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Chemical found in crude oil linked to congenital heart disease: Fetal exposure to solvents may damage heart

Chemical found in crude oil linked to congenital heart disease: Fetal exposure to solvents may damage heart Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: While it may be years before the health effects of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf [...]

Maternal obesity puts infants at risk of iron deficiency

Maternal obesity puts infants at risk of iron deficiency Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Babies born to obese mothers are at risk for iron deficiency, which could affect infant brain development. Sourced from: ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News ItexMall [...]

Race a factor in whether young women are tested for sexually transmitted infections

Race a factor in whether young women are tested for sexually transmitted infections Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: When adolescent females visit a pediatric emergency department with complaints that may signal a sexually transmitted infection, white youths are less [...]

Emergency departments should be aware of sexually transmitted infection risk in patients: One-quarter of symptomatic adolescent females tested positive for an STI

Emergency departments should be aware of sexually transmitted infection risk in patients: One-quarter of symptomatic adolescent females tested positive for an STI Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: All adolescent females who show up in the emergency department complaining primarily [...]

Video games may help clear airway of cystic fibrosis patients

Video games may help clear airway of cystic fibrosis patients Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Video games controlled by the player’s breath can encourage youths with cystic fibrosis to use techniques that can help keep their airways clearer, according [...]

Errors put infants, children at risk for overdose of painkillers: Prescriptions for narcotics often contain too much medication per dose

Errors put infants, children at risk for overdose of painkillers: Prescriptions for narcotics often contain too much medication per dose Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Parents who give young children prescription painkillers should take extra care to make sure [...]

Animal-assisted therapy decreases patient anxiety in pre-MRI setting, study suggests

Animal-assisted therapy decreases patient anxiety in pre-MRI setting, study suggests Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Patients who undergo MRI often suffer from elevated anxiety. Patient discomfort may cause poor image quality due to motion artifacts or early termination. Anxiolytic [...]

Health literacy tests underutilized; may improve elderly cancer patients’ care and outcomes

Health literacy tests underutilized; may improve elderly cancer patients’ care and outcomes Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Low health literacy is a significant barrier to quality care, especially among elderly patients, but increased use of simple and effective health [...]

Robotic surgery effective for removing hard-to-reach throat cancer, study suggests

Robotic surgery effective for removing hard-to-reach throat cancer, study suggests Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: Robotic surgery has become a mainstream tool for removing an ever-increasing variety of head and neck tumors. Now, a team of head and neck [...]

Investigational agent shows promise in reducing spread of prostate cancer

Investigational agent shows promise in reducing spread of prostate cancer Welcome once more to ItexMall Health and Fitness, where you can enjoy reading another fascinating snippet of Health news right here: A drug developed to treat Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare childhood cancer, may also help prevent human prostate cancer from spreading, as seen in new [...]