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Friday, October 9, 2009

Heartburn Drugs Deemed Safe For Fetuses, According To Researchers

We can not leave pregnant women suffering from heartburn, regurgitation and trouble swallowing without a suitable treatment.

Drugs used to treat these symptoms like Famotidine, Cimetidine, and Ranitidine are safe for fetuses.

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Immune Cell Entry Into Pancreatic Islets Key To Understanding Type 1 Diabetes Origins

Could understanding the relation between T cells +immune cells) and islets of langerhans stop or prevent type-I diabetes?

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Immune Cell Entry Into Pancreatic Islets Key To Understanding Type 1 Diabetes Origins

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Vital Signs - Nutrition - Lower Depression Risk Linked to Mediterranean Diet - NYTimes.com

Researchers found that the Mediterranean Diet not only protects your heart but it also protects your mental health.

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Doc makes more cash selling clothes on eBay - CNN.com

Dr. Jennifer Lickteig examines patients at the Linn Community Care Health Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She says she earned $120,000 last year on eBay, more than she did practicing medicine.

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Shingles Raises Stroke Risk: Study - US News and World Report

The first study to link shingles specifically with stroke which can be ischemic, caused by blood clot blocking a brain artery, or hemorrhage, doe to rupture of a blood vessel.

It was found that stroke results from herpes zoster virus-induced vasculopathy (
the vessel to the brain damaged by the the virus could be occluded or ruptured).

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Shingles Raises Stroke Risk: Study - US News and World Report

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