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CHICAGO Here’s some good and bad news for chocoholics: Dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure, but it requires an amount less than two Hershey’s Kisses to do it, a small study suggests.
The new research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it’s the first to suggest […]

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Doctors have been accused of trying to profit from patients after switching to rip-off 0844 telephone numbers at local GP surgeries.
Millions of patients face having to pay more to phone their GP after 1,200 practices abandoned their cheaper area code for numbers which give them a slice of the call costs.
Calls to […]

CHICAGO (AP) More than 30% of American adults have abused alcohol or suffered from alcoholism at some point in their lives, and few have received treatment, according to a new government study. Alcoholics who got treatment first received it, on average, at about age 30 Д eight years after they developed dependence on drinking, […]

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The partner of a talented musician and composer who died from undiagnosed diabetes has received substantial out-of-court damages from his GP.
Music teacher Adam Bell, 34, had classic symptoms of Type 1 diabetes, including thirst, tiredness and weight loss. He lived a two-minute walk from the surgery of his GP, Dr Paul Davis, but […]

WASHINGTON (AP) An old ulcer operation is getting new attention as a possible alternative obesity surgery: a quick snip of a nerve that helps control hunger.
It’s far from clear if cutting the vagus nerve really helps Д initial pilot studies in a few dozen patients have just begun. Skeptics abound, and even proponents […]