Monthly Archives: October 2011

Event Aims To Understand OCD Through Art

Event Aims To Understand OCD Through Art
By Andrea Shea BOSTON — Millions of Americans have been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Even so, it's still widely misunderstood — and even joked about. This weekend the International OCD Foundation is hosting an event at McLean
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MagicalPad Provides Free-Reign Note Taking and Idea Organization for iPad
By BrothaTech MagicalPad was designed with business execs in mind, but anybody with OCD a lust for high-level note/idea organization will appreciate the app's ability to organize information in any way that they choose. The emphasis is the app's
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Latest Obesity News

Flu shots less effective in people who are obese, study finds
By Denise Mann, HealthDay The various health risks associated with being overweight or obese are well known, but a new study now suggests that this extra weight may also make your annual flu shot less effective. Keith Srakocic, AP Whether or not obese
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Study: Obese People Regain Weight After Dieting Due To Hormonal Changes
Obese people may regain weight after dieting due to hormonal changes that persist for up to a year, a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown. AsianScientist (Oct. 28, 2011) – Obese people may regain weight after dieting
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Regular aspirin halves cancer risk

Regular aspirin halves cancer risk
These cancers develop as a result of a gene fault parent, including those of the bowel and the womb, the most common forms of hereditary cancers. The study, involving scientists and clinicians from 43 centres in 16 countries, was funded by Cancer
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Daily dose of statins could cut risk of breast cancer by 30%
By Pat Hagan A daily dose of cholesterol-lowering drugs could slash the risk of breast cancer recurring by up to 30 per cent, new research shows. It found women who developed a tumour were nearly a third less likely to suffer a relapse if they took a
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Latest Glaucoma News

Companies & Markets: Global Ophthalmic Device Market Forecast to Increase at a
LONDON–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Ophthalmic Devices Market to 2017 – Glaucoma and Cataract Surgery Devices, Minimally Invasive Procedures in Ophthalmic Surgery to Drive the Ophthalmic Surgery Market. The global ophthalmic devices market is expected
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Latest Early Onset News

Is genetic testing for early onset Alzheimer's Disease an option
This type of Alzheimer's disease was formally called “late onset Alzheimer's disease”. Familial Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease (FAD) is clearly an inherited disease and accounts for the other five to seven per cent of cases of Alzheimer's
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Man struck with dementia living but not present
But everything changed a few years ago when Gary was diagnosed with early-onset dementia. "Gary had this larger-than-life personality," Tina said, sitting in a second-floor office space in the LMI building on East Roseville Road.
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Latest Parkinsons News

Yakima seminar to offer Parkinson's information
A free, two-day educational seminar on Parkinson's disease will be Nov. 10 and 11 at Lakeview Spine Therapy, 1470 N. 16th Ave. in Yakima. The seminar is sponsored by Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital under an agreement with the Muhammad Ali Parkinson's
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Medicine thrown into crisis by stem cell ruling
Parkinson's disease Scientists hope to test new treatments on laboratory "models" of the disease based on human cells. Heart disease This could be tackled by injecting stem cells into the damaged site and allowing them to re-populate the damaged area
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A guide to dementia: Navigating a complex disease

A guide to dementia: Navigating a complex disease
Genes do play an important role in developing dementias like Alzheimer's, of which there are two types: early-onset and late-onset. Both types have a genetic component, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Early-onset Alzheimer's, which
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Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease
By Maryann Gromisch RN HERWriter Guide October 24, 2011 – 5:34am Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, also called younger onset Alzheimer's disease, is an uncommon form of dementia which affects individuals younger than the age of 65.
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Tigers look for early jump
BY BILL STEWART Staff Writer GARDINER — From the onset of twice-daily practices in late summer through the grind of a regular season, the motivation never wavered. "We've been waiting for this all year," Gardiner Area High School senior captain
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Obese patients may be seeing doctor discrimination

Obese patients may be seeing doctor discrimination
More than a third of American adults are considered obese, a figure that has jumped over the past 20 years. As American's waistlines expand, discrimination against the obese grows along with it and it seems that discrimination is skewed toward women.
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New Film Calls Out Government for Contributing to Nation's Health Crisis
Roberts is particularly unimpressed that the government, including Michelle Obama, who currently runs the childhood anti-obesity campaign Let's Move! and encourages BMI screenings for kids, is continuing to use this method as a means to measure our
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Obesity linked to surgery complications
BALTIMORE, Oct. 28 (UPI) — Obese women who have elective breast surgery are at substantially higher risk than others of complications after the procedure, US plastic surgeons say. Dr. Catherine Lee Chen and colleagues of The Johns Hopkins University
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Craig's Take: Memoir was race against worsening vision loss

Craig's Take: Memoir was race against worsening vision loss
In the mid-seventies at the age of 35 I was diagnosed with glaucoma, which is a painless but incurable eye disease. It is caused by a pressure build up in the eyeball, which unreleased, squeezes the blood supply in the optic nerve, eventually leading
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Tom Dunlap: Muscled cat fights formidable foe — glaucoma
By Tom Dunlap Curly, our muscular little house cat, has been diagnosed with feline glaucoma, a disease of the eye. We're finding this difficult to accept. Abandoned as a kitten, he grew up the hard way on his own, a waif destined to survive by his
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Possible side-effects uncovered in macular degeneration drug
"I was treating patients and measuring pressures, and I was surprised to see that in some of these people, their intraocular pressure was higher, and they didn"t have a diagnosis of glaucoma." The expert took a closer look at the pooled data to find
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