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Health and Fitness: EzineArticles.com  Fri, 10/31/2008 - 15:39

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Parents in Greater Numbers Reporting Childhood Food Allergies

MedPage Today Allergy & Immunology  Thu, 10/23/2008 - 16:59

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (MedPage Today) -- Reports by parents that their children have food allergies have increased sharply in the past decade, CDC researchers reported.


 

The Checkup

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 10/20/2008 - 23:00

Does Drinking Shrink the Brain? Our brains decrease in size by about 2 percent per decade. And the brains of drinkers may shrink more quickly, according to a study published in the Archives of Neurology.

Those who drank most saw the most shrinkage. Women's brains were affected more than men's,...


 

Strong growth in Medicaid anticipated

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 16:27

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicaid's growing strain on federal and state budgets is unlikely to abate over the coming decade as the cost of providing health care to the poor is expected to increase 7.9 percent annually, government actuaries reported Friday....


 

National Anti-Drug Campaign Found Ineffective

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 14:56

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- A federally funded anti-drug media campaign during the first half of the decade did little to curb teen marijuana use, and may have increased it, researchers here found.


 

Smoking 'costs the NHS billions'

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Mon, 10/06/2008 - 18:21

Smoking is costing the NHS in England £2.7bn pounds a year, up from £1.7bn a decade earlier, a report claims.


 

State definition of medical pot supply criticized

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 00:23

The state Health Department on Thursday defined a two-month supply of medical marijuana as 24 ounces of usable pot and up to 15 plants, a limit designed to end a decade of confusion over how much patients are allowed to have.


 

Average ER waiting time nears 1 hour, CDC says

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 08/06/2008 - 09:26

ATLANTA (AP) -- The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday....


 

House Agrees to Lift HIV Travel Ban

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 09:15

WASHINGTON -- A move by the U.S. Congress to remove a two-decade-old ban preventing HIV-positive people from entering the country may persuade other nations to follow suit, the president of the International AIDS Society said.


 

Science Is Leading Us to More Answers, but It's Also Misleading ...

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 04/21/2008 - 23:00

Be careful what you wish for. That is the unexpected lesson of the past decade of biomedical research, which has been characterized by an overwhelming abundance of interesting things to study and powerful ways to study them.