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ANCHOR LEAD: CAN MORE CALORIES EXTEND LIFE IN PEOPLE WITH ALS? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Higher calorie diets may help people with advanced ALS, or Lou Gerhig’s disease, live longer, a recent study in the Lancet found. Jeffrey Rothstein, an ALS …
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ANCHOR LEAD: CAN A NEW BLOOD TEST DISCERN YOUR RISK FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS A constellation of ten chemicals found in your blood can predict with about 90% accuracy your risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study purports. …
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Electronic cigarette manufacturers would have us all believe such devices aid smokers to quit, but a recent study provides abundant evidence that among American youth the converse is actually true. Michael Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of …
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Health Newsfeed for Friday, March 14, 2014 ANCHOR LEAD: THE FDA HAS APPROVED A ONCE A WEEK FORMULATION OF A DIABETES DRUG, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS As the number of medications someone must take increases, so does confusion, and often, noncompliance. …
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Health newsfeed for Thursday, March 13, 2014 ANCHOR LEAD: TESTING MATERNAL BLOOD HELPS IDENTIFY GENETIC ABNORMALITIES IN THE BABY, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS A method for analyzing the mother’s blood for pieces of DNA shed by her fetus has been validated …
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Health newsfeed for Wednesday, March 12, 2014 ANCHOR LEAD: A ROBUST INFRASTRUCTURE EXISTS TO IDENTIFY NEW FLU STRAINS, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Most novel flu strains arise in and around Asia, then make their way around the globe. Now a study …
