Health
Coffee May Speed Up Bowel Recovery From Colon Surgery
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People With Medicare Have More High Quality Choices
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that people with Medicare have more high quality choices and the performance of Medicare Advantage plans is improving. HHS also released the 2013 quality ratings for Medicare health and drug plans on the web-based Medicare Plan Finder. During Medicare Open Enrollment, people with Medicare can use the star ratings to compare the quality of health and drug plan options and select the plans that are the best value for their needs for 2013.
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Another Meningitis Scare Emerges, Targeting NYC's Gay Men
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NIH researchers provide detailed view of brain protein structure
Researchers have published the first highly detailed description of how neurotensin, a neuropeptide hormone which modulates nerve cell activity in the brain, interacts with its receptor. Their results suggest that neuropeptide hormones use a novel binding mechanism to activate a class of receptors called G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
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Meningitis Toll Now 12 Dead, 137 Sick
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On World Mental Health Day, Ban calls depression under-appreciated global health crisis
Patients at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India.
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After diabetes during pregnancy, healthy diet linked to reduced type 2 diabetes risk
By sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy, women who develop diabetes during pregnancy can greatly reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has found.
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New Gene Test Predicts Whose Mouth Lesions Might Be Cancerous
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Study shows benefits, drawbacks, for women's incontinence treatments
Oral medication for treating a type of incontinence in women is roughly as effective as Botox injections to the bladder, reported researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health clinical trials network study, with each form of treatment having benefits and limitations.
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Gene Tied to Obesity, Depression, ADHD
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