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Allergy Season Brings Trouble for Many -- (NUI) - Allergy season is here, and that spells trouble for millions of Americans. Allergy triggers, like oak, ash, alder, elm, poplar, sycamore, grasses, molds, mulberry, and ragweed, can cause anything from sneezing to watery eyes to fever.
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Asthma Triggers and How to Control Them -- (NUI) - Do you enjoy the outdoors? Do you love pets? What if you had to choose between these things and your ability to breathe? Unfortunately, for many asthma sufferers, that choice is one they make every day. Asthma affects millions of Americans, many of them children. Asthma is a serious condition that restricts airways and causes breathing difficulties which result in approximately 5,000 deaths annually.
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Fighting Diabetes Successfully Requires a Family Effort -- (NUI) - Family dinners, movie nights, road trips to visit relatives - these are all important family traditions. But, there is a new tradition that every family should make their own - checking their health. More than 17 million people living in the United States have diabetes. And according to a new U.S. government report, 33 percent of boys and 39 percent of girls born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. The report states that minority children face an even greater risk of developing the disease.
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Hypnotism Proves Helpful For Many Health Problems -- (NUI) - What if someone told you that you can lose weight, stop smoking, eliminate anxieties and maintain a better quality of life? It's not done with a new "wonder pill." Actually, these positive results can all be accomplished with the use of hypnotism, according to Dr. Dwight F. Damon, president of the National Guild of Hypnotists, the oldest organization of its kind in the field of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
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Three Simple Tips To Help You Beat Psoriasis -- (NUI) - Just imagine ... one day you notice a small patch of scaly skin on your stomach. Your doctor prescribes messy prescription creams. But the spots keep spreading to your neck, arms and legs. Despite the summer heat, you're so embarrassed you try to hide it by wearing turtlenecks and long dresses that stick to what are now blisters.
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Tips to Help You Lower Your Cholesterol -- (NUI) - More than 100 million Americans have high cholesterol. So, you probably know someone dealing with the condition, or you may have high cholesterol yourself.Almost anyone can have an unhealthy cholesterol level. In fact, one in five people have high cholesterol. It's a very common problem and, in many cases, it may be inherited. So even though having high cholesterol may not be your fault, it's still very important you treat it now.
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Study: Main Prostate Cancer Treatments Equally Effective -- (NUI) - Doctors hope that the findings in a recent study comparing the most common prostate cancer therapies will help men newly diagnosed with the disease to better evaluate their treatment options. The recent study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics showed that survival rates are nearly the same among prostate cancer patients treated with surgery, permanent seed implantation, high-dose external beam radiotherapy and combined seed/external beam radiotherapy. The outcomes were less favorable for patients treated with low-dose external beam radiotherapy.
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Survey Shows Confusion About Urinary Tract Infections -- (NUI) - Approximately 40 percent to 50 percent of women will experience a urinary tract infection, during their lifetime.
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Survey Finds Many Americans Misunderstand Mental Illness -- (NUI) - Do you know someone with a mental illness? You probably do. One in five Americans experiences a mental illness each year. Mental illness knows no age limits, economic status, race, creed or color. But many people with mental health needs do not receive the care, support or respect they deserve.
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