The Checkup Archive: Chronic Conditions
H1N1 vaccine: One big confusing mess
There are plenty of reasons to get upset about the H1N1 influenza situation. Over-optimistic projections of vaccine supply have given way to acknowledgements that by the time the vaccine is widely available, this wave of H1N1 infection may well be over. There have been scary reports about otherwise-healthy kids and...
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
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November 9, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Family Health
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Influenza
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Neurological disorders
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Vaccinations
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Virus Associated With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Scientists have found evidence that a virus may play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome. Vincent C. Lombardi of the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nev., and scientists elsewhere studied 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, a baffling, debilitating and controversial condition that affects an estimated 17 million people worldwide....
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Rob Stein
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October 8, 2009; 2:00 PM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Disabilities
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Women's Health
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Gene Therapy For Colorblindness?
Scientists say they have used gene therapy to enable colorblind monkeys to see red and green, possibly opening the door to curing colorblindness in people. Jay Neitz of the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues injected gene-carrying viruses into the retinas of two male squirrel monkeys, which are...
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Rob Stein
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September 17, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Disabilities
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Family Health
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General Health
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Lupus News
No, that's not a typo: There actually has been a flurry of news surrounding lupus lately. If that's surprising, it's because it's been half a century since a new treatment for lupus, an autoimmune disease that can affect various organs, has been developed and approved. Since then the disease, whose...
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
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September 14, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Going Gluten-Free
Having an autoimmune disease that makes your body unable to digest certain common foods is not anyone's idea of a good time. But as I note in this week's "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" column, being diagnosed with celiac disease often comes as a relief to people who have suffered...
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
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September 1, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Nutrition and Fitness
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CDC: Childhood Obesity Epidemic Slowing
The epidemic of obesity among American children appears to be slowing, federal health officials are reporting today. An analysis of data collected nationally about low-income preschool-aged children ages two to four years old found the prevalence of obesity increased from 12.4 percent in 1998 to 14.5 percent in 2003, but...
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Rob Stein
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July 23, 2009; 12:02 PM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Family Health
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General Health
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Health Policy
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Obesity
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