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1. Relax to Music, Ease Blood Pressure
   

   May 15, 2008 -- Blood pressure a bit too high? Spending half an hour a day listening to music and breathing slowly may help. That's what happened in a new Italian study of 28 adults taking drugs to control their mild high blood pressure (hypertension). First, the patients wore a device that tracked

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2. 51% of Insured Americans on Medications
   

   May 14, 2008 -- A new report shows that for the first time, more than half of Americans with health insurance are taking medications for chronic conditions. The report comes from Medco Health Solutions Inc., a pharmacy benefits management company. Medco analyzed data on more than 2.7 million insured

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3. Does Asthma Increase Adult Suicide Risk?
   

   May 14, 2008 -- New research suggests a link between asthma and an increased risk for suicide attempts in adults, but not suicidal thoughts without attempts. Compared to the general population, people in the study with asthma were roughly 50% more likely to attempt suicide after researchers controll

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4. Glutton for Sugar? Genes Get Heap of Blame
   

   May 14, 2008 -- Scientists may have found a genetic reason why some people eat more sugar than others. The key may be a certain variation in the GLUT2 gene, according to researchers including graduate student Karen Eny and associate professor Ahmed El-Sohemy, PhD, of the University of Toronto's nutr

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5. FDA OKs Generic Requip
   

   May 14, 2008 -- The FDA has approved generic versions of the drug Requip made by four companies. Generic ropinirole hydrochloride will be made by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Roxane Laboratories, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, and Par Pharmaceutical. Requip, made by GlaxoSmithKline, is used to treat restless l

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6. How Fit Are You? New Test Tells
   

   May 14, 2008 -- Remember running the 600-yard dash as part of fitness tests in grade school? Now there's a grown-up version of that test for adults. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports today launched its Adult Fitness Test to gauge aerobic fitness, strength, and flexibility. The c

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7. Picking the Best Embryo for IVF
   

   May 13, 2008 -- Genetic fingerprinting can find the best embryo in a batch, upping the odds of success for in vitro fertilization with just one implant. In vitro fertilization, or IVF, has two major drawbacks. The first is that the early embryo doesn't always survive implantation into the womb. To o

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8. Election '08: Who Has the Health Care Edge?
   

   May 13, 2008 -- Could Sen. John McCain's health care plan outsell the Democrats' plan this November? Democrats are traditionally seen to have a home-court advantage when it comes to the health care debate. But Washington's political pollsters say that McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, has

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9. Stay Fit, Avoid Breast Cancer?
   

   May 13, 2008 -- Women who engage in regular, consistent exercise are less likely to develop breast cancer than women who are less active, according to two new studies. Exercise has long been prescribed as a way to help ward off disease. Now experts believe physical activity may help lower a woman's

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10. Ultrasound Helps Breast Cancer Detection
    

    May 13, 2008 -- Adding ultrasound to mammography improves breast cancer detection in high-risk women, but the rate of false-positive findings is also much higher than with mammography alone, a new study confirms. When ultrasound was added to mammography, 28% more cancers were found than when mammogr

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