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The Great Obesity Survey The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. Also covered is county-specific data for Type 2 diabetes.   |
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Don't Blame Fast Food You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. |
Popular Mechanics
November 17, 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Five Body Parts You May Be Able to Regrow Soon(ish) New hope for injured hearts, lungs, arms and legs as well as other body regeneration strategies. |
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STDs On The Rise Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, government health officials said. Better screening may be the reason. |
Popular Mechanics
November 12, 2009
Bijal P. Trivedi |
5 Animal Genomes That May Hold Cures to Human Diseases Having the genomic information will guide pharmaceutical assessments and new experimental gene therapies, many of which are being done in animals. |
| AskMen.com |
Is Smoking Back? Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Signs You're A Healthy Guy What does it mean to be healthy? Thankfully, that's a question that AM can help answer. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Removing Radiation Roadblock Researchers have found the protein that makes some tumors unresponsive to radiation. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Blue Baby Blues A congenital heart defect is explained by new genetic clues. |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Kendall Powell |
The Most Vulnerable Patients The research of several HHMI investigators is aimed at these most vulnerable patients -- developing fetuses and babies that are born too early. |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Patricia Thomas |
Taming Fear, Rising Calm Kerry Ressler, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist tries to ease the consequences of inner city trauma. |
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Cholesterol & The Prostate A new study suggests that men may be able to lower their risk of getting the most aggressive form of prostate cancer by keeping their cholesterol in a healthy range. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mark Wolverton |
How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer To target cancer cells alone, the University of Pennsylvania is opening a next-generation treatment facility that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver pinpoint strikes. |
Nursing
November 2009
Laskowski-Jones & Jones |
Winter emergencies: Managing ski and snowboard injuries This article provides an overview of ski- and snowboard-related trauma, describes injury management considerations in the field, and offers advice for snow sport injury prevention and safety. |
Health
October 20, 2009
Kimberly Holland |
What 5 Common Symptoms Really Mean If only your body were a little more honest, figuring out what's wrong when you don't feel right would be so much easier. |
Health
October 20, 2009
Lori Buckley |
How to Have Hotter Sex There are many factors -- including stress and fatigue -- that can affect sexual desire. |
Health
October 19, 2009
Cara Birnbaum |
What Doctors Don't Tell You About C-sections Here's the real story, and what every woman needs to know before she gets pregnant. |
Fast Company
November 2009
David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
HHMI Bulletin
August 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Proceed with Caution For each man with prostate cancer, which treatment gets the green light? |
HHMI Bulletin
August 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Finding the Off-Switch Blocking a common genetic variation in Huntington's patients might diminish the disease's effects. |
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