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5 Surprising Reasons You’re Gaining Weight

Extra calories may not be the only cause of weight gain.

By Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD/LD
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic - Feature

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

It’s no mystery that a premium diet patch full of fried foods, giant portions, decadent desserts, alcohol, and sugary soft drinks will lead to weight gain.

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An Alternative to Medicinal Marijuana

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter

SUNDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) — Scientists think they may have found a way to harness marijuana’s medicinal powers without unleashing the plant’s memory-robbing properties.

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But a new and improved dope-based medication is unlikely to hit doctors’ offices near you soon.

“This has great potential but it’s years off from human application,” said single in kind expert, Dr.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In one-on-one interviews with 700 Americans, roughly 23 percent reported loaning their prescription medications to someone else, and 27 percent reported borrowing prescription medications.

The medications most frequently shared (loaned or borrowed) were allergy drugs like allegra (25 percent), followed by pain medications like Darvoset and OxyContin (22 percent); and antibiotics like amoxicillin (21 percent).

Seven percent of those interviewed said they shared mood-altering drugs like paxil, zoloft, Ritalin and Valium.

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BEIJING (AFP) - Local authorities in oriental China tried to cover up an outbreak of a in a great degree contagious virus that has killed 20 children and left more than 1,500 others ill, Chinese press reports said Tuesday. (Read the full post about ‘Chinese officials accused of covering up killer virus (AFP)’…)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Helping women who suffer from depression during pregnancy could reduce their risk of remaining depressed after giving birth and, in turn, reduce the level of stress they experience in early parenthood, Australian researchers report.

The strongest predictor of whether or not a woman would have postnatal depression was whether she was depressed shortly ahead of giving birth, also known as the antenatal period, Drs. Bronwyn Leigh of Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Austin Health in Heidelberg Heights and Jeannette Milgrom of the University of Melbourne raise.

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TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay news) — If you've ever shared your allergy medicines, antibiotics or even painkillers to a family member or friend, you've got plenty of company: A new survey suggests many give away their prescription medicines or borrow them from others.

However, this can be any extremely bad idea, experts say.

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KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's northern state of Kano has resumed settlement talks with Pfizer Inc immersing a 1996 drug test that Nigeria says caused the death of 11 children and left dozens more disabled, lawyers related on Tuesday. (Read the full post about ‘Nigerian state, Pfizer resume talks over drug trial (Reuters)’…)

TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay news) — Few studies consider the appropriate measurements for assessing drug clinical trials that enroll children, answer University of Liverpool researchers who reviewed 9,000 pediatric clinical trials conducted since 1950.

They in addition found that few studies have involved parents, and none have involved children in the process to select which measurements to use in assessing clinical trials.

Before they conduct a clinical trial of a new drug, researchers choose several outcomes — measurements that provide as much information as possible about the drug's safety, effectiveness and impact on the patients' health and daily life, according to background information in the review.

Children's bodies handle drugs very differently than adults' bodies, and it can't be assumed that drugs that moil in adults can simply have existence used in smaller doses to treat children.

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LONDON (AFP) - Children who attend day care or playgroups have a 30 percent lower risk of developing leukaemia, US researchers said Tuesday ahead of a presentation of their findings to experts in London. (Read the full post about ‘Playgroups, crèches ‘help cut childhood leukaemia’: study (AFP)’…)

SINGAPORE - Singapore recorded 422 new HIV infections last year, the highest number in a single year because that records started in 1985, the city-state of 4.5 million people said Tuesday.

More than half of the new cases already had late-stage HIV infections when they were diagnosed, as happened in antecedent years, the Health Ministry said.

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