General Health Articles:
General Health Articles features articles and news on alcohol treatment and rehabilitation, allergies, clinical trials, quitting smoking and sexual health.
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Nov 20th, 2009
Scientists have discovered a new type of immune cells, Th22, which can protect the body against inflammation. This may lead the way to new treatments for inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis and respiratory diseases such as asthma.
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Nov 19th, 2009
The makers of Vicks Sinex Nasal Spray voluntarily recalled approximately 120,000 bottles after finding the bacteria Burkholderia cepacia in a small amount of the product made in Germany and sold in the United States. Thus far, no one has reported becoming ill after using the nasal spray.
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Nov 14th, 2009
Arkansas Lt Governor Bill Halter held a press conference yesterday to encourage more nurses and doctors to volunteer for the free health care clinic to be held Saturday November 21st in downtown Little Rock.
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Nov 10th, 2009
Do you think your doctor spends enough time with you during your office visits? Researchers report that primary care doctors spent more time with their adult patients during office visits in 2005 than they did about ten years earlier.
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Oct 27th, 2009
The day was August 26th. Harvard medical school researchers were just having another day at the office. The pathology lab workers were studying mice and how diseases interact with the immune system, writes Associated Press. Unbeknownst to these six researchers, their coffee had been poisoned with sodium azide, a white odorless solid that produces a deadly gas when mixed with water.
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Oct 23rd, 2009
There are now over 3,000 registered healthcare lobbyists on Capitol Hill. When you think of this, that's six lobbyists for every single member of Congress. This makes it quite easy for the drug industry to get what they want concerning healthcare reform.
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Oct 21st, 2009
Schools across America are spreading the red ribbon week message. It is a message of drug prevention. Driving by a school, you may notice red ribbons hung up on fences, or you may see all the kids playing out on the playground wearing all red tops. Red Ribbon Week is one of the “oldest and largest drug prevention campaigns in the country,“ writes drugsrdumb.com.
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Oct 20th, 2009
Adults who do not have health insurance are likely to have a chronic illness such as diabetes or high cholesterol and not even know it, according to the results of a new study conducted by a research team from Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance. When such illnesses go undiagnosed and untreated, the uninsured are at greater risk of expensive, disabling, and deadly complications of their disease.
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Oct 19th, 2009
President Obama plans to change medical marijuana policy – the Federal government will no longer prosecute medical marijuana users or their suppliers – as long as they remain in compliance with the law.
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Oct 16th, 2009
The placebo effect is a measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health or behavior not attributable to a medication or invasive treatment that has been administered. Placebo is Latin for “I shall please” and describes a pharmacologically inert substance, such as saline or a sugar pill, that produces an effect that is similar to that which would be expected of an active substance.