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WASHINGTON (AP) A new survey of Sept. 11-related illnesses has found an alarming increase in asthma Д 12 times higher than normal Д among those who toiled on the toxic debris piles of ground zero.
The study was released Monday by the New York City Department of Health, based on responses gathered by the […]
Last January in Freehold Township, New Jersey, a car driven by a 17-year-old high school student, with two fellow students as passengers, passed a car being driven by another teenager at 70 miles an hour in a 50-mile zone. The passing vehicle crashed into an oncoming van. Three boys and the 68-year-old van driver were […]
Severely obese people who have weight-loss surgery are less likely to die from heart disease, diabetes and cancer seven to 10 years following the procedure than similarly heavy people who don’t have the operation, according to two studies in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine examined […]
WASHINGTON (AP) Nursing mothers who take codeine should watch their infants for increased sleepiness or other signs of overdose, federal health officials warned Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration warning of the rare but serious side effect was prompted by a 2006 report of the death of a nursing infant whose mother was given […]
Q. Most people I know believe that its better to order weaker glasses than were prescribed because the correct prescription weakens your eyes even more and results in your needing a stronger prescription down the line. Is that true?
A. Not at all, said Dr. Donald DAmico, chairman of the department of ophthalmology at Weill […]
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