Disease prevention often costs more than it saves (AP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
AP - When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to hire a personal lifestyle coach to help her lose weight and prevent diabetes. Suppose that the coaching works for Mrs. Jones, and she is spared diabetes and all the resulting health bills.
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Germany smashes fake Viagra ring: customs (AFP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
AFP - German customs authorities said Wednesday they had smashed a ring selling millions of counterfeit male potency tablets online from India and other Asian countries after raids in five cities.
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A Little Flute Music To Warm The Cave
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 24, 2009
Archaeologists have unearthed the world's oldest musical instruments: flutes. These vulture-bone flutes no doubt helped warm our ancestors' spirits as they pushed north into Europe's hostile Ice Age conditions.
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UN reports decline in cultivation of some drugs (AP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
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Salty Sea May Lurk Under Saturn Moon
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 24, 2009
Salty ice grains inside in Saturn's outer ring point to a possible underground ocean on the moon Enceladus.
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Weight-loss surgery cuts cancer rate in obese women (AFP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
AFP - Weight-loss surgery that curbs food intake by stitching up parts of the stomach or small intestine reduces the risk of cancer in obese women by more than 40 percent, according to a study released Thursday.
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Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies (AP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
AP - Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. It's a surprise finding. Psychiatrists from the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, who were studying perceptions of beauty, had expected women to spend more time than men cooing over pictures of extra-cute babies. Nope.
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Obesity While Young Boosts Pancreatic Cancer Risk (HealthDay)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 23, 2009
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Slain Soldiers Offer Clues To Protect The Living
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 23, 2009
In 2001, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology began conducting autopsies on all slain service men and women. Captain Craig T. Mallak describes how the physical (and sometimes virtual) autopsies of soldiers have assisted in the design of body armor, helmets and vehicle shields.
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Ad Watch: Exploiting Public's Distrust Of Insurers
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 23, 2009
A new ad by a major activist group blames the health care system's ills on greedy insurance companies and promotes a government-backed insurer as the cure. But the diagnosis is flawed.
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