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CHICAGO (AP) -- There's a new version of the world's most widely used psychiatric manual, and it's already getting lots of criticism.......
Wednesday, 15 May 2013 13:55

Obama planning June 3 mental health conference

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is planning a mental health conference next month in response to gun violence.......
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in Northern California's wine country that covers all her medical needs.......

Authors: Louis Milman

Jolie's Double Mastectomy Not Always a LifesaverTickingtimebombsblog.com(LOS ANGELES) -- Rachel Joy Horn's breasts were ticking time bombs. She lost trust in her body and no longer felt comfortable in her own skin.
That is how she felt, she said, when her doctor broke the news to her that she'd tested positive for a gene mutation that put her in the high-risk category for...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 10:37

Angelina Jolie’s Reported Next Surgery

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Authors: Jeanette Torres

Angelina Jolie’s Reported Next SurgeryAstrid Stawiarz/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Angelina Jolie‘s double mastectomy is apparently just the beginning. The Oscar-winning actress will undergo surgery to remove her ovaries as soon as she possibly can, sources tell People magazine.
Jolie implied as much in Sunday’s New York Times op-ed, in which she...

Authors: Jeanette Torres

Blowout Classes Teach Men How to Style Wives’ HairiStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Blowout bars offer no cutting or coloring of hair in their salons, just washing and blowing it out.  But they’ve become all the rage because they tend to be cheaper and faster than a full-service salon.
A typical blowout costs $35, and many women go as often as three times a...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 06:29

Denver Woman Allergic to Hip Implant

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Authors: Jeanette Torres

Denver Woman Allergic to Hip ImplantNational Jewish Health(DENVER) -- When Paula Spurlock started to experience itching and pain all over her body, she never dreamed that she was allergic to the metal device implanted into her hip.
Spurlock, 50, experienced migraines, itching and pain for nearly two years before doctors noticed that her right hip lit up on a...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez gently but sternly admonishes a teenage cerebral palsy patient who clearly hasn't been doing his exercises, stressing the importance of keeping muscles loose and limber.......

Authors: Carmen Cox

California Authorities Search for Autistic, 'Very Inquisitive' GirliStockphoto/Thinkstock(CLEARLAKE, Calif.) -- Authorities continue to search for a 9-year-old autistic girl who disappeared from her family's Clearlake, Calif., vacation home on Mother's Day.
Mikaela Lynch, of San Francisco, was reported missing from her fenced-in backyard where she had been playing with her younger brother, ABC's...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013 18:42

Low-Salt Diets: More Harm than Good?

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Low-Salt Diets: More Harm than Good?Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Raising questions about the dietary recommendations for salt, a report from the Institute of Medicine finds "insufficient and inconsistent" evidence to support limiting sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams per day.
The report documents a committee investigation on whether there was enough evidence...

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