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Cannabis therapy 'may be harmful'
Cannabis extracts used in medicine may have harmful, rather than the beneficial effects that are intended, it has been reported.
Tots with sensitive taste buds eat fewer veggies
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Preschoolers who are sensitive to bitter flavors may be especially likely to turn their noses up at vegetables, a new study shows.
CORRECTION: Laser useful for severe facial acne
[Corrects story posted July 24, 2006. In Paragraph 4, corrects researcher's affiliation, which was erroneously stated in original version as the University of Texas School of Medicine in Houston.]
Obesity weighs more heavily on women than men
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being overweight puts a greater burden on women's health than men's, a new study shows.
Four-drug strategy reduces repeat miscarriages
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For women who experience repeated unexplained miscarriages, the combination of prednisone, aspirin, folate, and progesterone increases their chances of having baby, a team of clinicians from Austria reports in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Vegan diet reverses diabetes symptoms, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet, researchers said on Thursday.
No easy fix for emergency rooms, experts say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lack of staff, space and equipment hobbles the U.S. emergency medical system and almost no steps have been taken to improve things despite numerous warnings, emergency room professionals told Congress on Wednesday.
Drug combo works well for diabetes and high lipids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with diabetes who also have abnormal levels of blood fats, or lipids, the combination of two types of cholesterol-lowering drugs seems to work better than either one alone, researchers report.
Getting exercise not easy for folks with arthritis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The benefits of exercise for people with arthritis are well established. However, arthritis patients say they face a number of barriers to continued physical activity, including a dearth of specialized exercise programs, a focus-group study shows.
U.S. babies finding early voice through sign language
Nine-month-old Alexandra lets her mother know when she is hungry. Andrew, 11 months, makes it clear he wants some milk. They may be too young to speak, but Alexandra and Andrew have joined the growing numbers of hearing babies who are learning sign language to tell their parents what they are thinking.
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