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• Antidepressants May Change Your Personality

  HealthDay – Mon Dec 7, 11:49 pm ET Sent 8 times

  MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Taking antidepressants may not only help alleviate depression, but could make you more extraverted and less neurotic, new research suggests. Full Story »

• Starting some solid foods late boosts allergy risk

  Reuters – Tue Dec 8, 5:28 pm ET Sent 8 times

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Holding off on introducing certain foods in order to prevent children from becoming allergic to them may be counterproductive. Full Story »

• Selenium, Omega-3s May Stave Off Colorectal Cancer

  HealthDay – Tue Dec 8, 7:05 pm ET Sent 8 times

  TUESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Certain dietary supplements appear to affect the development of colorectal cancer or its recurrence, two new studies suggest. Full Story »

• Ancient HIV stowaway may hold clue to transmission

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 11:21 am ET Sent 7 times

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An HIV genetic stowaway that may have come from a related cat virus could help the AIDS virus transmit and replicate in people, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday. Full Story »

• Washed-out Fla. road gives hikers a beach paradise

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 12:35 pm ET Sent 6 times
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  GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL SEASHORE, Fla. - It's a 70-degree fall weekday, and I'm sitting on a powdery white beach lapped by gentle turquoise waves as I eat a pear and "work" on my travel story about Gulf Islands National Seashore. Full Story »

• One in Four Teen Girls Have STDs

  HealthDay – Mon Nov 23, 11:48 pm ET Sent 6 times

  MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- As many as one in four U.S. teenage girls have had a sexually transmitted disease (STD), many infected soon after their first sexual encounter, a new government report shows. Full Story »

• Depression, peers top influences on youth violence

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 9:45 am ET Sent 5 times

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who are depressed and have delinquents for friends may be the most likely to lash out violently at others, according to a new study in The Journal of Pediatrics. Full Story »

• Diabetes Drugs Go Head-to-Head in Study

  HealthDay – Fri Dec 4, 11:49 pm ET Sent 4 times

  THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A class of drugs still taken by millions of people with type 2 diabetes is associated with a higher risk of dying and heart failure than the newer treatment metformin, researchers say. Full Story »

• When Parent Is Deployed, Kids Struggle

  HealthDay – Mon Dec 7, 11:49 pm ET Sent 4 times

  MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Children whose parents are deployed appear to have more emotional difficulties, stress, anxiety and problems within the family than their peers, a new study shows. Full Story »

• Monkeys Recognize Their Pals in Photos

  HealthDay – Fri Dec 4, 11:49 pm ET Sent 4 times

  FRIDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Monkeys can recognize photographs of other monkeys they know, proving that they can both detect differences in faces and figure out if they've seen them before, researchers report. Full Story »

• Temple of Parisian dining auctions off rare wines

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 4:41 pm ET Sent 4 times
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  PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The illustrious Paris restaurant La Tour d'Argent put up for sale on Monday 18,000 bottles from its vast cellars, offering wine lovers a chance to acquire treasures from one of the world's finest collections. Full Story »

• Keep Asthma, Allergies at Bay for the Holidays

  HealthDay – Sat Dec 5, 11:48 pm ET Sent 4 times

  SATURDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- They're not Scrooges, but people with allergies and asthma can have bad reactions to certain holiday traditions and need to take special steps to prevent sneezing and wheezing, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). Full Story »

• Swine Flu Can Batter Kids With Sickle Cell

  HealthDay – Mon Dec 7, 11:49 pm ET Sent 4 times

  MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Swine flu is more likely than seasonal flu to cause life-threatening complications in children with sickle cell disease, a new study has found. Full Story »

• Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It

  Time.com – Mon Nov 30, 10:00 am ET Sent 3 times

  Research suggests that exposure to certain stimuli during sleep may help people remember things they learned while they were awake Full Story »

• Child cancer survivors have higher heart risk-study

  Reuters – Tue Dec 8, 7:37 pm ET Sent 3 times

  LONDON (Reuters) - Children and young people who survive cancer have a significantly higher risk of developing heart disease as young adults because of the cancer treatment they received, researchers said Wednesday. Full Story »

• Hormonal Drugs Cool Hot Flashes From Prostate Cancer Therapy

  HealthDay – Mon Dec 7, 11:50 pm ET Sent 3 times

  SUNDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Hot flashes caused by androgen suppression therapy for prostate cancer are best controlled by the hormonal treatments cyproterone acetate and medroxyprogesterone acetate, according to a new study. Full Story »

• Stem Cells May Hold Hope for Eye Disease

  HealthDay – Tue Dec 8, 7:04 pm ET Sent 3 times

  TUESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- New research has found that a certain kind of stem cell from human umbilical cords helped restore transparency to the cloudy corneas of laboratory mice, raising the prospect that they could do the same for people. Full Story »

• FDA investigating more dangerous brain scans

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 4:18 pm ET Sent 3 times

  WASHINGTON - Federal health regulators are investigating reports of dangerous radiation levels at two more California hospitals, following earlier unsafe medical scans at a Los Angeles facility.