Q. What is osteoporosis? A. Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. People with osteoporosis have bones that become weak and can break easily. Osteoporosis affects mostly older women, but older men can get it too. It...
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Meditation Helping Arthritis Patients
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Associated Press Writer (AP) BALTIMORE Dalia Isicoff knows pain. A lifelong sufferer of rheumatoid arthritis, she has had seven hip replacement surgeries. Since leaving the hospital in February...
Going Nuts over Paclitaxel
Extracting the lifesaving anticancer drug paclitaxel–better known by its brand name, Taxol–could cause less of an impact on the environment now that significant amounts of the drug have been found in the...
The Truth About Impotence Claims
Health fraud sells false hope. Whether fraud is packaged as exotic pills and potions, phony cures or “miracle” remedies, it thrives on wishful thinking, naivete, or desperation. Fraud wastes a...
Four Types of Prostatitis
Prostatitis may account for up to 25 percent of all office visits by young and middle-age men for complaints involving the genital and urinary systems. The term prostatitis actually encompasses four disorders: Acute...
Researchers Examine Bio-Magnetic Sensors
Doctors in the future might be able to diagnose breast and ovarian cancer or Alzheimer’s disease using magnetism and microscopic particles of iron oxide bound to the type of cells being traced. A team led by Dr...
HHS Approves Nine State Plans to Extend Medicaid Coverage to Women with Breast, Cervical Cancer
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved nine new states’ requests to extend Medicaid benefits to uninsured women who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through a federal screening program...
AHRQ Report Finds Little or Inconclusive Evidence of Health Benefits of Garlic
Dietary use of garlic may lower some types of cholesterol in the short term, but it does not appear to offer long-term protection against cardiovascular disease, says a new evidence report released today by the Agency...
DDT, PCBs Not Linked to Higher Rates of Breast Cancer, an Analysis Concludes
Scientists who combined data from five large breast cancer studies have found no link to the pesticide DDT or to PCBs, a widespread industrial chemical. Both were suspect because they are chemicals in the environment...
Shots To Prevent Diseases
Adults need shots to prevent serious diseases. You should ask your doctor or other health care provider which shots are right for you. Influenza (flu) shots Everyone over age 65 needs this every year. You may need flu...
