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| Teachers become nurses as schools get squeezed
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|  AP - During the past two school years, teacher Julia Keyse had to enforce an unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-grade classroom: No interrupting while she pricked Caylee's finger to check her blood sugar and adjusted her insulin pump.
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| Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:39:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Study: When kids become teens, they get sluggish
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|  AP - One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do.
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| Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:08:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Laparoscopic gastric bypass provides better results
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| Reuters - Performing gastric bypass
surgery to reduce the weight of morbidly obese patients using a
laparoscopic method, rather than the conventional more invasive
"open" abdominal method, reduces postoperative complications,
the need for a second operation, and shortens hospital stays,
new research shows. Nevertheless, laparoscopic gastric bypass
is more expensive. -- read full article |
| Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:15:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Physical fitness may slow Alzheimer brain atrophy
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| AP - Getting a lot of exercise may help slow brain shrinkage in people with early Alzheimer's disease, a preliminary study suggests. Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than less-fit participants. However, they didn't do significantly better on tests for mental performance. -- read full article |
| Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:43:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Colon Cancer Screening Rates Remain Low
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Only half of U.S. men and women
older than 50 are getting screened for colorectal cancer, despite the
success these tests have in reducing deaths linked to the disease, a new
report says. -- read full article |
| Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:47:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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