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                    [Title] => Doctors ignore advice on sore throats, bronchitis
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Repeated warnings that antibiotics don't work for most sore throats and bronchitis have failed to stop overuse: Doctors prescribed these drugs for most adults seeking treatment at a rate that remained high over more than a decade, researchers found.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-05 03:50:57 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462217 [AuthorName] => Lindsey Tanner [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/181/l7wd.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 459852 [Title] => Statin reduces life-threatening leg vein clots [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - New findings from a landmark study revealed that the cholesterol-lowering drug rosuvastatin cuts the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) by 43 percent.

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This was the remark of Prof. Thomas Radecki, M.D., one of the world’s renowned authorities on melatonin, in his published paper.

According to Radecki, melatonin production tends to be reduced or lacks the normal cycling pattern in old age and in many diseases, including dementia, HIV infection, anorexia nervosa, autism, heart attacks, heart failure, migraines, and obesity.
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The study, made by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, confirmed earlier studies which said that women who work graveyard shifts may be at higher risk of having colon and breast cancer.
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Repeated warnings that antibiotics don't work for most sore throats and bronchitis have failed to stop overuse: Doctors prescribed these drugs for most adults seeking treatment at a rate that remained high over more than a decade, researchers found.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-05 03:50:57 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462217 [AuthorName] => Lindsey Tanner [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/181/l7wd.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 459852 [Title] => Statin reduces life-threatening leg vein clots [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - New findings from a landmark study revealed that the cholesterol-lowering drug rosuvastatin cuts the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) by 43 percent.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313282 [Title] => Melatonin shows anti-cancer, other benefits [Summary] => Research on the food supplement melatonin looks very promising, especially in view of exciting recent findings.

This was the remark of Prof. Thomas Radecki, M.D., one of the world’s renowned authorities on melatonin, in his published paper.

According to Radecki, melatonin production tends to be reduced or lacks the normal cycling pattern in old age and in many diseases, including dementia, HIV infection, anorexia nervosa, autism, heart attacks, heart failure, migraines, and obesity.
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The study, made by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, confirmed earlier studies which said that women who work graveyard shifts may be at higher risk of having colon and breast cancer.
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