FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants all Americans born between 1945 and 1965 — the baby boom generation — tested for hepatitis C. Most cases of the potentially deadly disease occur in this age group, and most were infected in their teens and 20s and don’t [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — Personal genetic testing does not lead to an increased use of health services, a new study finds. The opportunities for people to undergo genetic tests to learn their degree of risk for developing a disease are increasing, and some experts fear this might lead to overuse of expensive medical [...]

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19 May 2012 Last updated at 05:20 ET Doctors are being balloted on the government’s pension proposals The prospect of high student debt and increased pension contributions could discourage young people from entering medicine, a doctor has warned. Tom Dolphin of the British Medical Association told the Junior Doctors Conference that students paying £9,000 tuition [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — A new test that can detect and predict osteoarthritis before patients experience symptoms was developed by analyzing the joints of dogs with arthritis. Osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, affects more than 27 million adults in the United States. Early detection of the disease, which causes pain and [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — One-third of homeless people in the United States are obese, about the same rate as the general population, a new study finds. It might seem that hunger and lack of food would put homeless people at risk for weighing too little, according to the researchers at Harvard Medical School [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — Female athletes take longer to recover from concussions, a new study says. Young athletes also have longer recovery times. The findings show that doctors and athletic trainers need to take gender and age into account when treating patients with concussions, said researchers from Michigan State University. The researchers studied [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — Older men have an increased risk of developing melanoma, but most are careless about sun protection and do not know how to properly check themselves for signs of skin cancer, a new survey reveals. This is particularly worrisome because nearly 132,000 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed in [...]

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By Timothy W. Martin U.S. health officials are proposing all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C, because they’re five times more likely than other adults to have the potentially fatal liver virus and many might not know they’re at risk. Of the more than 70 million baby boomers — those born from 1945 to [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — Inflammation caused by chronic heartburn may increase the risk of esophageal cancer, a new study finds. The condition — formally known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) — occurs when a muscle at the end of the esophagus doesn’t close properly, allowing stomach contents to leak back into the esophagus [...]

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FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — Women who eat a lot of “bad” saturated fat may hurt their overall brain function and memory over time, Harvard University researchers report. In contrast, eating more “good” monounsaturated fat improved brain function and memory, suggesting that fats may have the same effect on the brain as they do [...]

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