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  • July 2008

    • Going Green Could Help Your Heart

      newser  |  Time  |  Jul 4, 08 9:50 AM CDT

      Going Green Could Help Your Heart

      Drinking green tea may help keep blood vessels elastic and healthy, a new study suggests. The flavonoids in green tea that work as antioxidants also produce the relaxing effect, which could also help prevent clots. Participants received the equivalent of three to four cups of the tea each day and showed even more improvement after a week of daily consumption, Time reports. More »

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      blood pressure  • heart  • tea  • antioxidants  • medical studies  • blood vessels

  • June 2008

    • Lake Fights Back on Home Childbirth

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 18, 08 11:50 AM CDT

      Lake Fights Back on Home Childbirth

      Ricki Lake is firing back at a recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists statement that reprimanded her for promoting at-home childbirth, saying that a hospital was the "safest setting" for having a baby. In The Business of Being Born , the former talk-show host documents the delivery of her second son in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment. More »

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      celebrity  • celebrity pregnancy  • American Medical Association  • documentary film  • medical studies

  • April 2008

    • Merck Used Ghostwriters to Draft Rosy Vioxx Studies

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 15, 08 7:51 PM CDT

      Merck Used Ghostwriters to Draft Rosy Vioxx Studies

      Merck used its own ghostwriters to draft articles minimizing risks of its drug Vioxx, then found medical researchers to lend their names to the research, the Wall Street Journal reports. Merck, which pulled the painkiller from shelves four years ago over heart-attack risks, rejects the claims as "misleading." They appear in tomorrow's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association . More »

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      ethics  • pharmaceutical companies  • Merck  • Vioxx  • medical studies  • JAMA

    • Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 15, 08 4:25 AM CDT

      Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

      The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone cortisol plays in slumps, reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      stock market  • Wall Street  • men  • hormones  • testosterone  • bear market  • medical studies  • risky trading  • bull market  • masculinity  • hormone therapy

    • Baby Zzzs Linked to Obesity

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Apr 8, 08 7:56 AM CDT

      Baby Zzzs Linked to Obesity

      Babies who get less than 12 hours of shut-eye a day double their risk of being overweight by the time they're 3 years old, a new study finds. The risk is even higher for little ones who watch two hours of TV a day, the Daily Telegraph reports. If habits aren't changed, more than 25% of all children are expected to be obese by 2050, experts warn. More »

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      children  • obesity  • parenting  • childhood obesity  • babies  • sleep  • sleep deprivation  • sleep disorder  • toddler  • television watching  • medical studies

  • March 2008

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