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Study: Obesity surgery can cure diabetes
Jan 22 2008 11:04PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.
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Food poisoning can be long-term problem
Jan 22 2008 9:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout. Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.
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Food poisoning can be long-term problem
Jan 22 2008 9:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout. Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.
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Getting in shape reduces death risk
Jan 22 2008 9:32PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The more fit you are, the longer you're likely to live, according to a large study of veterans that applies to black men as well as white men. The Veterans Affairs researchers found that the "highly fit" men in the study had half the risk of death as those who were the least fit. Being "very highly fit" cut the risk even more, by 70 percent.
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Study looks at why poor kids are heavy
Jan 22 2008 4:51PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - New research discounts a common theory on why poor children are more likely to be overweight than children from wealthier families. Iowa State University researchers say their analysis shows that a lack of food isn't necessarily to blame, although they're not sure why so many children from low-income families are overweight.
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Folk medicines contain lead
Jan 22 2008 4:41PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite. Worried about her daughters' lack of appetite, the young Houston mother was merely following her grandmother's advice when she gave the two girls and a niece a dose of "greta" _ a Mexican folk medicine used to treat children's stomach ailments.
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