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- 1From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 19, Issue 1)Books about health and medicine once occupied only a few feet of shelf space in the average book-store. But today this category is more likely to fill an aisle than a shelf -- making it vastly harder for anyone a build a...
- 2From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 19, Issue 1)Citation Only
- 3From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 22, Issue 10)A number of studies have shown that obesity in men raises the risk of stroke, the third leading cause of death in the United States. Research on women, however, has been less conclusive. Now the largest report to date on...
- 4From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 22, Issue 3)Finasteride and terazosin, drugs commonly given to men with enlarged prostate glands, were found by researchers at the Veterans Admin, not to be as effective as once thought. Other options for benign prostate disease,...
- 5From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 16, Issue 6)Is it possible that middle-aged drug addicts got hooked in the womb? Not exactly, but Bertil Jacobson and his colleagues at the Ulleraker University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden, have uncovered evidence that babies whose...
- 6From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 19, Issue 1)Citation Only
- 7From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 19, Issue 1)Books about health and medicine once occupied only a few feet of shelf space in the average bookstore. But today this category is more likely to fill an aisle than a shelf -- making it vastly harder for anyone to build a...
- 8From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 20, Issue 6)Non-steroidal antiinflamatory drugs such as Nuprin and Advil can reduce pain, swelling and other ailments associated with arthritis and menstrual cramps; but the drugs can also cause gastrointestinal disorders if abused....
- 9From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 21, Issue 5)The most important medical advances in 1995 include the discovery of genetic factors related to obesity and beast cancer, the development a treatment for sickle cell anemia and findings showing problems with calcium...
- 10From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 25, Issue 7)Researchers at a hospital in Sweden recently studied this phenomenon by interviewing 11,785 patients who had undergone general anesthesia, i.e., medications were used to render the patients unconscious. General...
- 11From: Harvard Health Letter.Outbreaks of some viral infections, including measles and hepatitis A, are increasing across the country. Infectious diseases continue to make headlines in the United States and threaten public health. This year we've...
- 12From: Harvard Health Letter.Surviving the Medicare maze Medicare, once the post-retirement panacea, is now just the starting point for seniors' health care coverage. Aging holds many sobering surprises, and some don't even involve mirrors. Not...
- 13From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 19, Issue 1)Books about health and medicine once occupied only a few feet of shelf space in the average bookstore. But today this category is more likely to fill an aisle than a shelf--making it vastly harder for anyone to build a...
- 14From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 23, Issue 6)Research indicates that alendronate (Fosamax) is almost as effective as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in preventing bone-thinning disease in postmenopausal women. In one study alendronate increased bone density by...
- 15From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 20, Issue 4)Antioxidant vitamins may not be as good for the body as was once thought. Much touted for their ability to fight heart disease and cancer, Vitamin C, beta carotene and Vitamin E are now found to have some possible...
- 16From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 24, Issue 5)Two reports indicate that electromagnetic surveillance systems, which are widely used to detect theft in retail stores, supermarkets, and libraries, can interfere with pacemakers and implantable defibrillators,...
- 17From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 25, Issue 4)At close range The GlucoWatch has two sensors on its underside that are in contact with the wearers skin. The sensors use a process called reverse iontophoresis to draw glucose out of the skins interstitial fluid - not...
- 18From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 25, Issue 6)Much of stroke and heart attack prevention has a common refrain: exercise, don't smoke, avoid high blood pressure. But there is good reason for the echo. Fundamentally, heart attacks and strokes are vascular diseases,...
- 19From: Harvard Health Letter. (Vol. 19, Issue 1)Books about health and medicine once occupied only a few feet of shelf space in the average book-store. But today this category is more likely to fill an aisle than a shelf -- making it vastly harder for anyone to build...
- 20From: Harvard Health Letter.The no-name cancer Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma may not have much name recognition, but it's common and * the good news * often treatable, if not curable. Unlike the cancers that affect the breast, lung, or prostate,...