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If you are disease free, but concerned about your heart-risks, try using both of the risk calculators available.
Compare both findings. Take these to your doctor and discuss them.
One risk calculator, the Reynolds risk calculator, as noted in the Forbes item below, assumes that the latest research study, called Jupiter, should be the new national guideline […]

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If you have a parent or close friend who is approaching 65, and who suffers from heart failure, start reading.
Medline Plus has excellent information and will be a good starting point.
Although behavioral choices are not the primary cause of heart failure, good choices can help reduce the effects of the symptoms—-shortness of breath being the […]

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Why does this matter to you as long as you’re feeling okay? Your local hospital is part of the community safety net—in emergencies, as employers and, in many cases, through outreach programs no other institution provides.
This story about a drop-off in paying patients among a few hospitals appears in the fourth quarter, when many workers […]

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Pregnancy News: The American Academy of Pediatrics has published the first study to make the connection between teenagers’ TV viewing habits and pregnancy.
The formula for trouble:
Teenagers + high levels of TV watching + watching highly explicit sex scenes = twice the number of pregnancies compared to peers, who watch less of this kind of TV […]

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By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
The New England Journal of Medicine has a new study in its October 30 issue, a comprehensive examination of hospital data, collected for the purpose of tracking patient experiences and satisfaction.
The data is available at the Department of Health and Human Services feature, Hospital Compare.
Much of the study is technical and of […]

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What can you do?
Talk to your child’s doctor about whether this vaccine can help your child avoid the misery of a rotavirus, a source of serious attacks of diarrhea. This is an oral vaccine given in three doses.

In 2007-2008 rotavirus cases declined by 60 percent over the previous five years, according to a CDC […]

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“The report says that 90 percent of cases of food allergies result from allergens including milk, eggs, peanuts, three nuts, fish, soy and wheat. But the report does not say why more children than ever suffer food allergies.  And what we know is that the allergic reactions are abnormal response of the immune […]

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If you or anyone in your family plays a competitive sport, this study is must-reading for you.
Sudden cardiac death offers athletes no warning signs that they are at risk.
This study of an estimated 30,000 Italian athletes, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), shows that an exercise electrocardiography test to be a much better way […]

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A new study from the Institute of Medicine recommends that children get 400 mg. of Vitamin D a day, double the previously recommended amount.
Many kids don’t even get the minimum, experts say, and Vitamin D is believed to offer protection against serious diseases.
Here are tips to help you be sure your kids get the right […]

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By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
An annual price tag for medication errors is calculated each year.
There can be no price tag assigned to patients’ preventable pain, avoidable complications, value of time lost at home, work or with friends, reversible and irreversible side effects and, yes, even death.<
Yet it is all too easy to make these mistakes.
Here […]