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The financial crisis that began to hit Europe in mid-2008 reversed a steady, years-long fall in suicides among people of working age, according to a letter published on Friday by The Lancet. http://phys.org/news229322605.html Medicine & Health - Health Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:43:39 EST news229322605 A groundbreaking deal on compulsory new food labels Wednesday is set to give Europeans clear information on the nutritional and energy content of products, as well as country of origin. http://phys.org/news229181205.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:26:54 EST news229181205 Australia introduced world-first plain packaging laws for cigarettes into parliament Wednesday, vowing not to bow to big tobacco's "intimidation tactics" and legal threats. http://phys.org/news229142016.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:10:01 EST news229142016 A second global tobacco giant has flagged legal action over Australia's plain packaging plan for cigarettes, warning of violations of its intellectual property rights, a report said Saturday. http://phys.org/news228821369.html Medicine & Health - Health Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:00:01 EST news228821369 (AP) -- At least 17 infants have died in the last 48 hours at a government-run hospital in eastern India and the state is investigating, media reported Thursday. http://phys.org/news228652109.html Medicine & Health - Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:28:38 EST news228652109 (AP) -- Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories would pay sharply different amounts for private health insurance due to what appears to be an unintended consequence of the new health care law. http://phys.org/news228627957.html Medicine & Health - Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:46:14 EST news228627957 A US federal appeals court in Ohio upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's controversial health care law Wednesday in the first rejection of several challenges at the appeals court level. http://phys.org/news228574798.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:00:48 EST news228574798 (AP) -- At least 116 million U.S. adults experience long-lasting pain - the kind that lingers for weeks to months - and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news228572037.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:14:22 EST news228572037 (AP) -- Clean. Cook. Chill. Separate. That's the message of a new U.S. government campaign to raise awareness of safe food handling in the wake of a European E. coli outbreak that has killed almost 50 people. http://phys.org/news228465809.html Medicine & Health - Health Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:43:39 EST news228465809 Can a blog by an overweight, depressed American introvert who reinvented himself as an Ironman and public speaker start a grassroots campaign that leads to lasting lifestyle changes in a country known for excess? http://phys.org/news228450753.html Medicine & Health - Health Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:32:55 EST news228450753 (AP) -- If a proposed law passes, California teens under 18 will need a fake ID to "fake and bake" themselves to a golden brown. http://phys.org/news228411148.html Medicine & Health - Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:32:56 EST news228411148 Helen DeSanctis was born in Paterson, N.J., the same year silk workers struck at more than 100 mills, Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole and William Howard Taft served as president of the United States. Her predicted life expectancy at birth: 53 years. http://phys.org/news228364983.html Medicine & Health - Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:43:24 EST news228364983 (AP) -- Tobacco giant Philip Morris launched legal action on Monday against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip company logos from cigarette packages and replace them with grisly images of cancerous mouths, sickly children and bulging, blinded eyes. http://phys.org/news228364469.html Medicine & Health - Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:34:39 EST news228364469 (AP) -- A nationwide debate about circumcisions for newborn boys, combined with cash-strapped public health budgets, has Colorado taking sides with 17 other states that no longer fund Medicaid coverage of the once widely accepted procedure. http://phys.org/news228109829.html Medicine & Health - Health Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:50:43 EST news228109829 Alzheimer's disease could cause a global cash crunch in coming generations -- as people begin to regularly live to 100 -- and must be considered a serious fiscal danger, experts said Thursday. http://phys.org/news228072158.html Medicine & Health - Health Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:23:44 EST news228072158 (AP) -- A food pyramid just for the under-2 set? Contrary to popular belief, children don't usually outgrow their baby fat - and a new report urges steps to help prevent babies, toddlers and preschoolers from getting too pudgy too soon. http://phys.org/news228062587.html Medicine & Health - Health Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:43:46 EST news228062587 If the question was misunderstood by the waiter in a Bucharest restaurant, the irony wasn't lost on the customer who cringed after asking, "Do you have a smoke-free area?" http://phys.org/news228020899.html Medicine & Health - Health Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:08:31 EST news228020899 Last year, Kerri Campbell made a decision: She would no longer sit at her desk eight hours a day. Today, the retail broker for Daymon Worldwide in Pleasanton, Calif., stands on a couple of black pads, each about an inch think. Her keyboard is on a wooden stand built by her husband, and her monitor rests at eye level on a box, a hard drive dock and a ream of paper. http://phys.org/news227982852.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:44:48 EST news227982852 US regulators have approved a new type of therapy that uses a person's own skin cells to create an injectable cosmetic plumper to smooth out laugh lines, Fibrocell Science said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news227982105.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:22:01 EST news227982105 Germany's Green party filed a formal request in parliament Wednesday for the government to probe the level of potentially dangerous chemicals in sex toys. http://phys.org/news227965429.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:44:02 EST news227965429 Don't expect breast implants to last for life, the government warned Wednesday: About 1 in 5 women who receive them for cosmetic reasons will have them removed within 10 years, and those odds are even higher for cancer survivors. http://phys.org/news227961048.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:31:05 EST news227961048 (AP) -- You may think an image of rotting teeth and a mouth lesion are gross. But the U.S. government says it's just what you need to kick the habit. http://phys.org/news227956177.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:09:51 EST news227956177 (AP) -- A new study says one of the few benefits of global warming - fewer deaths from the combination of extreme heat and cold - may eventually melt away in Europe. http://phys.org/news227881706.html Medicine & Health - Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:28:46 EST news227881706 (AP) -- Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study. http://phys.org/news227875091.html Medicine & Health - Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:38:19 EST news227875091 (AP) -- Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck. http://phys.org/news227866971.html Medicine & Health - Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:23:11 EST news227866971 (AP) -- Food allergies affect about one in 13 U.S. children, double the latest government estimate, a new study suggests. http://phys.org/news227790084.html Medicine & Health - Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:01:36 EST news227790084 (AP) -- Medicare crises, looming doctor shortages, more patients without health insurance. And that doesn't even count the big changes coming from a revamped health care system. http://phys.org/news227531926.html Medicine & Health - Health Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:19:09 EST news227531926 A new study shows one in four high school students drink soda every day - a sign fewer teens are downing the sugary drinks. http://phys.org/news227463432.html Medicine & Health - Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:17:43 EST news227463432 You're sitting in a freshly drywalled house, drinking coffee from a Styrofoam cup and talking on a cellphone. Which of these is most likely to be a cancer risk? It might be the sitting, especially if you do that a lot. http://phys.org/news227369481.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:11:49 EST news227369481 (AP) -- As Europe's E. coli crisis wanes, some experts are now warning of a looming threat: possible long-term kidney complications for many of the victims. http://phys.org/news227360245.html Medicine & Health - Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:37:42 EST news227360245