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Health Highlights: March 18, 2006
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Nonprofit Hospitals Get Re…
Hysterectomy Can Lower Sexual Desire
FRIDAY, seo services March 17 (HealthDay News) — Hysterectomy involving ovary removal (oophorectomy) increases a woman’s likelihood of experienc…
Health Tip: Asthmatics Often Have Pet Allergies
(HealthDay News) — Only about 10 percent of the general population has pet allergies, but 30 percent of people with asthma do, acco…
Preventive Mastectomy Offers Women Relief
FRIDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) — Most women diagnosed with breast cancer who choose to have their unaffected breast removed alon…
Imaging System Helps Detect Cervical Pre-Cancer
FRIDAY, companies March 17 (HealthDay News) — A new system to help doctors identify pre-cancerous cells on a woman’s cervix has been approved…
FRIDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) — Longer courses of treatment with decitabine — a drug currently undergoing clinical trials — m…
Clinical Trials Update: March 17, 2006
(HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Heart Disease
Radiant Research cu…
Health Tip: Kids with Asthma Can Play Sports
(HealthDay News) — Not long ago, many doctors didn’t allow children with asthma to play sports or do anything physically strenuous….
Health Tip: Teen Girls Need Lots of Sleep
(HealthDay News) — Research shows that teen and pre-teen girls need more than nine hours of sleep a night.
Without it, the…
Phone Counseling Helps Smokers Quit
THURSDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) — Telephone counseling and care is more helpful to smokers trying to quit than routine care pr…