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Employees Pay More and Get Less from Medical Coverage

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:11 am

Workers are paying 14% more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.

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Seeing Clearly With an Iris Implant

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:10 am

Patients who benefit from the artificial iris fall into two main categories: people who were born without an iris and those whose iris is damaged or destroyed in some sort of traumatic injury.

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 11:10 am | Read Full Article

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Popular OTC medicines so dangerous that only doctors should prescribe them, says FDA

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:07 am

Though the drug is abused less than codeine, another popular brain-altering drug, dextromethorphan sent roughly 8,000 people to the emergency room in 2008. This is nearly twice the amount it sent in 2004.

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 11:07 am | Read Full Article

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Black Rice: Your New Source For Antioxidants

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:02 am

"Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants," Zhimin Xu,

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 11:02 am | Read Full Article

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Vitamin D really does prevent cancer, autoimmune diseases

Posted on Sep 04 @ 11:01 am

Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Chron's disease, leukemia -- these and many more diseases are often caused by a lack of vitamin D.

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 11:01 am | Read Full Article

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Cranberry Juice Fights Bacteria

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:58 am

"A number of controlled clinical trials -- these are carefully designed and conducted scientific studies done in humans -- have concluded that cranberry juice really is effective for preventing urinary tract infections,"...

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Curing the Incurable

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:46 am

They reported on a new family of potential drugs that are capable of blocking a key protein that's involved in the development of cancer. Called stapled peptides, it holds the peptides, or protein fragments, in a compact shape that gives them high stability in comparison to their unfolded versions.

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 10:46 am | Read Full Article

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Genetic Variation Linked to Fuchs' Corneal Dystrophy (CME/CE)

Posted on Sep 04 @ 10:44 am

Fuchs' corneal dystrophy affects about 5% of the population, they noted, and a predictive test would be especially useful for patients about to undergo cataract or Lasik surgery.

Article Date: Sep 04 @ 10:44 am | Read Full Article

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Plus-Size Teen Waistlines Expanding (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:39 am

The increases in adiposity were also more pronounced in black girls and other ethnic groups.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:39 am | Read Full Article

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Zinc helps prevent pneumonia in the elderly

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:38 am

In a study of over 600 seniors from 33 different nursing homes in the Boston area, researchers found that seniors with healthy blood levels of zinc are 50 percent less likely to develop pneumonia than those with sub-par levels.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:38 am | Read Full Article

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Drug Industry: A Market for Harm?

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:34 am

In one study of 111 final applications for drug approval, Light said 42 percent lacked adequately randomized trials, 40 percent had flawed testing of doses, 39 percent lacked evidence of clinical efficacy, and 49 percent raised concerns about adverse side effects.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:34 am | Read Full Article

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Ben and Jerry's 'natural' ice cream filled with unnatural ingredients

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:33 am

According to CSPI at least 90 percent of the flavors used in "All Natural" Ben & Jerry's ice cream are not actually natural.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:33 am | Read Full Article

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Scientists say salmonella helps immune system to destroy cancer cells

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:28 am

Scientists from Italy and the U.S. claim to have found a new therapeutic way to assist the body in defending against and killing cancer cells -- salmonella bacteria.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:28 am | Read Full Article

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New study: 85% of Big Pharma’s new drugs are "lemons" and pose health risks to users

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:27 am

Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits -- but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:27 am | Read Full Article

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Fluorescent Medicine for Brain Tumors

Posted on Aug 23 @ 01:24 am

Brain surgeons are studying pills that turn cancer cells fluorescent colors, allowing surgeons to remove them with more accuracy than ever before. It’s a procedure that may bring new hope to 14,000 people who are diagnosed each year with a malignant glioma, the most common form of a malignant brain tumor.

Article Date: Aug 23 @ 01:24 am | Read Full Article

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Antibiotics on the verge of becoming completely useless

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:43 am

Antibiotic overuse has become a pandemic problem. They are used in animal feed to make animals grow more quickly and they are handed out like candy by many doctors to people with almost any ailment. And they are simply not working anymore to fight infection.

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:43 am | Read Full Article

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Guess where your fluoride comes from? China!

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:32 am

Much of the fluoride added to municipal water supplies across the United States is imported from China, and is contaminated with heavy metals...

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:32 am | Read Full Article

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Eating well-done meat doubles your risk of developing bladder cancer

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:31 am

Researchers there have found that charring meat by frying, barbecuing or otherwise heavily cooking it can lead to the formation of cancer-causing chemicals in the meat.

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:31 am | Read Full Article

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College Students Show More Mental Illness

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:26 am

There are more young adults arriving to college with pre-existing conditions and seeking help for these conditions than ever before.

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:26 am | Read Full Article

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Are You Losing Your Mind?

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:25 am

According to the article, the amyloid hypothesis implies that Alzheimer's disease only develops when the body is no longer to metabolize proteins called glycoproteins. It is when beta-amyloid 40 and beta-amyloid 42 accumulate, that Alzheimer's develops.

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:25 am | Read Full Article

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Learn how to eliminate cancer on the next NaturalNews Talk Hour

Posted on Aug 16 @ 02:16 am

"The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks its doing are as different as night and day." - Herbert Ley Jr., M.D. (former Commissioner of the FDA)

Article Date: Aug 16 @ 02:16 am | Read Full Article

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Vitamin D improves overall immune function

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:27 am

In the study, supplementing with vitamin D resulted in more than half the participants who took it staying healthy throughout the trial, compared to just over 30 percent in the control group.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:27 am | Read Full Article

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White button mushrooms enhance the immune system to fight infections and cancer

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:26 am

Known by the botanical name Agaricus bisporus, they are a tasty addition to everything from salads to pizzas -- and, it turns out, they do have powerful health building properties.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:26 am | Read Full Article

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Vitaminwater revealed as non-healthy beverage by Coca-Cola's own lawyers (opinion)

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:25 am

If Vitaminwater were accurately named, it would actually be called Sugarwater. Its first two ingredients are, not surprisingly, sugar and water (the sugar coming in the form of crystalline fructose, a processed sweetener that has been linked to health problems)

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:25 am | Read Full Article

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Chart reveals insanity of new health care bill

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:17 am

And the changes are so drastic that all of them couldn't even be fit onto a single chart.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:17 am | Read Full Article

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Human Salmonellosis Traced to Pet Food (CME/CE)

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:14 am

After the first outbreak, the manufacturer recalled more than 23,000 tons of dry dog and cat food. After additional outbreak-linked illnesses were identified in 2008, the company recalled 105 brands of dry pet food and permanently closed the plant that produced the contaminated products.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:14 am | Read Full Article

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Recharging Hearts Wirelessly

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:09 am

When the heart stops, 10 minutes separates life and death. For about 300,000 people in the United States every year, help doesn't come fast enough. Implantable defibrillators have been the “insurance policy” for sudden cardiac death...

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:09 am | Read Full Article

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One Step Closer to Tissue Regeneration

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:06 am

Growing a new arm or leg sounds like science fiction, but scientists may be one step closer to regenerating tissue like salamanders or a newts do.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:06 am | Read Full Article

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Building New Heart Cells

Posted on Aug 10 @ 01:02 am

"Now, we've found a way to change fibroblasts -- which make up 50 percent of all heart cells -- into new cardiomyocytes."

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 01:02 am | Read Full Article

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How to Reverse Cancer Naturally on the next NaturalNews Talk Hour

Posted on Aug 10 @ 12:59 am

"American Heroes - Cancer Experts Speak Out" - a 5-week series of shows that reveals the untold truth about cancer, the cancer industry, and highly-successful (natural) cancer treatment options.

Article Date: Aug 10 @ 12:59 am | Read Full Article