Exercise a Good Pick-Me-Up After Cancer Treatment: Study HealthDay via Yahoo! News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise can improve the health, energy and well-being of cancer patients after they've completed their main cancer treatment, a new review finds. | Health Highlights: Feb. 1, 2012 HealthDay via Yahoo! News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: | Health Tip: Keep Heartburn Under Control HealthDay via Yahoo! News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST (HealthDay News) -- Heartburn is the most common symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which occurs when the acidic contents of the stomach back up into the esophagus. | Health Tip: Strained a Hamstring? HealthDay via Yahoo! News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST (HealthDay News) -- Athletes are particularly susceptible to strains or tears of the hamstring, one of three sets of muscles and tendons between the thigh and the knee. | Fresh concessions over NHS reforms Politics.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:02 AM PST The Department of Health has made a series of further concessions in a bid to rescue its embattled NHS reforms, but opponents appear unimpressed by the changes. | Child Abuse, Neglect a Major Public Health Problem: CDC HealthDay via Yahoo! News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Child abuse and neglect cost the United States $124 billion a year, which is comparable to the costs of other major public health problems, a new government study shows. | Capitol keeps eye on leptospirosis, dengue Sun Star Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:56 AM PST THE Iloilo Provincial Government warned the public against the rise of leptospirosis and dengue cases in the province. The number was noted in the monitoring of the Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (Pesu) of the Provincial Health Office (PHO). | Bird flu claims second victim this year in Vietnam Dawn Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:49 AM PST HANOI: A woman in southern Vietnam has died after contracting the bird flu virus, health authorities said Thursday, in the countryâs second human death from the virulent disease in less than a month. | | |
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