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Forget Chocolate! Red Juices A Healthier Valentine Alternative

Forget Chocolate! Red Juices Are A Healthier Valentine Alternative From Valentine’s Day to Heart Health Month, February is splashed with red. Although chocolates may rule as a popular Valentine gift, those in the mood for a healthier treat can enjoy strawberries, cherries, raspberries, cranberries, watermelon, tomatoes and beets and reap the rewards. These vibrant foods have […]

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Finding a Nursing Home

Are you looking for a nursing home for yourself or a loved one? People go to nursing homes for different reasons. They may be sick or hurt and require ongoing nursing care. They may have had surgery and need time to recuperate. Or they may have chronic care needs or disabilities that make long-term nursing […]

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Diabetes coach trials

A health software company specialising in “relational agents” for assistive care has begun trials of its new diabetes coach program in the United States. South Australian company Clevertar is running the trials in Pennsylvania as it progresses its plan of reaching global markets with its “Anna Cares” software. The company has also received a $600,000 […]

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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

A European population-based registry was designed to provide robust information on the epidemiology and characteristics of CML. All cases of newly diagnosed CML in a sample of almost 93 million adults in 20 European countries were registered. These data allow results of prospective trials to be generalized to most countries. The Evaluating Nilotinib Efficacy and […]

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Control Diabetes

 Control diabetes with a proper diet and reduce its massive economic costs MORE than 350 million people worldwide suffer from type 2 diabetes. The condition is already rampant in several Western countries and numbers are now rising fast in emerging economies, such as India and China. But the right kind of dietary changes could dramatically […]

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Skinny Jeans Bad For Your Health?

A woman spent four days in hospital recovering from nerve compression syndrome caused by prolonged squatting in her ‘skinny jeans’. The 35-year-old woman had squatted in her skinny jeans for several hours as she emptied cupboards while helping a relative move house. Later, when walking home, her feet were so numb that she tripped, fell […]

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Vitamin D Tempers Depression

 New evidence for treating depression in women with vitamin D supplements. Researchers have discovered a previously unknown link between vitamin D and depression in overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). In a study led by Dr Lisa Moran, from the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute and Monash University’s  for Health Research Implementation, researchers […]