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Mind: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
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Consumer Reports Is Rating Surgical Groups The magazine published ratings of 221 heart bypass surgical groups from 42 states online on Tuesday and will print them in its October issue.
 
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Bristol-Myers Agrees to Acquire ZymoGenetics for $885 Million The two companies agreed in January to jointly develop ZymoGenetics’s hepatitis C drug and share the profits.
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Judge Keeps Ban on Stem Cell Funds A federal judge refused to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
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Khan Yunis Journal: Finding a Steadier Path in Gaza Dr. James S. Gordon, an American psychiatrist, led Gaza children in a coping technique recently in Khan Yunis.
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In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer TESTINGRat prostate cells under a microscope that have been exposed to BPA.
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Health Care Wastefulness Is Detailed in Studies A heavy reliance on emergency rooms care is seen as a sign of weaknesses in the primary health care system.
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Tasty Vegan Food? Cupcakes Show It Can Be Done Vegan eating has had a growth spurt in recent years, but a victory on a Food Network baking show this summer has showered attention on vegan food's fine taste.
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Learning to Talk the Talk in a Hospital Communicating a patient's story is a matter of getting right and saying it fast.
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Topical Gel Catches Up With Pills for Relief Controlled trials suggest that a topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in a cream is as effective as their oral counterparts for treating osteoarthritis, soreness and tendinitis.
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At Hospitals, New Methods With a Focus on Diversity Kelly D. Houston, director of a lactation clinic, with Nadia Bustamante.
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Global Update: Tuberculosis: Automated Test for Drug-Resistant TB Gives Results in Hours, Not Weeks
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Vital Signs: Nostrums: A Bit of Marijuana Is Found to Ease Pain Patients with persistent nerve damage inhaled, and felt better, but did not get high, a Canadian study reports.
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Vital Signs: Risks: Asleep, and Helping to Keep the Weight Off Children under 5 who do not get at least 10 hours of sleep at night are almost twice as likely to be overweight or obese later in childhood, a new study reports.
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Vital Signs: Prevention: Surgery Sharply Reduces Risk of 2 Cancers For women who carry a genetic mutation that puts them in danger of developing ovarian and breast cancer, prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy offer protection.
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Q & A: The Hair of My Chin
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Recipes for Health: Orange Chicken With Vegetables
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Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young Kyle Warren, at 6 years old.
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Doctor and Patient: Tending to Patients During a Hurricane Dr. Ruth Berggren, who stayed on in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, speaks with patient Johanna Sines at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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Mind: Lasting Pleasures, Robbed by Drug Abuse
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
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Doctor and Patient: Can Concierge Medicine for the Few Benefit the Many?
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National Briefing | Health: ‘Magic Mushrooms’ May Help Cancer Patients, Study Says The hallucinogen psilocybin, known by the street name magic mushrooms, may help ease the anxiety that often accompanies late-stage cancer, researchers said Monday.
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Business Briefing | Regulatory News: British Regulators Call for Removal of Avandia Air Products raised its takeover offer for Airgas to $5.48 billion in cash.
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Tsung-yi Lin, 89, Psychiatrist With Global Approach, Dies Dr. Tsung-yi Lin
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Phys Ed: How to Fix a Bad Tennis Shoulder Aching shoulders are among the most common overuse tennis injuries, robbing professionals and duffers of playing time and comfort.
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For Young and Old, the Best Ways to Study As students around the country go back to school and hit the books, scientists are offering new insights into the best ways to study and learn.
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Vegetarian Recipes for Barbecue Season If your Labor Day plans include a picnic or barbecue, be sure to check out Martha Rose Shulman's latest installment of Recipes for Health, which offers flavorful options for vegetarian eaters.
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Sunday Shopping Takes Toll on Happiness If the traditional day of rest and worship has become your day to shop, it may be taking a toll on your happiness.
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Creating a Safer Kitchen Food scares, such as the latest contaminated egg problem, often trigger a rethinking in cooking and shopping habits. In today's Patient Money column, Walecia Konrad explores the costs and options consumers face on their quest for germ-free kitchens.
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Personal Health: Weight Problems May Begin in the Womb
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Really?: The Claim: The Day’s Events are Incorporated Into That Night’s Dreams.
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Group Gets Men Talking A group at the Riverdale Senior Center helps fight the isolation of aging in men.
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Helping a Neighbor in Need New Web sites aim to connect those in need with friends and acquaintances willing to provide rides and meals, do chores or pay visits.
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Fear of Falling Can exaggerated anxiety about falling -- even if tests show your risk to be low -- increase the probability that you'll actually fall?
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Bristol-Myers Squibb to Buy ZymoGenetics The deal is about $885 million, Bristol said.
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The Week Ahead in Health Industry News This week focuses on news about emergency room visits and the ramifications of the health care law.
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Another Kind of Medical Error The rate of diagnostic error may average about 10 percent.
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Letters: Headaches and Bedtime (1 Letter) Letters to the editor.
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Letters: Not for Men Only (1 Letter) Letters to the editor.
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Letters: Identical Values (1 Letter) Letters to the editor.
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Letters: Putting Babies at Risk (1 Letter) Letters to the editor.
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Letters: The Bedbug Files (2 Letters) Letters to the editor.
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Will Aging Chimps Get to Retire, or Face Medical Research? Sinbad, thought to be at least 35, is now at a sanctuary in Florida.
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Study Sees Heart Risk in Meridia Diet Pill Abbott Laboratories financed a study of 10.000 overweight patients using its diet drug.
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Finding Suggests New Aim for Alzheimer’s Drugs Paul Greengard with his dog Alpha. Dr. Greengard made a discovery that could help slow or stop the effects of Alzheimer's.
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New Rivals to Warfarin as Blood Clot Preventer A Bristol-Myers drug shows promise in treating a heart rhythm disorder, and others combat postsurgical clotting and deep vein thrombosis.
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Recipes for Health: Stir-fried Succotash With Edamame
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Recipes for Health: Stir-fried Tofu With Carrots and Red Peppers
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Recipes for Health: End-of-Summer Stir-Fries
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Recipes for Health: Grilled Leeks With Romesco Sauce
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City’s Efforts Fail to Dent Child Obesity Forty percent of the nearly 637,000 children in kindergarten through the eighth grade were found to be overweight or obese in the 2008-9 school year.
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F.D.A. Backtracks and Returns Drug to Market After being flooded with complaints, the agency said it would continue to allow the sale of the drug midodrine.
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Modified Salmon Is Safe, F.D.A. Says A salmon genetically engineered to grow faster and an unmodified salmon of the same age.
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Deal Would Provide Dialysis to Illegal Immigrants in Atlanta Displaced patients to be covered by a new agreement met at an Atlanta-area church.
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