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F.D.A. to Review Safety of Popular Bone Drugs |
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By DUFF WILSON
Published: September 5, 2011
Two advisory panels of the Food and Drug Administration will consider on Friday whether to recommend requiring women who use popular bone drugs like Fosamax to take “drug holidays” because of rising concerns about rare side effects with long-term use, according to people involved in the review.
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Study Suggests Higher Cancer Risk for 9/11 Firefighters |
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By SYDNEY EMBER
Published: September 1, 2011
A new study says firefighters who toiled in the wreckage of the World Trade Center in 2001 were 19 percent more likely to develop cancer than those who were not there, the strongest evidence to date of a possible link between work at ground zero and cancer.
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Getting Doctors to Wash Their Hands |
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September 1, 2011, 1:16 PM
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Well-worded reminders can help get health care workers to wash routinely.
A new study has a message for doctors and nurses who fail to wash their hands: Don’t think about yourself. Think about your patients.
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Prescribing Exercise to Treat Depression |
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August 31, 2011, 12:01 AM
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
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Can a stroll help ease depression? That question preoccupied Dr. Madhukar H. Trivedi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, after several of his patients, all suffering from serious depression, mentioned that they felt happier if they went for a walk. The patients in question were taking the widely prescribed antidepressants known as S.S.R.I.’s, for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, but not responding fully. They remained, by clinical standards, depressed. Dr. Trivedi and his colleagues began to wonder if adding a formal “dose” of exercise would increase their chances of getting better.
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Lack of Deep Sleep Tied to Hypertension |
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August 31, 2011, 9:00 AM
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Men who get the least deep sleep each night have a higher risk of hypertension, new research shows.
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