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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Certain Antibiotics Are Now Less Commonly Used to Treat Respiratory Tract Infections, but Other Antibiotics Step Up By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 19, 2009 — Doctors aren’t writing prescriptions for certain antibiotics to treat children’s respiratory tract infections as much as they used to, a new study shows.
The researchers — who included Carlos Grijalva, MD, MPH,
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
American Heart Association Issues Guidelines on How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 24, 2009 — The American Heart Association today released new recommendations on limiting intake of added dietary sugars.
Back in 2006, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended minimizing consumption of beverages and foods with added sugars.
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Dutch researchers discover how a good laugh distracts us from negative emotions. By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 20, 2009 — After a rough day at the office or a nasty interchange with a rude store clerk, a great joke can often quickly lift us out of a bad mood.
Now, Dutch researchers think they’ve verified why this is so and how a joke helps us — most of the time – laugh
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Study Shows Brain Adapts to Protect Patients From Emotional Impact of Psoriasis By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 27, 2009 — Psoriasis can lead to physical scars, but the emotional scars from the skin disease can run deeper.
The thick, red, scaly skin lesions that characterize the condition often influence how people with psoriasis feel about themselves and how others see
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Surgeon, Family Opinions Affect Patients’ Decisions By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Sept. 1, 2009 — Thirty-eight-year-old mother of three Ellyn Davidson says she knew within seconds of hearing her breast cancer diagnosis two years ago that she wanted her breasts removed, even though she could have opted for breast-conserving surgery.
“My doctor called to tell me I had cancer
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Study Shows Link Between High Testosterone Levels and High-Risk Jobs in Finance By Caroline Wilbert
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 25, 2009 — Testosterone levels in women may affect their choice of career, according to a study.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examined the testosterone levels of about 500 MBA students at the University
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Study: 1 Million Men Suffered Needless Treatment After Prostate Cancer Test By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 31, 2009 — The PSA prostate cancer screening test does more harm than good, a new study suggests.
How much harm and how much good?
“For every man who avoids a prostate cancer death due to PSA screening, about 50 men have to be treated unnecessarily —
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
ABI Test Detects Asymptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 27, 2009 — People with peripheral artery disease (PAD) — even without symptoms — have a more than fourfold higher risk of bad outcomes after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke, a new study suggests.
But the same study finds that a simple test of blood pressure at the ankle
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Low-Carbohydrate Mediterranean Diet Better Than Low-Fat Diet at Managing Diabetes By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC
Aug. 31, 2009 — Eating a Mediterranean-style diet may help people with type 2 diabetes keep their disease under control without drugs better than following a typical low-fat diet.
A new study from Italy shows that people with type 2 diabetes who ate
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Monday, Aug. 31st 2009
Study: 1 Million Men Suffered Needless Treatment After Prostate Cancer Test By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Aug. 31, 2009 — The PSA prostate cancer screening test does more harm than good, a new study suggests.
How much harm and how much good?
“For every man who avoids a prostate cancer death due to PSA screening, about 50 men have to be treated unnecessarily —
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