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| A push for family input to detect dementia earlier
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:56:31 GMT
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| Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars: CDC
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:49:17 GMT AP - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list. |
| Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:35:18 GMT
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| Certain Cancer Drugs May Have Fatal Side Effects: Analysis
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:07:26 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with three relatively new cancer drugs may be linked to a slightly increased risk of death, a new analysis suggests. |
| Ovarian cancer screening popular despite guidelines
(Reuters)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:20:22 GMT Reuters - Despite expert guidelines and scientific evidence to the contrary, a third of U.S. primary care physicians believe ovarian cancer screening is effective and many would offer it to patients, according to a new survey. |
| FDA questions Amgen drug for prostate cancer
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:11:48 GMT AP - Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects. |
| Study: Family Intervention, Parent Education Reduce Childhood Obesity
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:38:51 GMT ContributorNetwork - A study published in the February issue of Pediatrics shows family intervention aimed at improving parenting skills reduced behavior problems in kids and obesity and associated health problems. One-third of Americans, including children ages 2 to 17, are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics. Here are details about parent-child interventions. |
| Diet supplements recalled on unlabeled drug worries
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:50:29 GMT Reuters - Healthy People Co is recalling 15 lots of seven different dietary supplements because they contain appetite suppressants or a drug for male erectile dysfunction, the Long Beach, California, company said. |
| DEA raids 2 CVS pharmacies in drug abuse probe
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:19:07 GMT Reuters - The Drug Enforcement Administration said on Monday it raided two CVS pharmacies over the weekend as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers and other potentially addictive substances. |
| Thousands of U.S. Kids Hospitalized for Abuse
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:07:37 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Close to 4,600 kids in the United States were hospitalized as a result of child abuse in one recent year, and 300 of them died, a new study shows. |
| Health Tip: How to Protect Seniors From Injury
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:07:38 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Creating a home safety checklist can help seniors prevent injuries and let them prepare if they happen to fall or hurt themselves. |
| Could a Blood Test Help Spot Depression?
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:47:17 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Depression can be a tough condition to diagnose accurately, but new research suggests that someday a blood test might help. |
| Soy Supplements May Not Shield Against Breast Cancer
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:47:07 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Soy supplements do not protect women against breast cancer, a new study suggests. |
| Spanking Produces Troubled Kids, Study Contends
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:07:32 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more fuel to the controversial topic of children and spanking, two Canadian child development experts have published a new analysis that warns that physical punishment poses serious risks to a child's long-term development. |
| Study Looks at Possible HIV Drugs-Birth Defect Link
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:47:03 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women with HIV can prevent passing the AIDS-causing virus to their babies by taking antiretroviral drugs, but there remains a possibility that some of these medications might cause birth defects, such as cleft lip and palate, according to a new study. |
| Pancreas May 'Taste' Fructose, Hinting at Links to Diabetes
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:07:23 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that the pancreas has sweet-taste receptors -- like those found on the tongue -- that can "taste" fructose. |
| Heartburn Meds Won't Help, May Harm Kids With Asthma
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Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:47:44 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Children with asthma who don't have heartburn and other signs of gastroesophageal reflux don't get additional asthma control from acid-reducing medications, according to new research. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.