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    New Tests Assess Kids' Sense of Smell, Taste (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- A series of tests that are the first to accurately assess children's ability to taste and smell have been developed by Australian researchers. -- read full article
    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:47:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Medication Reduces Violence in Some Schizophrenics (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Taking prescription medications can help reduce violent behavior in some schizophrenia patients, Duke researchers report. -- read full article
    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:47:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Lots of Sex May Prevent Erectile Dysfunction (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Frequent sexual intercourse may cut down on a man's chances of developing erectile dysfunction, Finnish researchers report. -- read full article
    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:47:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Filipina with upside-down feet walks for 1st time (AP)

    Jingle Luis, a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines who was born with severely clubbed feet, steps in to an elevator at New York's Montefiore Medical Center under the watchful eye of Dr. Terry Amaral, Wednesday July 2, 2008. Doctors took off her post-surgical casts and replaced them with special support braces and her first pair of shoes that allowed her to take her first unaided steps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A Filipino teenager who came to New York so doctors could perform surgery to untwist her severely clubbed feet took her first unaided steps Wednesday in pink-and-white sneakers — the first shoes she's ever worn.


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    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:07:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects (AP)

    A slice of watermelon is shown at the Gutierrez Produce stand at the Dallas Farmers Market, Tuesday, July 1, 2008, in Dallas. Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body's blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks going all night long.


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    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:48:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Some psych patients wait days in hospital ERs (AP)

    In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green lies face down on the floor in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body, but made no visible attempt to see if she needed help. Within an hour she was dead. (AP Photo/New York Civil Liberties Union)AP - When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm.


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    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:09:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Haywire brain chemical linked to sudden baby death (AP)
    AP - Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies — sudden infant death syndrome. -- read full article
    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:09:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Medication Reduces Violence in Some Schizophrenics (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Taking prescription medications can help reduce violent behavior in some schizophrenia patients, Duke researchers report. -- read full article
    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:02:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects (AP)

    A slice of watermelon is shown at the Gutierrez Produce stand at the Dallas Farmers Market, Tuesday, July 1, 2008, in Dallas. Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body's blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.


    -- read full article
    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Haywire brain chemical linked to sudden baby death (AP)
    AP - Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies — sudden infant death syndrome. -- read full article
    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:00:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokeless tobacco products (STPs), which include products such as snuff and chew tobacco, do increase the user's risk of cancer -- just not as much as smoking does. -- read full article
    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:47:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Alzheimer's less likely for men over 90 than women (Reuters)

    A young carer holds the hands of an elderly woman in a residential home for the elderly in Planegg near Munich June 19, 2007. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)Reuters - Men are much less likely than women to live into their 90s, but those who do have a much lower chance of having Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.


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    Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:26:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Cuba to Juba: south Sudanese doctors come home (Reuters)

    Dr Martha Martin Dar, a southern Sudanese doctor trained in Cuba, attends to patients at Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba June 14, 2008. They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud. Now, more than two decades later, some of them are back, working as doctors. (Skye Wheeler/Reuters)Reuters - They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud.


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    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:29:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Health Tip: Giving Medications to People With Alzheimer's (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- As a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer's, administering their medication -- and preventing missed pills or the wrong dosages -- can be a daunting responsibility. -- read full article
    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:47:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    FDA panel urges more testing for diabetes drugs (AP)
    AP - Diabetes drugs should face tougher safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions but protect patients from unforeseen heart risks, a government panel has recommended. -- read full article
    Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:29:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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