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More evidence hormone therapy can muddy mammograms

More evidence hormone therapy can muddy mammograms We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hormone replacement therapy after menopause may interfere with the accuracy of mammograms used to screen for breast cancer [...]

Early and late birth ups cerebral palsy risk

Early and late birth ups cerebral palsy risk We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Full-term babies born a bit on the early or late side are at higher risk of cerebral [...]

Monkeypox rising in wake of smallpox eradication

Monkeypox rising in wake of smallpox eradication We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some thirty years after authorities doled out the last dose of smallpox vaccine, the world faces another multiplying [...]

Finland’s emphysema rates hold steady

Finland’s emphysema rates hold steady We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Finland’s prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of serious lung diseases closely related to smoking, has held [...]

Proposed diabetes test misses most cases: study

Proposed diabetes test misses most cases: study We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new proposed diabetes test could miss millions of cases of diabetes and pre-diabetes and also over-diagnose black [...]

U.S. egg producers failed to follow own safety plans

U.S. egg producers failed to follow own safety plans We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two Iowa egg farms linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened thousands failed to follow their own [...]

Scientist devises faster test for detecting E.coli

Scientist devises faster test for detecting E.coli We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Purdue University food scientist using infrared spectroscopy took only an hour to find harmful E. coli bacteria in ground [...]

Drug cuts stroke risk by half vs aspirin: study

Drug cuts stroke risk by half vs aspirin: study We’re back again at this Health and Fitness blog where there are more fascinating snippets of health related news stories for you to read about: STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – An experimental drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer reduces the risk of stroke by more than half compared [...]

Major study finds no evidence that statins cause cancer

Major study finds no evidence that statins cause cancer Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: In the largest and most reliable study of its type, researchers in the UK and Australia have demonstrated that statin therapy is not a cause [...]

Marathon running is unlikely to cause long-term heart damage, German study shows

Marathon running is unlikely to cause long-term heart damage, German study shows Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: A study of 167 amateur runners at the 2006 and 2007 Berlin marathons is lowering concerns that this type of activity leads [...]