Access to healthy foods worse in poor areas

By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who live in poorer neighborhoods in the U.S. are less likely to have easy access to supermarkets carrying a wide variety of fresh produce and other healthy food, an analysis of 54 studies confirms.
But they probably have plenty of unhealthy fast food joints to choose from, Dr. [...]

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British gym replaces dumbbells with human weights

LONDON (Reuters) - A British gym is trying to add human interest to otherwise dreary workouts by replacing traditional dumbbell weights with human ones.
The Gymbox chain gym in central London says fitness enthusiasts can now swap their usual lumps of metal for human beings in a range of shapes and sizes.
According to the gym’s owner [...]

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Family stress may make kids fat: study

By Joene Hendry
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living in a stressful household may raise a child’s risk of becoming obese, according to findings from a study of Swedish families.
Compared with 5- to 6-year-old children living in families with low stress levels, age-matched children from “high-stress” families had about twice the risk for obesity, the study [...]

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COPD raises risk of depression: study

By Megan Rauscher
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with the chronic breathing disorder COPD appear to have a significantly higher risk of becoming clinically depressed than healthy individuals and patients with another common chronic condition - diabetes.
“The relationship between depression and COPD was described before, but what this study adds is that we found a [...]

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Menthol cigarettes may be tougher for some to quit

By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Menthol cigarettes may be harder to quit than the standard variety, particularly for lower-income smokers, a new study suggests.
The findings add to evidence that mentholated cigarettes may be especially addictive, but highlight a role for socioeconomics as well, researchers say.
They found that black and Hispanic smokers who favored [...]

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WHO gets Gates grant for child medicines research

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had received a $9.7 million grant from the U.S.-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research into the production and dosage of medicines for children.
The research, aimed at increasing the low number of “child size” medicines available around the world and especially in [...]

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Needles, not technique, may be acupuncture key

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Acupuncture prevents headaches and migraines but faked treatments when needles are incorrectly inserted appear to work nearly as well, German researchers said on Wednesday.
Their findings suggest the benefits of acupuncture may stem more from people’s belief in the technique, said Klaus Linde, a complementary medicine researcher at the Technical University in [...]

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China warns of “grim” fight against deadly bird flu

BEIJING (Reuters) - China faces a “grim” situation in preventing and controlling human cases of bird flu, the health minister said, after announcing four human infections in the last two weeks and three deaths.
Health Minister Chen Zhu called for hospitals to spare more resources in diagnosing and treating bird flu and more cooperation between agriculture [...]

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Supplements help prevent muscle wasting: study

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children in Niger who got a daily nutritional supplement for three months lost less weight and were less likely to have muscles eaten away by “wasting syndrome,” U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Wasting affects about 10 percent of the children in the world under age five and can make them vulnerable to disease.
Researchers [...]

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Lexapro may ease anxiety in older adults: study

By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The popular antidepressant Lexapro showed promise at easing anxiety symptoms in older adults, but the effect was “modest” and would need to be studied further, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
They said antidepressants like Lexapro, made by Forest Laboratories Inc and known generically as escitalopram, may be useful as a new [...]

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