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Screening speech may aid autism diagnosis - study
The Star
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A device may be able to automatically screen young children for autism based on how they talk, U.S. researchers said on Monday. An autistic child looks out from behind a chair at a consulting centre for autism in Amman, in this March 30, 2010 file photo, one of the few place...
Kansas medical board files complaint over physician's referrals for late-term abortions
Kansas City Star
More News | WICHITA | A medical regulatory board has filed a disciplinary complaint against a Kansas doctor over referrals for late-term abortions to the now-deceased abortion provider George Tiller. | The State Board of Healing Arts' 11-count petiti...
Physician's Assistant Convicted of Conspiring to Defraud Medicaid
Newsvine
| McALLEN, TX—Local Physician Assistant Manuel Anthony Puig, 44, has pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Texas Medicaid program, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced today. Manuel Puig, doi...
Wichita physician to lead statewide pain specialists organization
The Business Review
Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | A Wichita physician will lead a statewide org...
LifeLink transfers physician practice to Tampa General Hospital
The Business Review
Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | , a physician practice focused on transplant ...
Disparities Remain A Challenge In Health Care Says American College Of Physicians
redOrbit
| Racial and ethnic disparities remain a challenge for patients in the U.S. health care system, the American College of Physicians (ACP) said in an updated paper released today. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Updated 2010, an update to...
Heart failure care improved by performance intervention at outpatient cardiology practices
PhysOrg
| A study led by UCLA tested a new performance intervention to help improve adherence to national guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure patients in an outpatient setting. | Heart failure is a chronic, progressive disease that impacts mill...
OSU physicians helping doctors in Iraq through teleconferences
The Oklahoman
  BY KIM ARCHER, Tulsa World Oklahoman    Leave a comment | TULSA — Several doctors at Kadhamiyah Teaching Hospital in a dangerous section of Baghdad spoke last week by video with doctors at Oklahoma State University College of H...
Distant diagnosis
Tulsa World
The room full of doctors on the large TV screen spoke over one another, enthusiastically and in Arabic. | "We want to know your needs and how we can help you," Dr. Stanley Grogg, interim provost and dean of the Oklahoma State University College of He...
Woman - Obesity - Nutrition - Food
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Nutrition scoring system is latest attempt to combat America's obesity problem
The Examiner
| NuVal's scoring system is designed to help consumers easily make healthy food choices. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for OMEGA If you like this ... Can a multivitamin help you lose...
Calcium-Tablets
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Calcium supplements play an important role in maintaining bone health
PhysOrg
| A broad range of scientific research has demonstrated that an adequate intake of calcium plays an important role in building and maintaining optimum bone mass, and a recent meta-...
Snake at  Zoo
GFDL / Ltshears
Snake venom may hold key for heart disease, cancer cure
Zeenews
Washington: Japanese scientists have claimed that a number of toxins found in snake venom could help develop new therapies for chronic diseases like heart attack, stroke and cancer...
Pill, Drug
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Statins have proven benefits and aren't prescribed lightly
Canada Dot Com
| Re: Cholesterol drugs don't help the healthy, July 26 | The op-ed piece by pharmaceutical policy researcher Alan Cassels implies that elevated cholesterol levels are not a risk f...
Erik Compton watches his shot on the seventh hole during the second round of the U.S. Open golf tournament
AP / Chris Carlson
Compton tops Greenbrier
The Boston Globe
| Erik Compton is a walking billboard for organ donation and sheer determination. | He's also at the top of the Greenbrier Classic leaderboard. | Playing on a late sponsor exemptio...
Eggs - Food
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Eggs could cut heart defects
The Times Of India
Various studies have revealed that choline, which is present in eggs in abundance, is associated with decreased rate of heart defects during prenatal development. | Researchers exa...
Pill, Vitamin
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Calcium linked to higher risk of heart attacks
The Guardian
| Many older people, especially women, take calcium supplements to help keep their bones strong. But a new review of studies suggests these supplements may also slightly increase t...
Elderly Woman
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Do you have a predisposition for Alzheimer's Disease?
The Examiner
| Alzheimer's Disease health | Most people do not become interested in advocating a particular disease until it strikes their family or themselves personally. It's simply human...
Drug, Medicine, Pill
Creative Commons / Barbara Chung
Vitamin D deficiency linked to arterial stiffness in black teens
PhysOrg
| Vitamin D deficiency is associated with arterial stiffness, a risk factor for heart disease and stroke, in black teens according to a new study accepted for publication in The En...
Fat - Overweight - Cholesterol
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Weight-Loss: The Real Secret Weapon ...
The Examiner
|  It’s not a pill.  It’s not a diet.  It’s really quite simple.  Keeping a daily exercise and nuttrition journal is the true secret weap...
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Cancer Humble protein, nanoparticles tag-team to kill cancer cells
PhysOrg
| Transferrin-carrying nanoparticles that have targeted and permeated Ramos cancer cells. Areas of yellow represent the intracellular compartments of ... (photo: Creative Commons / Pulmonary Pathology)
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Kim Kardashian, left, greets Rick Hilton as she poses on the red carpet at the 2009 Fox Reality Channel Really Awards in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. Celeb lookalike surgery requests raise red flags
CNN
Plastic surgery Kim Kardashian clone? | (CNN) -- Nicole Kidman's nose. Angelina Jolie's lips. Plastic surgeons say they get these very specific reques... (photo: AP / Chris Pizzello)
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Blood Pressure Researchers identify risks of hypertension in young adults
PhysOrg
| Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hyp... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
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Belly Fat Fix your fat belly now!
The Times Of India
We share with you four easy ways to fix your belly fat. Mind you, they are not exercises... | Are you also worried about your ‘jelly’ belly like m... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
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Brown Rice Eat Brown Rice, Lower Diabetes Risk
KDVR
White rice is essentially brown rice that has been processed to remove the outer bran and germ parts of the rice. This is why brown rice is considered... (photo: Creative Commons / YoAmes)
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