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Restaurant meals overloaded with salt, fat, calories, study says
Want to satisfy your full day’s requirement of salt, fat and calories? Sit down in a restaurant and order a meal. After an exhaustive analysis of 3,507 possible ways to order 685 meals at 19 restaurants chains in Canada, researchers found that the...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Salt, Burger King, Heart Disease, Hamburgers
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Experts issue guidelines for gene tests in kids
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Groups representing pediatricians and geneticists issued new recommendations on Thursday to provide doctors with guidance about when to test a child's DNA for genetic conditions. The recommendations are the first collaboration...Tags: Medical Specialization, Family, Biology, Genetics, Genetic Condition
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Bad news can be bad for your health
The terrorist bombings and subsequent manhunt in Boston last month left four innocent people dead and many more injured. But the stress caused by these tragic events could adversely affect the health of a much wider population. The citywide shutdown, the...Tags: Natural Disasters, Behavioral Conditions, Bombings, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Disasters and Accidents
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Small restaurants serving big calories, salt: studies
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite public health progress in cutting calories, as well as salt and fat from fast foods and supermarket products, neighborhood restaurants are still packing big helpings of each into their meals, a trio of studies suggests....Tags: Medical Specialization, Restaurants, Salt, Toronto (Canada), Heart Disease
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Lake County sheriff's deputy charged with soliciting sex
An investigation into two men accused of forcing a woman into prostitution led police to a Lake County sheriff's deputy who is now charged with soliciting sex and obstructing justice, authorities say. Deputy Sheriff Eric Francke, 33, was arrested...
Tags: Prostitution, Sex Crimes, Crimes, Trials, Antioch (Lake, Illinois)
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Here is the latest West Virginia news from The Associated Press
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin held a symbolic bill signing Monday on a new law that raises state penalties for pipeline safety violations. The law applies to an estimated 11,000 miles of pipeline that run within the state's borders...Tags: Earl Ray Tomblin, Black Lung Disease, Joe Manchin III, Crime, Law and Justice
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U.S. urged to take tougher line on Indian trade practices
Reuters* India is largest beneficiary in U.S. trade benefit program * U.S. Congress has already begun look at Indian practices By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. think tank on Tuesday recommended Congress suspend trade benefits for India, in...Tags: India, Novartis AG, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Government, U.S. Congress
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Hysterectomy not tied to heart risk factors: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite evidence suggesting that women whose uterus has been removed may be more likely to experience heart troubles, a new study finds that the usual signs of heart disease risk are not more severe in middle-aged women after...Tags: Symptoms, Health and Safety at School, Cardiologists, Heart Disease, Ovarian Cancer
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Don't mandate labeling for gene-altered foods
Should the government require companies to label food that contains genetically modified organisms? Last November, California voters rejected a ballot initiative that would require such labeling, but bills that would do so were recently introduced in...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Chemical Industry, Biotechnology, Biotechnology Industry, Science
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Pharmaceutical Firm's Growth Bucks State Trend
The Hartford CourantAt Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, the second-largest drug company in Connecticut, the local workforce increased by more than 40 percent over the last 10 years, at the same time its employee numbers worldwide grew by 35 percent. A company that...Tags: Science, West Hartford, Warfarin (drug), Danbury, Companies and Corporations
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Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents
It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...Tags: The New York Times, Angelina Jolie, Benghazi, American Civil Liberties Union, Breast Cancer
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Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...
Tags: Medical Specialization, The New York Times, Angelina Jolie, Chemical Industry, Biotechnology
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