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 Just because a person doesn't have chest pain doesn't mean he or she isn't having a heart attack. Debunking a medical myth, a nationwide study of 434,877 heart attack victims found that a surprising one third showed up at the hospital without chest pain
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 Over the years, doctors have tried a variety of treatments for chronic coldlike symptoms with limited success.
Then last year, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., reported that they had found another possible cause: an overly aggressive immune reaction to fungi in the nose. "It is a total shift of the paradigm," said Dr. Jens Ponikau, one of the Mayo researchers.
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 The United States spends more per person on health
care than any other country, yet in overall quality its care ranks
37th in the world, says a World Health Organization analysis.
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 Findings, published in the
January issue of the Journal Of Pediatrics, suggested that preschoolers
who fill up on juice may be getting too much sugar or missing out on
more nutritious foods.
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 It is not easy to avoid MSG
when it shows up in so many different foods under many different names. MSG and its derivatives,
hydrolyzed proteins and autolyzed yeast, have no nutritional value or preservative value. They
are used solely to enhance food flavors. Food companies use MSG to flavor, to hide unwelcome
tastes, and to cover inferior ingredients used in products.
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Despite public concern that cell phones might cause cancer or other problems, there is no evidence
that radiation from the hugely popular phones poses a significant health risk, FDA scientists stressed.
Nor is there proof that cell phones are risk-free, the FDA cautioned. A few studies suggest
the radio waves emitted by cell phone antennae might cause certain biological effects. With
80 million Americans using cell phones and more buying them every day, uncovering even a
small risk could be important to public health.
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