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Study: Flamboyant male dancing attracts women best
(AP)
AP - John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
Doctors see eye hazard in powerful laser pointers
(AP)
AP - A 15-year-old boy damaged his eyes while playing with a laser pointer he'd bought over the Internet, say doctors who warn that dangerously high-powered versions are easily available online.
Group backs mandatory flu shots for health workers
(AP)
AP - Flu vaccination should be required for all doctors, nurses and other health workers, the nation's largest pediatricians' group says, calling it a long overdue step to protect patients.
CVS Caremark to give away up to $5M in flu shots
(AP)
AP - CVS Caremark Corp. said Wednesday it will give away up to $5 million in seasonal flu vaccinations to people without health insurance.
AP Exclusive: Back to work after salmonella case
(AP)
AP - The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business.
J&J giving $200 million for health of women, kids
(AP)
AP - Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the health and lives of people in poor countries.
Report says obesity surgery can save health costs
(Reuters)
Reuters - Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year, leading surgeons said on Wednesday.
Doctors alarmed by HIV risk for European gays
(AFP)
AFP - Homosexual men in Europe are increasingly failing to adhere to safe sex, according to two new studies. In France, transmission of the AIDS virus "seems to be out of control" among men who have sex with men, said a paper published on Thursday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Clinical Trials Update: Sept. 8, 2010
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
Smoking Could Harm Sperm, Study Finds
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies provide
evidence that smoking can harm sperm - both in smoking men who may become
fathers, and in sons born to women who smoked during pregnancy.
B vitamins found to slow progression of dementia
(Reuters)
Reuters - Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday,
Researchers find genes linked to ovarian cancer
(AFP)
AFP - Researchers said Wednesday they have identified two new genetic mutations linked to the deadliest types of ovarian cancer, which may play a key role in suppressing tumors.
Two gene mutations mark deadly ovarian cancer
(Reuters)
Reuters - Researchers have identified two new genetic mutations that cause a significant number of the hardest-to-treat kinds of ovarian cancer, and say they point to a new "on-off" switch for tumors.
Genetic scars of the Holocaust: Children suffer too
(Time.com)
Time.com - A study finds that severe trauma can cause genetic changes that are passed along to children
HIV spread "out of control" among French gay men
(Reuters)
Reuters - Transmission of the AIDS virus seems to be "out of control" among gay men in France despite an overall fall in the number of new HIV cases in the country, according to a study published on Thursday.
Immune System Genes Show Links to Type 1 Diabetes
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The exact cause of type 1
diabetes is still unknown, but international researchers have found a link
between the blood sugar disorder and a network of immune system genes.
Starting periods early tied to greater asthma risk
(Reuters)
Reuters - Women who start menstruating early may be at increased risk of asthma and poor lung function, new research shows.
Long-term weight loss may be harmful to health
(Reuters)
Reuters - Long-term weight loss may release into the blood industrial pollutants linked to illnesses like diabetes, hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers said on Tuesday.
