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Health Highlights: Jan. 2, 2006 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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Scientists belonging to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Australia in their book, 'The Total Wellbeing Diet', say that consuming protein in large quantities can help people shed weight.
Area drugmaker reports business in good health (Tennessean)
Other companies court Cumberland after success of pain-reliever poisoning antidote.
Long Island Personal Chef Service ? Home Cooking Consultant ? Provides Alternative to Home Meal Delivery (PR Web)
Many individuals who have tried home meal delivery and are not satisfied with that type of service may be interested to know that Home Cooking Consultant Personal Chef Service may be the answer to their desire for healthy, nutritious, home-cooked meals. Busy Long Island professionals and other individuals looking to lose weight or control their diets are provided truly personalized meal plans
More choosing the alternative health path (Sydney Morning Herald)
USE of vitamins and herbal medicines has hit an all-time high, with middle-aged women identified as the biggest users of these and other forms of alternative medicine. -
Official Says West China Sees Increasing Public Health Emergencies (RedNova)
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Nanning, 2 January: A local health official has called for a sound mechanism to deal with public health emergencies in western China, saying the western region is witnessing growing number of such cases due to the poor medical infrastructure in the vast rural areas.
Alternative view of the Point; what it was like for women (The Daily Record)
Karen Olson calls herself a peeping Tom with credentials. The Dundalk Community College professor likes history but prefers to study the social side of the past.
Health Customs Migrate To U.S. (CBS News)
Members of Mexico's 60 Indian groups working in the U.S. are often isolated from the American health care system. There is now a larger effort to preserve their health care customs that predate the Spanish conquest.
Immigrants from Mexico's indigenous groups work to preserve traditional health care customs (Billings Gazette)
MADERA, Calif. - A thick tangle of marigolds reaches chest-high around Caritina Cruz, who plucks one of the deep orange flowers and explains to her little sister how to prepare it in a tea that soothes indigestion.
Iran's HIV cases top 12,000: Health Ministry (IranMania.com)
LONDON, January 3 (IranMania) - Some 12,556 people in Iran are infected with the HIV virus, 631 of whom have already developed AIDS, according to the health ministry's latest figures reported by the student news agency ISNA.