Mid-life stress ‘raises dementia risk’

Mid-life stress ‘raises dementia risk’
Mid-life stress can increase the risk of women developing Alzheimer’s disease, a study has shown.

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Matters to Contemplate: Is your body starving for sunshine?

Matters to Contemplate: Is your body starving for sunshine?
For months, my 18-year-old granddaughter, a volleyball player, has complained about a pain on her left side and of lacking energy.

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Heart attack/stroke risks high for combative types

Heart attack/stroke risks high for combative types
WASHINGTON: People who tend to be confrontational, especially those who are competitive and aggressive, run a higher risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a study released Monday.

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Garlic lowers blood pressure

Garlic lowers blood pressure
The humble garlic bulb has a big reputation in herbal lore for curing everything from the common cold to the plague. Now it is lowering blood pressure.

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How to eat yourself well

How to eat yourself well
RESEARCH is proving the old saying “you are what you eat” to be true.

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Presidency mum on Shaik issue

Presidency mum on Shaik issue
/> Since his release in March in 2009 because of “life-threatening hypertension”, Zuma’s former financial adviser has been seen around Durban, shopping, dining and playing golf and apparently in fair health.

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Yarrows named fellow with American Society of Hypertension

Yarrows named fellow with American Society of Hypertension
Steven Yarows of IHA Chelsea Internal Medicine has been named a fellow of the American Society of Hypertension.

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Changes at hospital since man’s death

Changes at hospital since man’s death
Relatives of an 82-year-old man who died of an aneurism were justified in their concern over his discharge from Wellington Hospital.

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Nautilus Neurosciences Announces U.S. Launch Of CAMBIA(TM) (Diclofenac Potassium For Oral Solution) For The Treatment …

Nautilus Neurosciences Announces U.S. Launch Of CAMBIA(TM) (Diclofenac Potassium For Oral Solution) For The Treatment …
Nautilus Neurosciences, Inc., a neurology-focused specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, announced that CAMBIA(TM) (diclofenac potassium for oral solution) is now available in the United States for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura. CAMBIA was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June 2009. “The approval and subsequent commercialization …

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Doctors Hard To Find For Patients In Massachusetts’ First For-Profit Health Plan

Doctors Hard To Find For Patients In Massachusetts’ First For-Profit Health Plan
Researchers note troubling implications for Obama’s new health lawThe first for-profit insurance company approved to offer government-subsidized coverage under Massachusetts’ health reform has dangerously restricted access to primary care, according to data reported in Thursday’s (Aug. 5) New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers say the findings raise troubling concerns about the Obama …

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