Episodes of extremely low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), particularly at an early age, can have an impact on spatial memory performance in children with type 1 diabetes.
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Episodes of extremely low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), particularly at an early age, can have an impact on spatial memory performance in children with type 1 diabetes.
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Little can be done to prevent an outbreak of bird flu if it comes in the next year or so before vaccine production can get started, health experts caution, but they say common sense measures can help individuals protect themselves.
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More people are biking, and this article tells you what you’ll need to join them.
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Baffled or annoyed by the federal government’s 30-minutes-per-day-of-moderate-exercise-five-days-per-week dictum? A new study suggests that clearing a lower bar offers significant health benefits.
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Ten percent.
Losing that amount of body weight is what a growing number of studies suggest can significantly improve your health if you are overweight or obese.
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he scenarios all start out the same way — at a small farm somewhere, perhaps in Southeast Asia, some chickens become infected with H5N1 bird flu.
They end with a global pandemic in which millions of people die, a catastrophe beyond all living human experience.
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For now, much of what China is doing to manage a possible epidemic of bird flu is a mystery.
China is not only the most populous nation, but also the biggest producer of poultry. It has a quarter of the world’s chickens, two-thirds of the world’s domesticated ducks and almost nine-tenths of the world’s domesticated geese.
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The severe blows to the head commonly experienced by professional football players may have long-lasting consequences, according to a new study.
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Parents weigh sound sleep (for themselves and the baby) against the slight chance the baby will die.
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Mold and dampness can cause coughing and wheezing, but there is little evidence to support the existence of the so-called toxic mold syndrome.
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People with higher blood levels of vitamin D may be less likely to develop gum disease
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A Vietnamese patient has become partially resistant to the antiviral drug experts plan to use to tackle a human bird flu outbreak.
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The first outbreak of polio in the United States in 26 years occurred earlier this fall in an Amish community in central Minnesota.
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Pharmacies in black neighborhoods are much less likely to carry sufficient supplies of popular opioid painkillers than those in white neighborhoods, a new study has found, leading researchers to conclude that minorities are routinely undertreated for chronic pain.
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A virus that thrives in crowded, unsanitary environments may have caused an outbreak of stomach flu among Hurricane Katrina survivors and relief workers in Houston.
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