dose hepatitis A vaccination coverage among U.S. infants ages 24 months to 35 months increased from 26.3 percent in 2006 to 47.4 percent in 2007, says a federal government study released Thursday.

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Immune System

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Cell Pathway May Be Key to Lung Cancer's Spread

July 3, 2009 - 6:49am

(HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've found a major cellular flaw that may drive the rapid spread of relapsed lung cancer.

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Lung Cancer

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Living Alone Increases Odds of Developing Dementia

July 3, 2009 - 6:47am

(HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or widowed, according to a new study by Swedish and Finnish researchers.

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Odd Behaviors on Ambien Linked to Brain Circuitry

July 2, 2009 - 4:08pm

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- New information about brain circuit activity may help explain why some people who take the sleep aid Ambien (zolpidem) walk, eat, talk on the phone and even drive

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Brain & Nerves

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Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Often Overweight

July 2, 2009 - 4:03pm

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with type 1 diabetes are more likely to be overweight than those without the disease, increasing their risk of serious health complications, researchers s

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Diabetes Type 1

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Leave Troubling Thoughts and Feelings Where You Find Them

Written by Guy Finley on July 2, 2009 - 1:33pm

Imagine for a moment what your life might be like if you never again were to pick up a complaining thought or feeling.

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Anxiety

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If 2 Painkillers Are Banned, What Next?

July 2, 2009 - 1:04pm

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Banning the popular painkillers Percocet and Vicodin, which a U.S.

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Prescription Drug Addiction

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Why Swine Flu Differs From Seasonal Flu

July 2, 2009 - 12:56pm

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have uncovered some intriguing clues about why the new swine flu frequently brings on gastrointestinal distress and vomiting, symptoms not usually assoc

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Influenza

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C-Section Stress Could Alter Baby's Immune Cells

July 2, 2009 - 12:52pm

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Babies delivered by cesarean section experience changes to the DNA of white blood cells, which might explain why they're at increased risk for immunological diseas

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