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Sex problems can signal more serious medical conditions

Doctors shouldn't shy away from asking patients about their sex lives, a new research paper advises.
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Heart disease often misdiagnosed in women

When Jean Horgan complained of heart palpitations, her doctor told her it was just nerves.
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Students begin living flu experiment

Can wearing a face mask and regularly cleaning hands stop the spread of deadly bird flu? Students at the University of Michigan started a living experiment this week to find out.
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Oils in shampoos, lotions tied to boys' breast growth

Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases, apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study suggests.
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	January 30

• FDA drug safety plan gets tepid response


	January 29

• Potential insomnia aid studied


	January 27

• Study: Traffic pollution can stunt kids' lung development


	January 26

• Personal safety expert offers tips for kids
• Teens driven to distraction -- and death
• Your own clean-air act
• Mom with ALS finds way through long goodbye
• Test your baby-safety savvy
• Safety mistakes even good moms make
• Experts: Genes play bigger role than environment in anorexia
• Printable safety guides from Parenting magazine
• Study: Medium caffeine intake doesn't affect pregnancy
• Childproofing made easy: A room-by-room, stage-by-stage guide
• Europe's flu earlier, more virulent
• Car seat installation: Make sure your baby's safe
• Federal advisers endorse 5-in-1 childhood vaccine


	January 25

• Hormones safer for younger women, experts advise
• Damage to spot in brain seems to erase smoking urge


	January 24

• Microwave experiments cause sponge disasters
• Norovirus sickens hundreds aboard QE2
• Advisers oppose failure limits for the pill
• LA hospital faulted for neonatal ICU bacteria outbreak
• Brinker took on breast cancer, created a movement
• Komen's breast cancer funding nears $1 billion


	January 23

• High school football players overweight, 1 in 10 obese
• Drug helps heart disease-related depression
• Soak up tea's nutritional benefits
• FDA considering new standards for birth control drugs
• Officials debate link between Ground Zero work, deaths
• New face transplant operation performed


	January 22

• Microwave zaps germs on sponges, study finds
• Antidepressants may raise fracture risk for those over 50
• Pancreatic cancer vaccine may help some patients
• Are you unselfish? Brain scan finds the truth
• Sense-sational: Celebrate and sharpen all your senses


	January 19

• Daydreaming is brain's default setting, study finds
• Should women be paid for eggs for stem cell research?
• Hilton near Dulles closes after norovirus outbreak
• Measles deaths down worldwide


	January 18

• Viagra may decrease ability to smell
• Hospital costs for birth defects estimated at $2.5 billion a year
• Staph infection causes quick and deadly pneumonia
• Genetic tests may bring hope, inspire fear
• Nicotine in U.S. cigarettes rising, Harvard study finds
• Sanitation 'greatest medical milestone since 1840'


	January 17

• Analysis: Napoleon died of stomach cancer, not arsenic
• Cancer found more often in dense breast tissue
• 1918 flu killed by turning the body against itself


	January 16

• Patients with drug-coated stents should take anti-clotting drugs
• Study: Drug delays cancer return after pancreas surgery
• Tiniest Katrina survivor finally born


	January 15

• Uterus transplants in early planning stages
• World's 1st 'test-tube' baby gives birth
• Bird flu will challenge to U.S. health system, expert predicts


	January 12

• Your e-mails: 'I am way past impatient'
• Officials: California lettuce possible Taco John's e. coli source
• Modern medical breakthroughs
• Prostate cancer treatment may shorten penis
• Women more likely to survive lung cancer
• Your e-mails: Fighting cancer and inaction


	January 11

• Survey: Many assume they can't control cancer risk
• Ethicist in Ashley case answers questions
• Put off reading this until tax time: Americans procrastinate
• Arthritis, related conditions cost U.S. $128 billion
• CDC warns against giving toddlers, babies cold medicine, cough syrup
• Disability community decries 'Ashley treatment'
• Cancer survivor: A Valentine's Day to forget
• Gene map unraveling tricks of trichomoniasis


	January 10

• Obesity operations jump in United States
• Tots are prime targets for colds and flu
• Drugs show promise against kidney cancer
• Risk of death high for new ex-cons
• Chronic headache raises depression risk in women
• U.S. Cancer Centers
• Perimenopause: Hormone ups and downs can last years
• Lance Armstrong: Patience running thin with D.C.
• Sheryl Crow: Cancer changed my music
• Deaths as bird flu flares in Asia
• Worries grow as bird flu flares up


	January 9

• China reports human bird flu case
• 10 tips to cut cancer risk
• Why we're losing the war on cancer [and how to win it]
• Why we're losing the war on cancer [and how to win it]
• Why we're losing the war on cancer [and how to win it]
• Post-traumatic stress may alter pain sensitivity
• Infant outcomes worse with planned C-section
• Womb transplants may one day be a reality
• Lottery offers facelifts as prizes
• Study: Milk dilutes benefits of tea


	January 8

• R.I. students return as health scare abates
• Folate may reduce Alzheimer's risk, study finds
• Heart Association launches online nutrition tracker
• Stem cell researchers hopeful, cautious over 'giant step foward'

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