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Obama risks Catholic vote with birth-control mandate (Reuters) - Dr. Joe Casillas, an obstetrician in Southern California, routinely prescribes birth control for his patients. Though he's a practicing Catholic, he doesn't follow his church's stern warning that contraception is a sin. He ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:36:59 GMT Snack bars and junk food common in schools: study NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About half of all elementary school students can buy potato chips, ice cream or similar snacks in vending machines and at snack bars during school, suggests a new study. Researchers said they'd hoped that with more ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:34:43 GMT Avoid Window Seats to Cut Risk for In-Flight Blood Clots:
Study TUESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Potentially dangerous blood clots in the legs known as deep venous thromboses (DVTs) got the nickname "economy class syndrome" from widely publicized incidents involving passengers on long-haul flights.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:04:06 GMT Health Highlights: Feb. 7, 2012 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:04:06 GMT Rotavirus vaccine not linked to bowel problems NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study further eases fears that the rotavirus vaccine might increase the risk of blocked bowels in infants -- a concern that led to an earlier version of the vaccine being pulled from the market in the United State...
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Lupus News from Medical News Today
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Mutation Drives Viral Sensors To Initiate Autoimmune Disease A new study uses a mouse model of a human autoimmune disease to reveal how abnormal regulation of the intracellular sensors that detect invading viruses can lead to autoimmune pathology...
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST DNA Sequence Discovered That Causes The Most Severe Cases Of Lupus A "genetic accelerator" is responsible for the most severe cases of Lupus (systemic lupus erythemathosus), an autoimmune disease: the accelerator, called enhancer HS1.2, speeds up the activity of some critical genes of the immune system involved in the disease. A team of Italian researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome found that the enhancer HS1...
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST 32 Million Americans Have Autoantibodies That Target Their Own Tissues More than 32 million people in the United States have autoantibodies, which are proteins made by the immune system that target the body's tissues and define a condition known as autoimmunity, a study shows...