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Acid reflux drugs don't help asthma in children
A new study has found that acid reflux medicine used to treat asthma in children isn't effective.
Physicians often prescribe the acid reflux drug lansoprazole in addition to standard inhaled steroid drugs to children who have asthma. The number of...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Human Body, Lungs and Airways, Drugs and Medicines, National Institutes of Health
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Centre Basketball: Versatile Bridget Winstead becoming a leader for Colonels
marsee@amnews.comBridget Winstead can do a good many things well, and she probably will. But for the time being, she’s happy that playing basketball is once again one of those things. Winstead is a versatile athlete who can not only shoot the jumper but can also...Tags: Basketball, High School Sports, College Sports, Juvenile Delinquency
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Energy healing sparks debate
Tribune NewspapersEnergy healers say they can detect and channel a "universal energy" and even manipulate this energy within another person. Science has not proved that this energy exists, that anybody can detect it or manipulate it, or that it has anything to do with...Tags: Hands, Trine Tsouderos, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Breast Cancer
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Federal center pays good money for suspect medicine
Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS. It could...Tags: Yale School of Medicine, New York City, Chicago Tribune, Health Organizations, AIDS
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Firms warned over sale of weight-loss hormone
!["Homeopathic" weight-loss products containing human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) are illegal and mislead consumers, federal agencies said Tuesday after issuing warning letters to seven companies that market the popular pellets, powders and sprays.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66577711-06230902.jpg ""Homeopathic\" weight-loss products containing human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) are illegal and mislead consumers, federal agencies said Tuesday after issuing warning letters to seven companies that market the popular pellets, powders and sprays.")
"Homeopathic" weight-loss products containing human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) are illegal and mislead consumers, federal agencies said Tuesday after issuing warning letters to seven companies that market the popular pellets, powders and sprays.
In a...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Weight, Infertility, Chicago Tribune, Julie Deardorff
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Anxiety treatment: Medication, therapy or both can help
Karen Smuland has always been an anxious person. But after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York's World Trade Center, she had her first panic attack and ended up in an emergency room, convinced that she was dying.
The 48-year-old architect from Bend,...Tags: Mental Illness, Lexapro (drug), New York City, Culture, Social Sciences
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Health Notes:Vaccine study demonstrates protection against norovirus illness
Health Notes blogger, Prue Salasky, is on vacation for two weeks. In her absence, Features Department Editor Karen Morgan is making occasional blog posts. This one is a news release from Baylor College of Medicine.
"An experimental norovirus vaccine...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Long-discredited hCG diet makes a comeback
Among the hundreds of drastic and unproven weight loss plans, the controversial hCG diet may take the cake.
Discredited by researchers in the 1970s, the near-starvation diet restricts followers to 500 calories a day for six weeks. At the same time,...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Testosterone, Hydrocortisone, Food and Drug Administration, Hormones and Metabolism
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hCG diet leaves some hungry for less
When Lynn Patterson resolved to lose weight early this year, she took a hormone normally associated with pregnancy, not dieting.
The 53-year-old Catonsville nurse went on the hCG diet, named for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that is produced...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Diets and Dieting, Catonsville, Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry
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Attention hikers: a way to reduce altitude sickness is at hand
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Principal explains reason for the FCAT placebo
South Florida Schools | Sun Sentinel blogsThe scoring of this year's FCAT writing exam will take a couple of months, so there's plenty of time to speculate on whether Hagen Road Elementary's novel approach made a positive difference. As I reported in today's editions, the school west of Boynton...
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