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Feel Blue, Green and Red?Mental Health

Feel Blue, Green and Red?

Depression anxiety and pain treatment options

October 8, 2011·2 min read
Brain Function Changes Identified in Early HIVHealth News

Brain Function Changes Identified in Early HIV

Cognitive changes could be indictor of HIV prognosis

October 8, 2011·1 min read
Smoking Prompts Earlier StrokesHealth News

Smoking Prompts Earlier Strokes

Smokers likely to have strokes a decade sooner

October 8, 2011·1 min read
Protect Your ProstateNatural

Protect Your Prostate

Keeping your prostate healthy

October 8, 2011·2 min read
Brighter Path for HER-2 Positive Breast CancerPrescription Drugs

Brighter Path for HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer

HER2 positive breast cancer responds to chemotherapy and Herceptin

October 8, 2011·2 min read
Technology Will Help End World HungerNatural

Technology Will Help End World Hunger

Food Day helps spread awareness of food production

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Cialis OK'ed for Prostate ConditionPrescription Drugs

Cialis OK'ed for Prostate Condition

Cialis helps with benign prostatic hyperplasia

October 7, 2011·1 min read
Mind Influenced by Moody GardensMental Health

Mind Influenced by Moody Gardens

Anxiety and depression can be impacted by the environment

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Injectable Birth Control Increases Risk for HIVPrescription Drugs

Injectable Birth Control Increases Risk for HIV

Greater HIV risk for couples using hormonal contraceptives

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Overactive Bladder 4-1-1Natural

Overactive Bladder 4-1-1

Overactive bladder food appropriate tips

October 7, 2011·3 min read
Refining Prostate Cancer ScreeningHealth News

Refining Prostate Cancer Screening

Benign prostate enlargement and PSA levels are possible early indicators

October 7, 2011·3 min read
Children at Greater Risk of Invasive MelanomaNatural

Children at Greater Risk of Invasive Melanoma

Metastatic melanoma more common in children than adults

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Weekly Exercise Cuts Men's Heart RisksNatural

Weekly Exercise Cuts Men's Heart Risks

Good cholesterol boost from three hours of exercise

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Poor Footwear Increases Pain in Gout PatientsHealth News

Poor Footwear Increases Pain in Gout Patients

Gout pain eased with supportive shoes

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Overweight Kids More Likely to be HypertensiveClinical Trials

Overweight Kids More Likely to be Hypertensive

Children who are overweight three times as likely to develop high blood pressure

October 7, 2011·2 min read
Healthy Eating In UteroNatural

Healthy Eating In Utero

Maternal diet may prevent birth defects

October 6, 2011·1 min read
The Economy's Depression Epidemic Features

The Economy's Depression Epidemic

How unemployment and foreclosures are creating a mental health crisis in America

October 6, 2011·6 min read
Rx Combo Fights Prostate Cancer FatiguePrescription Drugs

Rx Combo Fights Prostate Cancer Fatigue

Zytiga and prednisone diminish prostate cancer fatigue

October 6, 2011·2 min read
SexerciseNatural

Sexercise

Sex is safe for the heart

October 6, 2011·2 min read
When the Baby Blues Turn Serious Mental Health

When the Baby Blues Turn Serious

Postpartum Depression affects at least one in ten new mothers and fathers

October 6, 2011·2 min read
Dangerous Exposures to Unborn Children Prescription Drugs

Dangerous Exposures to Unborn Children

In utero diethylstilbestrol exposure results in increased cancer risks

October 6, 2011·2 min read
Small Silent Strokes Increase RisksHealth News

Small Silent Strokes Increase Risks

Undetected strokes increase risk of dementia

October 6, 2011·2 min read
Higher Does Not Mean LongerClinical Trials

Higher Does Not Mean Longer

Stage III lung cancer patients don't live longer with higher radiation doses

October 6, 2011·1 min read
One Tough Jobs:  "Steve" Dies at 56Health News

One Tough Jobs: "Steve" Dies at 56

Apple founder has died

October 6, 2011·4 min read