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		<title>What Roller Derby Can Teach Us about Our Germs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much as we hate to admit it, we’re covered in germs. Or, more specifically, with microbes — the tiny bacteria and viruses that can make us sick but can also be helpful as well. And we have billions, if not trillions of them blanketing our skin. We know a lot how easily these &#8220;bad&#8221; bugs can jump from person to person, or transfer via a doorknob or handrail — that’s the basic mode of transportation for flu and cold viruses, after all. But can &#8220;good&#8221; bugs be just as facile at making these transfers? And what impact can these back-and-forths have on our health? Curious about that question, Jessica Green, director of the Biology and Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon, decided to study the creatures that reside on our skin. And what better way to analyze how readily they pass from one person to another than through a contact sport? Green, it turns out, is a three-year veteran of the Emerald City Roller Girls, a Eugene, Ore., roller derby league. With firsthand experience of the amount of physical contact that team members have with each other, Green figured roller derby athletes would make an ideal test population for tracking the microbes that make their home on skin. MORE: The Connection Between Dirty Diapers and Childhood Health Green and her team tested the entire team&#8217;s skin microbiome — the sum total of all the microbes living on each skater&#8217;s skin — by sequencing the bugs they obtained from the forearms of team members, both before and after an hour-long bout. Reporting in the journal PeerJ, she and her colleagues found that, remarkably, members of the same teams tended to have similar compositions of bacteria on their skin before the match. That could be the result of their close physical contact with each other, but could also reflect things such as their common environment, which could lead to similar skin composition (moist or dry, for example) that attracts similar microbial strains. Less remarkably, they also documented that these bugs do<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82142&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Aspirin Keep Skin Cancer At Bay?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/11/can-aspirin-keep-skin-cancer-at-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest study suggests that the popular pain killer can inhibit melanoma. In the largest investigation of its kind, published in the journal Cancer, researchers found that women who regularly take aspirin have a decreased risk of developing melanoma, and that the protection may be cumulative — the longer they take it, the lower their risk. More than 61,000 people were diagnosed with skin cancer in the U.S. in 2009, the latest year for which statistics were collected by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and deaths from melanoma cost $3.5 billion in lost productivity each year. Despite greater awareness of the dangers of tanning, as well as the importance of protecting sun-exposed exposed skin with clothing or sunscreen, diagnoses of melanoma have inched upward by 2% each year between 2000 and 2009. (MORE: Can Aspirin Ward Off Skin Cancer?) In the latest study, the researchers studied 59,806 women between ages 50 to 79 enrolled in the Women&#8217;s Health Initiative who were followed for around 12 years. The women answered questions about their medication use, diet and other lifestyle habits such as sun exposure. And even after controlling for skin cancer risk factors such as tanning and low use of sunscreen, the women who reported taking aspirin at least twice a week showed a 21% lower risk of melanoma than the women who didn&#8217;t take the pain killer. And the longer they stayed on aspirin, the lower their risk; women who used aspirin regularly for one to four years for example, showed an 11% lower risk of melanoma compared to those who didn&#8217;t take the pills for that time, while women who continued taking aspirin for five or more years enjoyed a 30% lower chance of developing melanoma. How is the pain killer connected to cancer? The explain could lie with inflammation, the potentially damaging reaction by the immune system to stresses, irritants and foreign intruders such as bacteria and viruses. Since aspirin works to reduce inflammation, it could help to quiet down the processes that can trigger cells to grow abnormally.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82031&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zit Zapper: How (Good) Bacteria Could Be the Answer to Clear Skin</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/28/zit-zapper-how-good-bacteria-could-be-the-answer-to-clear-skin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s one of the crueler realities of teendom — some kids are plagued with monster zits and problem skin, while others tend to sail through adolescence with nary a blemish. Researchers may finally be able to explain why. Pimples, as skin experts have long known, are the result of infected and inflamed pores that are aggravated by bacteria. But not all bacteria residing in the skin are created equal, and some are more prone to causing breakouts than others. In a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) explored the world of the skin pore to get a deeper understanding of which species make these niches home and how they&#8217;re affected by stress and the environment. Previous studies suggested that one particular species, Propionibacterium acnes, was largely responsible for the pimples that erupt during adolescence; when researchers took samples of zits and cultured the microbial residents, P. acnes proved to be the most numerous. In addition, experiments in animals also showed that introducing P. acnes to the skin could trigger an immune response that resembled a breakout. (MORE: The Good Bugs: How the Germs in Your Body Keep You Healthy) But when Huiying Li in UCLA&#8217;s department of molecular and medical pharmacology and her team compared the bacteria grown from people with problem skin to those grown from clear-skinned individuals, they were disappointed. It turns out that almost everybody harbors populations of P. acnes, and that the bacterium comprises 90% of the microbes that live in the pores. “We started out thinking that something other than the species we previously cultured would show up in clear-skinned people, but we didn’t find that,” says Li. “There was no difference in bacteria between the participants with acne and healthy-skinned people.” She suspected that there might be differences in the strains of P. acnes habiting the different skin types, and took advantage of recent advances in gene sequencing to map out all the genes of the P. acnes strains isolated from the participants. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=81187&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Leash on Infections: Dog That Sniffs Out a Deadly Superbug</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/17/a-new-leash-on-infections-dog-that-sniffs-out-a-deadly-superbug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beagles are known as good hunters. So why not send them in search of deadly bacteria? That&#8217;s what Dutch doctors are hoping to do by training the dogs&#8217; famously sensitive sense of smell to sniff out deadly pathogens that plague hospitals and put patients at risk. Doctors spent two months training a 2-year-old beagle named Cliff to learn to lie down or sit whenever he smelled the presence of Clostridium difficile, stubborn bacteria that cause severe, hard-to-treat diarrhea and sometimes life-threatening colitis. Cases of C. difficile have reached historical highs in recent years, claiming 14,000 lives in the U.S. each year, primarily in hospital or long-term care settings. Reporting in the BMJ, the researchers say the hound accurately detected C. difficile in nearly all of 50 stool samples and accurately did not respond to another 50 samples that were negative for the bacteria. (MORE: A New Way to Detect Lung Cancer? Dogs Can Sniff it Out) That success justified testing Cliff&#8217;s sense of smell around patients in a hospital, and indeed he correctly identified 25 of 30 people who were sick with the infection and also identified 265 of 270 people who were not sick — a remarkable rate of accuracy for a diagnostic tool that&#8217;s almost instantaneous and completely noninvasive. It&#8217;s also encouraging since Cliff was trained to detect even the slightest presence of C. difficile, wafting in the air from a wooden stick, piece of fabric or plastic vial carrying the bacteria. &#8220;It would be very interesting to see whether you can use a dog like Cliff to actually reduce C. difficile incidence,&#8221; says lead study author Dr. Marije Bomers in an e-mail to TIME. Bomers, an internal-medicine doctor at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, says that dogs could potentially conduct a &#8220;pet scan&#8221; of hospitals or health-care facilities where C. difficile is a particular problem. Early detection, she hopes, could lead to stricter hygiene and containment strategies that could ultimately lead to reduced transmission. &#8220;The idea holds great potential,&#8221; Bomers says, &#8220;but more research has to be done<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=76210&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power Up, Slim Down: Mobile Apps May Help With Weight Loss</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/11/power-up-slim-down-mobile-apps-may-help-with-weight-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even for older adults who aren&#8217;t tech-savvy, simple digital tools and occasional phone support can dramatically improve weight-management success – and at a fraction of the cost of intensive one-on-one counseling. That&#8217;s what the latest research on the subject published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine shows. Scientists worked with 70 overweight and obese adults enrolled in the Veterans Affairs weight-loss program, MOVE!, and randomly selected half of them to receive tech-based support tools in addition to MOVE!&#8217;s usual health-education class. Over three months to one year, people in the tech group lost 7 lbs more, on average, than people just attending classes – even though almost everyone in the study was computer-illiterate when the program began. People in the tech group were also almost four times as likely to have lost at least 5% of their body mass after six months, and twice as likely to have maintained a weight loss of that amount after one year. But the secret to the new technology&#8217;s success, researchers say, are relatively low-tech and well-established principles of making weight-management convenient and ensuring that people feel accountable for their choices. &#8220;As behavior-change specialists, we know a very sad truth: knowledge is rarely enough to change behavior,&#8221; says Bonnie Spring, lead author on the new study, and a professor of preventive medicine and the director for the Center of Behavior and Health at Northwestern Medicine. &#8220;What it [usually] takes to treat obesity is a lot of in-person intensive counseling,&#8221; Spring says. But that&#8217;s not easy to provide within the current health-care system. &#8220;Physicians are asked to be responsible for their patients&#8217; weight management,&#8221; she says, &#8220;but they don’t really have the time or the expertise.&#8221; That&#8217;s why she and her colleagues searched for a technology-based &#8220;work-around&#8221;: something that would be inexpensive and would not require a big time commitment from users, but would still provide the personalized attention and frequent feedback that makes expert counseling so effective. In the study, every volunteer was encouraged to attend the biweekly MOVE! classes, which taught nutrition, realistic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75814&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anderson Cooper&#8217;s Eyeburn: How Common Is Eye Damage From The Sun?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/05/anderson-coopers-eyeburn-how-common-is-eye-damage-from-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday afternoon&#8217;s epsiode of  Anderson Live, host Anderson Cooper told viewers he sunburnt his eyes on a recent trip to Portugal, and was subsequently blind for 36 hours. Cooper said the injury occurred while he was on the water, without sunglasses, for an extended period of time reporting for CBS&#8217;s 60 Minutes. “I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire, my eyeballs and I think, oh maybe I have sand in my eyes or something,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;I douse my eyes with water. Anyway, it turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind. I went blind for 36 hours.” (MORE: A Wristband that Tells You When to Get Out of the Sun) Just how common is sunburning your eyes? According to Dr. Deborah Sarnoff, senior vice president of The Skin Cancer Foundation and practicing dermatologist at Cosmetique in New York, sunburns to the extent of Cooper&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t happen too often, but it is possible if you&#8217;re not wearing the right protection. &#8220;We have sunscreen we can put on our skin, but we don’t have eye drops that offer a protective film for the cornea, so it is really important that everyone, and especially people with fair or light eyes wear sunglasses that protect against both UVA and UVB rays,&#8221; says Sarnoff. According to Sarnoff, the outer eyeball layer, known as the cornea, is similar to the outer layer of  skin. When it is burned by the sun&#8217;s rays, the cornea becomes inflamed&#8211;an effect called keratitis&#8211;which can be quite painful and, as in Cooper&#8217;s case, can cause temporary blindness. For someone like Cooper, who has light irises, there is a higher risk of burns. And like sunburns on the skin, burning your cornea causes cumulative damage. &#8220;In the short-run you heal, but in the long-run sometimes the damage builds. We can get a sunburn, and we can heal from it, and the inflammation can go away, but it can add to the chronic damage and put us at risk for skin cancer,&#8221; says Sarnoff. Eye issues like cataracts,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75354&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Diet Can Lower Risk of Recurrent Heart Attack and Stroke</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/04/healthy-diet-can-lower-risk-of-recurrent-heart-attack-and-stroke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re at high risk of having a heart attack, changing your diet can significantly lower your chances of heart disease. But how much can fruits and vegetables help someone who already has heart trouble? Quite a bit, according to the latest study to investigate whether diet can reduce heart attack and stroke among those who are trying to avoid second or third events and are already taking medications to control blood pressure and cholesterol. In the largest-ever of its kind, published in the journal Circulation, a group of international researchers say healthy eating can have an added beneficial effect on the heart on top of the influence of heart-protecting medications. &#8220;We encourage everyone to eat healthy. But especially high-risk patients, we want them to know: Take your medication, but modify your diet as well,&#8221; says lead study author Mahshid Dehghan, a researcher at the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, ON, in Canada, one of the centers involved in the study. &#8220;Some people think that if medication lowers their blood pressure, healthy eating doesn’t matter. We want them to know that this is wrong,&#8221; she says. MORE: The Oz Diet The study involved more than 30,000 adults aged 55 and older, all with a history of heart disease, stroke, or diabetes with organ damage and living in 40 different countries. All were enrolled in one of two different drug trials to test the effectiveness of blood-pressure medications. As part of the trials, the patients answered detailed questionnaires about their lifestyles, including diet: How often did they typically eat fish? fruits and vegetables? nuts? red meat? foods that had been deep-fried, or contained trans fats? They were also asked about behaviors that have been linked to heart disease such as smoking, alcohol consumption and lack of physical activity. Based on their responses, Dehghan and her colleagues assigned each participant an overall diet-quality score that reflected the composite quality of his food intake. Five years later, it was clear that participants with diet-quality scores in the top 20% experienced far better<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75180&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protection from Whooping Cough Vaccine Wanes Over Time</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/29/protection-from-whooping-cough-vaccine-wanes-over-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest report shows not all children are receiving the recommended five doses of pertussis vaccine, but even among those who are, the effectiveness of the immunization wears off. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that while vaccines do work well in protecting against childhood infection with the pertussis bacterium, or whooping cough, that the strongest immunization occurred among kids in the year after their last shot than among those who finished their full immunization series more than five years ago. This is the first-ever study to test the long-term effectiveness of current pertussis vaccines, which contain snippets of the pertussis bacterium and were introduced in the 1990s. The newer shots trigger fewer adverse reactions than previous versions, which contained whole pertussis bacterial cells, but public health officials had been concerned that the effectiveness of the shots weakened over time. The findings are significant in light of the major pertussis outbreaks in the U.S. over the past few years, which have caused illness in tens of thousands nationwide. Earlier this year, the CDC recommended that adults over age 19 also receive another dose of the older, whole cell pertussis vaccine to maintain immunity against the bacterium. Pertussis is highly contagious and sometimes fatal; symptoms including violent, uncontrollable coughing that can lead to breathing problems, pneumonia and convulsions. MORE: How Safe Are Vaccines? For the new study, CDC researchers analyzed data from California&#8217;s major epidemic in 2010, the largest outbreak of the disease in that state for more than 60 years. Comparing 682 kids with confirmed or suspected pertussis to  more than 2,000 healthy kids, researchers could conduct a thorough investigation of the vaccine&#8217;s effectiveness. &#8220;We saw that there was high effectiveness for these vaccines in the short term and they continue to work well,&#8221; says CDC epidemiologist Lara Misegades, the lead study author. &#8220;They are our best tool for preventing pertussis.&#8221; Overall, the study shows, kids with pertussis are eight times as likely to be unvaccinated as healthy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74911&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth More Aware of AIDS, but Too Many Still Don&#8217;t Know Their HIV Status</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/28/youth-more-aware-of-aids-but-too-many-still-dont-know-their-hiv-status/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As World AIDS Day approaches Dec. 1, public health experts are turning the focus on teens and young adults who make up a remarkably high proportion of HIV infections in the U.S. According to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), too few youth are getting tested for HIV. People ages 13 to 24 make up more than a quarter of new HIV infections in the U.S. each year, and over half of those youth infected with HIV are unaware that they are HIV-positive. &#8220;Given everything we know about HIV and how to prevent it after more than 30 years of fighting the disease, it is just unacceptable that young people are becoming infected at such high rates,&#8221; CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said in a teleconference. (MORE: Rethinking HIV: After Five Years of Debate, a New Push for Prevention) Published online as part of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the latest analysis looked at a diverse population of  youth in the 2009 and 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System for 9th to 12th grade students and the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for young adults between ages 18 to 24. The reports shows an estimated 12,200 new HIV infections among them in 2010. Groups with the highest rates include bisexual and gay young men and African-Americans. In 2010 alone, 72% of new infections were among young men who have sex with men (MSM) and 57% were among African Americans. Rates of HIV vary significantly by population and are most common in lower income communities, where lack of access to health care, stigma and discrimination as well as a prevalence of unrecognized and untreated infections allow the virus to spread. &#8220;As we work to drive down new HIV infections in all populations, we have to give particular attention to the next generation, especially African Americans and gay and bisexual young men,&#8221; Frieden said. &#8220;Every young person should know how to protect themselves from HIV and should be empowered to do so.&#8221; The CDC has long pushed for widespread<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74778&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strongest Study Yet Shows Meditation Can Lower Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/14/mind-over-matter-strongest-study-yet-shows-meditation-can-lower-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most doctors say meditation can&#8217;t hurt you, but now there&#8217;s reassuring evidence that it may help you as well when it comes to warding off disease. Previous studies have linked better health outcomes among heart patients who practiced meditation compared to those who did not, but none of those trials could definitively credit the brain-focusing program with the better health results. In the latest trial to address those limitations, however, meditation does appear to have an effect on reducing heart attack, stroke and even early death from heart disease, at least among African-Americans. MORE: Losing Focus? Studies Say Meditation May Help &#8220;The main finding [of our research] is that, added on top of usual medical care, intervention with a mind-body technique — transcendental meditation — can have a major effect on cardiovascular events,&#8221; says Robert Schneider, lead author on the study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes and a professor at the Maharishi University of Management, an institution in Iowa that was founded by the creator of transcendental meditation. He and his colleagues followed 201 African American men and women, who are at higher risk of heart disease than whites, but who also had addition reason to worry about heart attacks and strokes since they were also diagnosed with coronary heart disease. The participants were randomly assigned to participate in either a health education class about heart-friendly diet and exercise, or to attend a transcendental meditation program. Transcendental meditation involves shutting out the outside world and focusing thoughts inward, or resting while remaining alert. All of the participants continued to receive their normal medical care as well, including appropriate medication. MORE: Medical Meditation: Say Om Before Surgery After roughly five years of follow-up, the researchers found a 48% reduction in the overall risk of heart attack, stroke, and death from any cause among members of the meditation group compared to those from the health education group. The meditating group enjoyed an average drop of 4.9 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure compared to the control group and also reported less stress<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73671&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Colonoscopy May Be Enough to Prevent Colon Cancer for Some</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/06/one-colonoscopy-may-be-enough-to-prevent-colon-cancer-for-some/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colonoscopies aren&#8217;t the most comfortable procedures, so it&#8217;s welcome news that not everyone may need the regular exams to stave off colorectal cancer after all. According to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, people whose first colonoscopy is negative may be able to rely on less invasive cancer screening and bypass repeated colonoscopy tests without increasing their risk of developing cancer. And that switch could save as much as $3 billion in health care costs, according to the study, while at the same time reducing the medical harms of screening complications. The results emerged from computer simulations of how likely cancer would develop based on data from the National Cancer Institute&#8217;s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. The scientists created models of how likely colon cancer would develop beginning at age 60 among people with varying levels of risk for the disease if they followed different screening regimens starting at age 50, including colonoscopy once every 10 years, a CT scan of the bowel every five years, or a stool test for markers of colorectal abnormalities every year. (MORE: Can Laxative-Free Colonoscopy Improve Colon Cancer Screening Rates?) Although colonoscopy is the most accurate of the colon cancer tests, it&#8217;s also more expensive and carries a greater risk of side effects. The Annals study suggests that for the low-risk patients who had only one negative colonoscopy result, there would be no difference in their rates of dying of colorectal cancer whether they were screened with repeated colonoscopies or whether they took advantage of alternative and more frequent screening procedures (which are also cheaper and safer). Currently the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group of government-commissioned experts, strongly recommends that men and women aged 50-75 get routine colorectal cancer screening. It doesn&#8217;t recommend one screening method over another, but because it&#8217;s the most reliable, colonoscopy is the most common screening method in the U.S. (MORE: The Curious Link Between Bacteria and Colon Cancer) For patients, however, the procedure itself is a deterrent. To prepare for the test,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73288&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multivitamins Don&#8217;t Lower Risk of Heart Disease Among Men</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/05/multivitamins-dont-lower-risk-of-heart-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A daily multivitamin doesn&#8217;t protect against heart attack, stroke or heart-related death, according to a new large-scale study among men. It&#8217;s the first large trial in which men were randomly assigned to either take a multivitamin or a placebo and then followed to see if the vitamins had any effect on their rate of heart disease. But after 10 years, researchers found no difference in heart-disease rates between the two groups. Previous studies on the topic have been both conflicting and confusing, with some showing a higher risk of early death, including from cancer, among those taking multivitamins or supplements, and others showing a benefit in avoiding death from cancer among men. But most of those trials followed people who chose to take multivitamins and compared them with people who did not, setting up a potential bias since it&#8217;s hard to determine if multivitamin users are more health conscious and therefore do other things to protect their health, including taking a multivitamin, that may account for their lower risk of heart problems. (MORE: The Truth About Vitamin D) For this latest study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers led by Howard Sesso of the Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital and Harvard Medical School studied a group of almost 15,000 male physicians age 50 or older in the Physicians&#8217; Health Study, a long-term trial begun in 1997 that analyzes a number of different health outcomes. The researchers randomly selected half of the physicians to take a daily multivitamin while the other half took a placebo. None of the study participants knew whether they were receiving the real vitamin supplements or an inactive stand-in. Over 11 years of follow up, the physician participants recorded 652 heart attacks and 643 strokes, and 829 men died from a cardiovascular-related cause. But there was no significant difference in the rates of these events between the men who took the multivitamins and the men who did not. The multivitamins didn&#8217;t seem to make any difference at all. (MORE: Nutrition in a Pill?) More than<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73247&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Chickpeas and Lentils Help Control Diabetes?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/23/can-chick-peas-and-lentils-help-to-control-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re a common part of traditional diets in India and Latin America, but in western repasts, legumes or pulses &#8212; that&#8217;s lentils, dried beans, and chick peas &#8212; have generally been a culinary afterthought. That may soon change, however, thanks to new research suggesting legumes alone can improve the health of diabetics. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicines, was funded in part by an association of legume farmers and confirms that simply changing what they eat can help diabetics reduce some of their symptoms, as well as lower their risk of heart disease &#8212; in as little as a few months. MORE: Guide: The 31 Healthiest Foods of All Time (With Recipes) Starting in 2010, researchers in Toronto, Canada, enrolled 121 patients with Type II diabetes and tested their blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and more. Roughly half of the study participants were randomly selected to add a cup of legumes per day to their diet. The other half were told to try to eat more whole-wheat products. After three months, the patients were tested again on the same measures. Both the legume-eaters and the whole-wheat-eaters saw a reduction in their hemoglobin A1c values &#8212; a marker of average blood sugar, for a period of several weeks. But that reduction was slightly larger among the legume group than among the whole-what group: 0.5% compared to 0.3%. And while those changes may seem small, the study authors say that drops of this magnitude are &#8220;therapeutically meaningful,&#8221; and can lead to fewer diabetic symptoms as well as lower doses of medication to control blood sugar levels.  The legume-eaters also achieved modest reductions in body weight relative to the wheat group, losing an average of 5.9 lbs compared to 4.4 lbs, as well as drops in total cholesterol and blood pressure. MORE: Type 2 Diabetes Is Tougher to Treat in Kids and Teens While the study was funded by legume farmers, the results confirm previous findings that showed changes in diet can reduce diabetes symptoms and protect patients from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72129&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bra That Detects Cancer?</title>
		<link>http://style.time.com/2012/10/18/cancer-bra/?iid=sty-main-lede1</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new bra from First Warning Systems claims a series of sensors embedded in the cups can pick up temperature changes in breast tissue and alert doctors to the presence of malignant cells. Read the full story in our companion blog Style &#38; Design.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=71807&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Health Check-Ups Necessary? Study Says Not So Much</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/17/are-health-check-ups-necessary-study-says-not-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting yearly physicals makes intuitive sense—routine checkups can pick up early signs of disease and get you on treatment that could save your life. Or can they? But the latest review, published in the Cochrane Library from the The Cochrane Collaboration shows that such vigilance do not reduce the risk of dying from from serious illness like cancer and heart disease, and may cause unnecessary harm instead. VIDEO: TIME Explains: Cancer Screening Why? Danish researchers studied 14 long-term trials (with a median follow up of nine years) involving 182,880 people, some of whom were offered general health checks and some who were not. Nine of the trials found no differences in the number of deaths during the study period between the groups, including deaths from heart disease or cancer, two conditions that are most commonly assessed during checkups. Overall, the analysis failed to find any differences on hospital admissions, disability, worry, specialist referrals, additional visits to doctors or time off work. One trial did find a 20% increase in diagnoses among those getting more frequent health checks, and others recorded an increase in the number of participants using drugs for hypertension, but these did not translate into better health outcomes. (MORE: Why People Stick with Cancer Screening, Even When It Causes Harm) &#8220;From the evidence we&#8217;ve seen, inviting patients to general health checks is unlikely to be beneficial,&#8221; lead researcher Lasse Krogsbøll of The Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark said in a statement. &#8220;One reason for this might be that doctors identify additional problems and take action when they see patients for other reasons.&#8221; Preventive screening remains controversial—and confusing— for health care consumers. The intuitive power of screening for disease to prevent it is hard to counter, but the latest evidence, from government health groups such as the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) shows that the data don&#8217;t always support the idea that screening leads to better health. When factoring things such as the cost of screening and follow up tests to confirm false positive or false negative<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=71674&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways to Build Healthy Bones (and Keep Them Strong)</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/09/10-ways-to-build-healthy-bones-and-keep-them-strong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa LaValle Overmyer | Greatist.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bones are quite literally the support system of the body, so it’s super important to keep them strong and healthy. Bones are continuously being broken down and rebuilt in tiny amounts. Before about age 30, when bones typically reach peak bone mass (which varies from person to person), the body is creating new bone faster, but after age 30, the bone building balance naturally shifts and more bone is lost than gained. Some people have a lot of savings in their &#8220;bone bank&#8221; because of factors including genetics, diet and how much bone they built up as teenagers. The natural depletion of bone doesn’t affect these lucky ducks too drastically. But in those with a smaller bone fortune, when the body can’t create new bone as fast as the old bone is lost, osteoporosis can set in, causing bones to become weak and brittle and allowing them to fracture more easily. The disease is most common in postmenopausal women over the age of 65 and in men over the age of 70. Although all this talk of menopause and older age makes the threat of osteoporosis seem like a long way off, know that once it sets in, it’s extremely hard to reverse. Since there’s no way of being 100% positive you’ll develop osteoporosis, the best way to counteract it is to take steps earlier in life to beef up bone mass (and prevent its loss) as much as possible. Unfortunately, some are more likely than others to develop osteoporosis and weak bones in general (namely white and Asian postmenopausal women). Also unfortunately, it’s awfully difficult to change your race, gender or menopausal status. But never fear — there are some things that can be changed to bump up bone mass. Here are 10 tips to make deposits in your bone bank for a healthier future. 1. Know your family history. As with many medical conditions, family history is a key indicator of bone health. Those with a parent or sibling who has or had osteoporosis are more likely to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=70978&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to Avoid a Cold? Skip the Vitamin D Supplements</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/03/trying-to-avoid-a-cold-skip-the-vitamin-d-supplements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zinc, vitamin C, vitamin D, old-fashioned chicken soup. Chances are you’ve probably tried all of these remedies to ward off symptoms of a cold, but scientists now say that you can cross at least one of them off your list. In the most rigorous study to date investigating whether vitamin D can protect against colds, researchers found that healthy adults who took large doses of the supplement were no less likely to come down with upper respiratory infections — including colds, flu and sinus infections — than those taking placebo. The new study, led by Dr. David Murdoch and his colleagues at the University of Otago in New Zealand, followed 322 healthy participants who were randomly assigned to take either vitamin D or a placebo on a monthly basis for 18 months. All participants came to the research facility so that scientists could observe them taking the pills, but neither the volunteers nor the scientists knew which pills contained the vitamin and which were placebo. Those getting vitamin D supplements received 200,000 IU for each of the first two months, and then 100,000 IU monthly for the remainder of the trial. That amounts to more than 3,000 IU a day, when health officials currently recommend that most adults get about 600 IU of vitamin D daily (primarily to maintain bone health and avoid the bone-weakening disease of osteoporosis). By the end of the study, participants in the vitamin D group had developed a cold or flu an average 3.7 times, compared with 3.8 times in the placebo group. Taking vitamin D also had no impact on the severity or duration of people&#8217;s symptoms nor did it reduce the number of workdays they missed. (MORE: Megadoses of Vitamin D Offer No Benefit) Scientists started looking at vitamin D for cold prevention after early studies showed that tuberculosis patients who had genes that efficiently metabolized vitamin D were less prone to serious lung infections. There was also the intriguing observation that people who lived in sunnier climates — and therefore presumably had<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=70632&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the U.N., a Vow to Eradicate Polio by 2015</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/27/polio-u-n-firepower-against-an-ancient-scourge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Salk and Aseefa Zardari never met before today, but they have an odd and very significant thing in common: both of them were inoculated against polio by one of their parents. In the case of Salk, of course, it was his father Jonas, who administered his just-developed vaccine to himself, his lab workers and his family even before it was formally approved and released. Aseefa&#8217;s inoculator was her mother, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in 2007. &#8220;I have a picture of my wife immunizing our daughter 18 years ago,&#8221; said Asif Zardari, the current President and Aseefa&#8217;s father, at a United Nations gathering this afternoon. &#8220;My martyred wife told the world she dreamt of a world in which all children are free of disease.&#8221; Father, daughter and Salk had come to the U.N. as part of a new international push to eradicate polio once and for all, and they were hardly alone. Also in attendance were U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan; Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; and — significantly — Bill Gates, head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. All of them and others addressed a plenary session of the U.N.&#8217;s Economic and Social Council, and all of them had a single promise: by 2015, if not earlier, polio would join smallpox as the only diseases in human history to be finally and fully snuffed out in the wild. (MORE: Polio&#8217;s Back. Why Now?) There was an odd-seeming disconnect between the financial and institutional firepower assembled today and the actual, lingering incidence of polio. In 1952, three years before the Salk vaccine was introduced, 52,000 children were paralyzed or killed in the U.S. alone. In 1988, polio was endemic in more than 120 countries, still afflicting an average of 350,000 people — mostly children — per year. Today, the disease is endemic in just three countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria — and only in isolated pockets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=70307&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Big Soda: New York Becomes First City to Ban Large-Sized Soft Drinks</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/13/goodbye-big-soda-new-york-becomes-first-city-to-ban-large-sized-soft-drinks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday the New York City Health Department became the first in the nation to ban the sale of sugared beverages larger than 16 oz. at restaurants, mobile food carts, sports arenas and movie theaters. It’s a bold experiment in the anti-obesity campaign, and while it&#8217;s widely supported by health professionals, it’s not popular with food retailers or most city residents. The ban would prevent retailers who sell prepared food from also dispensing sugared beverages, including sodas and sweetened tea, in cups or containers larger than 16 oz. That&#8217;s smaller than your standard single-serve soda (typically 20 oz.), which you&#8217;ll no longer find at fast-food restaurants or cafeterias. Grocery stores and convenience stores, including 7-Eleven, which sells the jumbo-sized Big Gulp, would be exempt from the law, however. And the ban would not apply to fruit juices, alcoholic beverages, diet sodas or dairy-based drinks like milkshakes. The ban on large drinks was championed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has a reputation for taking aggressive steps to improve city residents&#8217; health. Often criticized for creating a nanny state, Bloomberg has been at the forefront of finding innovative, if controversial ways of nudging people to make healthier choices. Since he took office more than a decade ago, New York has become the first city to require chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus (the move prompted a federal law that compelled all fast food retailers in the nation to do the same) and to ban trans fats from restaurant foods. Bloomberg also banned public smoking from most corners of the city and more recently pushed hospitals to keep baby formula locked up in order to encourage breast-feeding in new moms. (MORE: The New York City Soda Ban, and a Brief History of Bloomberg&#8217;s Nudges) With at least two-thirds of American adults now considered overweight or obese — including more than half of New York City adults and nearly 40% of the city&#8217;s public elementary and middle school students — fighting obesity is one of the mayor&#8217;s signature<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68899&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Avoid Computer Eye Strain</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/13/computer-eye-strain-explained-and-how-to-avoid-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Newcomer | Greatist.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever spent more than two consecutive hours looking at a computer screen? Us too. Here's how you can avoid the strain and fatigue of computer vision syndrome<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68818&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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