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Reuters - Expensive advertising of
prescription drugs directly to consumers may do little to
encourage sales, U.S. and Canadian researchers reported on
Monday.

AP - Children born to older fathers face a greater chance of developing bipolar disorder, according to one of the largest studies linking mental illness with advanced paternal age.

Reuters - Children born to fathers older than 30
are more likely to develop bipolar disorder, a common condition
sometimes known as manic depression, researchers reported on
Monday.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) — Children love playing video
games, and playing active versions of these games may help stop children
from becoming obese, University of Hong Kong researchers report.

AP - Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn’t leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine.

Reuters - Giving school children very
high doses of vitamin D is safe, and may be necessary to bring
their blood levels of the nutrient up to the amount necessary
for optimum bone growth and health, a new study shows.

Reuters - Babies who are heavy at birth
– weighing more than 4000 grams (8.8 pounds) — may have an
increased risk for two of the most common types of brain tumors
among children, German researchers report.

AP - Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.

AP - Tips to avoid medication errors, including mix-ups of drugs whose names look or sound alike:

Reuters - African health workers need more
training and better tools to circumcise men and boys safely for
HIV prevention, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO)
study chronicling “shocking” rates of complications.

AFP - Schoolgirls in Scotland became the first in the country to get a jab against cervical cancer on Monday.

AP - For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have?

(NaturalNews) Eighty percent of all surgical-site infections that occur after face lifts are caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers from the Lennox Hill-Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant form of the common “staph” infection, has already become […]

(NaturalNews) The introduction of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the seventies coincided with a marked rise in obesity in the U.S., leading to speculations that there might be a causal connection between HFCS consumption and weight gain (1). This seemed all the more plausible since HFCS consumption grew much faster than any other food […]

(NaturalNews) Admitted to a hospital for a routine staph infection treatment, the newborn twins of movie star Dennis Quaid were almost killed when hospital workers gave them two massive overdoses of a blood-thinning drug.
In addition to antibiotics, Quaid’s children were supposed to be given the blood thinning medication Hep-lock, in order to prevent blood clots […]