p>Researchers from the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have revealed that the number of Americans treated for high blood pressure has dramatically increased. The main cause of the increase is obesity.
p>A study processing data gathered on more than 30,000 people showed that the number of hypertension patients increased from 50.3 percent to [...]

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p>Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp.
p>Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles studied people doing Web searches while their brain activity was recorded with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans.
p>People who had Internet experience used more of their brain during the search, suggesting that that act [...]

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p>The use of acetaminophen in the first year of life is associated with an increased risk for asthma, eczema and allergic runny nose. Acetaminophen is sold in the United States under the brand name Tylenol, and is used as an ingredient in many other pain relievers.
p>The study looked at data from more than 190,000 children [...]

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p>A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients in a new study had insufficient levels of vitamin D. The fraction of patients with vitamin D insufficiency, 55 percent, was significantly more than patients with Alzheimer’s disease (41 percent) or healthy elderly people (36 percent).
p>The finding adds to evidence that low vitamin D is associated with Parkinson’s.
p>In addition, [...]

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p>According to a House subcommittee report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention failed to act for at least a year on warnings that trailers housing refugees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde. Instead, the CDC demoted the scientist who questioned the initial assessment that the trailers were safe.
p>One year later, [...]

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p>Scientists say that there are traces of prescription drugs in the water coming from many people’s faucets — everything from antidepressants to heart medication to birth control pills to caffeine.
p>While the long-term health risks are unclear, there is evidence that medicines in the water, as well as hormones and chemicals, have negatively affected frogs and [...]

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p>The derivatives market is worth more than $516 trillion, roughly 10 times the value of the entire world’s output: it’s been called the “ticking time-bomb”. Unsurprisingly, this news comes to us from Britain; the U.S. media is not going to mention it.
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p>The complex and opaque derivatives markets, land of hedge funds and complex financial instruments, [...]

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p>The “basics” of computer use could fill a book, but here are a few to get you started. You may already know most of them … or they may come as a welcome surprise:
p>You can double-click a word to highlight it in any document, e-mail or Web page.
p>When you get an e-mail message from eBay [...]

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p>More U.S. adults used the Internet than doctors to obtain health and medical information over the past year. This is a noticeable change in behavior from previous years, as doctors have traditionally been the top source of health information.
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p>This finding comes from Cybercitizen Health v8.0, a market research and strategic advisory service. br />br />Consumers [...]

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p>Food labeled “Made in the U.S.A.” can still contain tainted ingredients from China. Amid recent concerns over the safety of food products from China, the FDA says it has stepped up efforts to increase screening imports. But the screening applies only to food products, and not to raw ingredients.
p>Under FDA rules, when reprocessing occurs or [...]

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