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Compression Stockings Often Incorrectly Used

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) — Compression stockings are used incorrectly in 29 percent of patients and sized incorrectly in 26 percent of patients, according to U.S. researchers.

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Computer-Based Method IDs Alzheimer’s Protein Structures

FRIDAY, Aug. 22 (HealthDay News) — A new method of identifying protein structures related to Alzheimer’s disease has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An epilepsy drug being tested for use in treating surrender can help corpulent rats shed weight, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday.

Their findings point not only to an easy treatment for obesity, but show it is resembling to drug addiction, they said.

Even rats bred to be obese lost up to 19 percent of their weight loss and normal rats lost 12 to 20 percent of their weight after 40 days of injections of the drug, called vigabatrin or GVG, the team at the U.S.

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TUESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay news) — Grapefruit juice, long known to boost the absorption of certain medications, isn't the only juice that doesn't mix well by drugs, according to the Canadian researcher who first identified the ill goods of grapefruit juice.

Other common juices, including orange and apple, may limit the body's absorption of drugs, compromising their effectiveness, said David Bailey, a professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada.

Bailey was expected to present his scrutiny Tuesday at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, in Philadelphia.

"The original finding is that [grapefruit juice] markedly boosts the amount of drug that gets into the bloodstream," Bailey said.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body's capableness to absorb certain medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released Tuesday in the United States. (Read the full post about ‘Some fruit juices can harm drug absorption: study (AFP)’…)

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday that it had developed a new way of predicting from a person's DNA their response to medication and risk of developing infirmity. (Read the full post about ‘Matsushita says new DNA technology identifies disease risks (AFP)’…)

ATLANTA - Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

Worried doctors are troubled by the trend fueled by unfounded fears that vaccines may cause autism. The number of cases is still puny, just 131, but that’s only with a view to the first seven months of the year. in that place were only 42 cases for all of last year.

“We’re seeing a lot more spread. That is concerning to us,” said Dr.

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(HealthDay news) — Mercury is found in many types of fish and shellfish. Because significant amounts of mercury can harm unborn babies and young children, woman (try women’s health) who are or may become pregnant, those who are nursing, and young children should avoid some kinds of seafood.

the U.S.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pregnant woman (try women’s health) who live through wars are further likely to give birth to a child who develops schizophrenia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a study linking prenatal stress (relief) with the mental illness.

Babies born to women who were in their second month of pregnancy during the height of the 1967 Arab-Israeli "Six-Day" War were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia as adults, they found.

Similar patterns are likely amidst many stressed women, said Dr.

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PARIS (AFP) - Thinking of buying a especially liked for junior? Consider this: children who grow up in the company of cats, dogs or other furry friends are more likely to become snoring adults, according to a new study.

Snoring is no laughing matter.

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