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Hair shows chronic stress link to heart attacks

Chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks, according to an Israeli-Canadian study of stress hormone levels in hair.

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OxyContin worries misplaced: pain experts

Ontario's new strategy to restrict inappropriate use of opioid painkillers like OxyContin could discourage doctors from prescribing them when needed, pain experts say.

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More than 49 million Americans 'food insecure': Study

More than 49 million people in the United States do not have regular access to nutritious meals, putting them at risk for a raft of physical, psychological and social problems, a report said Thursday.

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Kitchen survey shows health risks

A study from California's Los Angeles County found only 61 per cent of home kitchens would get an A or B if put through the rigours of a restaurant inspection.

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Pampers Dry Max diapers not linked to rash

No link has been found between Pampers diapers with Dry Max liners and diaper rash, Canadian and U.S. officials say.

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Groups of friends key to changing health behaviours

When it comes to changing health behaviors, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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Eating out with food allergies

Chris Niddrie is a trained chef who is very, very careful when he eats out. It’s not that he’s picky, it’s that he has a serious food allergy: celiac disease, a medical condition in which the small intestine is damaged by gluten.

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Promising new one-dose malaria drug discovered

Researchers have discovered a promising new malaria drug with the potential to treat resistant strains of the deadly disease in a single dose, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

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West Nile virus kills 13 in Greece

West Nile virus has killed 13 people in Greece, health authorities say.

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JAMA editor to leave

Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is leaving the post next year to return to Johns Hopkins medical school.

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Botox maker to pay $600 million for off-label misuse

Allergan, the maker of the popular anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, said Wednesday it had agreed to pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal marketing for so-called off-label uses.

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New test can diagnose tuberculosis in under 2 hours

A new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid can diagnose TB and detect a drug-resistant form of it far more easily and rapidly than other tests currently available, scientists said on Wednesday.

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Diabetes drug may keep lung cancer at bay

The common diabetes drug metformin may hold promise as a way to keep smokers from developing lung cancer, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

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Dementia risk double in PTSD veterans: study

Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder may have a higher risk of dementia than those without the stress disorder, a U.S. study suggests.

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TB test could revolutionize care: WHO

A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has tuberculosis and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it, scientists have found.

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Health experts warn of "stem cell tourism" dangers

Thousands of people are putting their health and life savings at risk to travel to private clinics around the world for unproven and potentially dangerous stem cell treatments, British experts said on Tuesday.

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Quebec groups call for more sex ed

A coalition of Quebec women's groups and health professionals say they are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases among young people, and the coalition says the provincial government's education reform is to blame.

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Leaving N.L. for pregnancy care an ordeal: patient

A woman who is one of 11 in the past month to have been sent out of Newfoundland and Labrador for medical care because the province's hospitals couldn't handle her high-risk pregnancy says her experience was horrible.

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Mental activity may slow, then speed up dementia

Mental activity such as crossword puzzles, reading or listening to the radio may slow the decline of cognitive skills initially, but speed up dementia later in old age, according to new research.

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Drug costs would push millions more into poverty: Study

Tens of millions of people in low and middle income countries would be pushed below the poverty line by buying common but vital medicines which are already unaffordable to hundreds of millions more, a study has found.

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