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| Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies
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| Reuters - Babies younger than six months
old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns
Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents.
Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a
potentially life-threatening condition known as water
intoxication. -- read full article |
| Tue, 27 May 2008 18:50:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Laser Therapy a New Option for Vocal-Cord Cancers
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new laser treatment for early
vocal-cord cancer targets tumor blood vessels while preserving and
restoring patients' voices, according to Massachusetts General Hospital
researchers, who noted that radiotherapy or surgery can permanently damage
vocal quality. -- read full article |
| Tue, 27 May 2008 03:47:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Researchers studying better insect repellants
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| AP - Researchers have identified seven possibilities for the next generation of mosquito repellant, some of which may work several times longer than the current standard-bearer, DEET. The next step: safety testing to make sure they're not harmful. -- read full article |
| Tue, 27 May 2008 07:49:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Conditions ripe for disease in Myanmar delta
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| AP - Myint Hlaing's family bathes and draws cooking water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter suffers from diarrhea, despite drinking bottled water donated by aid groups.
-- read full article |
| Tue, 27 May 2008 07:42:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Laser Therapy a New Option for Vocal-Cord Cancers
(HealthDay)
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new laser treatment for early
vocal-cord cancer targets tumor blood vessels while preserving and
restoring patients' voices, according to Massachusetts General Hospital
researchers, who noted that radiotherapy or surgery can permanently damage
vocal quality. -- read full article |
| Mon, 26 May 2008 18:02:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Mild insulin pump-related skin problems common
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - Many children and teens using
insulin pumps to control type 1 diabetes experience skin
problems at the infusion catheter insertion site, but few
report thinking about stopping insulin pump therapy because of
these problems. -- read full article |
| Mon, 26 May 2008 14:54:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Suicides linked to work-related stress up in Japan
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| AP - The number of people who committed suicide or tried to in Japan because of work-related stress has doubled in the last five years, a government report said, illustrating the growing anxiety many here feel from increased workloads and competition. -- read full article |
| Sat, 24 May 2008 10:54:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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