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American Medical Association classifying obesity as a disease may open up ...
CBS News
(CBS News) The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a decision that could change the way physicians and insurance companies deal with the condition. The move, announced on Tuesday, will open up a range of ...
Weighty issue: Doctors at AMA vote to make obesity a diseaseWashington Times
AMA declares obesity a diseaseLos Angeles Times
Obesity is a disease, doctors' group saysNBCNews.com (blog)
Guardian Express -WXIA-TV
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MRI Screening Can ID Infections from Drug Injections
Laboratory Equipment
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the site of injection of a contaminated lot of a steroid drug — used to treat symptoms such as back pain — resulted in earlier identification of patients with probable or confirmed fungal spinal or paraspinal infection, ...
MRI May Spot Meningitis from Tainted SteroidsMedPage Today
MRI may help find infection from tainted injectionReuters
MRIs Spot 'Hidden' Fungal Infections From Tainted Steroid ShotsU.S. News & World Report
Medscape
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Getting enough sleep can prevent diabetes
HealthCentral.com
Are you getting enough sleep? It could help prevent type 2 diabetes. According to a new report from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, if men were to get more hours of sleep, they could lower the risk of developing diabetes. The body's ability to ...
Red-meat intake linked to increased risk of diabetesUSA TODAY
Reduce Your Diabetes Risk TonightMen's Health News
Bad news on red meat: Eating more is linked to diabetes riskLos Angeles Times
Reuters -Medical News Today -CBS News
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Choice of Health Plans to Vary Sharply From State to State
New York Times
When a typical 40-year-old uninsured woman in Maine goes to the new state exchange to buy health insurance this fall, she may have just two companies to choose from: the one that already sells most individual policies in the state, and a complete unknown ...
Obamacare Backers Ready Publicity PushWall Street Journal
Medical cost inflation to ebb in 2014CBS News
Report: Slowdown in health care costs to continueSan Francisco Chronicle
Politico -U.S. News & World Report
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UPDATE 1-Saudi Arabia says MERS coronavirus kills four more
Reuters
Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:11am IST. (Updates WHO's worldwide death toll, adds details). DUBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - Four more people have died and three more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health ...
Earliest known MERS outbreak, in Jordan, infected 10CBC.ca
MERS deaths at 33; researchers claim progressCNN
New SARS-Like Virus: How Big Is The Threat?Forbes
AFP -Medscape -Today.com
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Prenatal exposure to pollution raises risk of autism in kids
CNN
(TIME.com) -- Pollutants in the air are known to affect brain development, but the first national study of in utero exposure and autism rates raises new concerns. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) say that early-life exposure to pollution ...
Air pollution raises autism riskHealthCentral.com
Air pollution exposure while pregnant linked to autism riskCBS News
Autism Tied to Air Pollution, Brain-Wiring DisconnectionBloomberg
AFP -OregonLive.com -LiveScience.com
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Study claims to identify strain of cervical cancer virus that causes throat cancer
Firstpost
Mumbai: Awareness about cunnilingus causing throat cancer may have gone through the roof after actor Michael Douglas openly admitted that he may have contracted the ailment due to oral sex. A problem for doctors has been that there are over 100 strains ...
Blood test for oral cancers caused by HPV may be on horizonCBS News
Blood tests could detect sexually-transmitted oral cancersReuters
Can You Get HPV From Oral Sex?EmpowHer
WFAA -CNN (blog) -natmonitor.com
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