23 Oct Curbing the Enthusiasm on Daily Multivitamins

Carl Wiens Can you reduce your risk of cancer by taking a multivitamin every day? Last week, Boston researchers announced that one of the largest long-term clinical trials of multivitamins in the United States — encompassing 14,000 male physicians 50 and older, and lasting over a decade — found that taking a common combination of essential vitamins and minerals every day decreased the incidence of cancer by 8 percent, compared with a placebo pill. Men...

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23 Oct The Hunt for an Affordable Hearing Aid

Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times The crackling noises coming from my left ear weren’t a good sign. Last year, when my decade-old analog hearing aid started making popping sounds, I knew I had to replace it. But because hearing aids are so costly and generally aren’t covered by insurance, I had put it off. I soon learned that in the last 10 years, purchasing a hearing aid had become even more difficult and confusing than buying a new car — and...

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23 Oct Thinking Twice About Health Checkups

In an analysis of studies including more than 180,000 subjects, researchers have found that general health checkups — like annual physicals or other visits to the doctor by asymptomatic people — are ineffective and possibly harmful. The investigators found no evidence that an annual physical will prevent death by cancer, cardiovascular disease or any other cause. Nor did they find any effect on hospital admissions, disability, additional visits...

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19 Oct Are Doctors Too Wary of Drug Companies?

Not long ago, I asked a colleague for advice on a patient. He offered up a couple of treatment options, then stopped to show me a new medical app on his electronic tablet. With a few swipes of his finger, he summoned a compilation of research articles, synopses and even entire textbooks that, printed and bound, would have filled shelves in a library. Dr. Pauline Chen on medical care. “But do you know what the best part is?” he asked with a twinkle...

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17 Oct Cholesterol Is Falling in Adults, Study Finds

Cholesterol levels in adults are falling, and changes in the amount of trans fats in the American diet may be part of the reason, new research suggests. The findings, published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, were celebrated as something of a triumph by health authorities, who said the data showed that the nation had reached its 2010 goal of getting the average total cholesterol level in adults below 200 milligrams...

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13 Oct Are You Likely to Respond to Exercise?

Kristian Sekulic/Getty Images Research has confirmed that people’s physiological responses to exercise vary wildly. Now a new genetic test promises to tell you whether you are likely to benefit aerobically from exercise. The science behind the test is promising, but is this information any of us really needs to know? Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. The new test, which is being sold by a British company called XRGenomics, is available...

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12 Oct Do Exercise Programs Help Children Stay Fit?

Thor Swift Getting children to be more physically active seems as if it should be so simple. Just enroll them in classes and programs during school or afterward that are filled with games, sports and other activities. But an important new review of the outcomes of a wide range of different physical activity interventions for young people finds that the programs almost never increase overall daily physical activity. The youngsters run around during...

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12 Oct Feeling the Pressure to Drink for Work

Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times COLD SHOULDER: Terry Lavin sipping seltzer water at the Pig ‘n’ Whistle in Manhattan. As an ad-sales executive with Forbes magazine, Terry Lavin worked hard to earn his reputation as a dependable drinking buddy. “I just basically rented space at P. J. Clarke’s,” he said, referring to the Midtown Manhattan watering hole. “I was always the last to leave, always had a cocktail in my hand.” In a business built...

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11 Oct Living With Cancer: We Are Seven

It is our luck that we are seven women grappling with various stages and types of gynecological cancer in a small group that no one in his or her right mind would want to join. Susan Gubar writes about life with ovarian cancer. We live in a town that boasts no program or facility to bring us together. Our group happened to happen. Patricia and Mary introduced themselves after a presentation I gave with my oncologist, who is also their doctor. Alison...

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10 Oct When Doctors Stop Taking Insurance

Private health insurance used to be the ticket to a doctor’s appointment. But that’s no longer the case in some affluent metropolitan enclaves, where many physicians no longer accept insurance and require upfront payment from patients — cash, checks and credit cards accepted. On Manhattan’s Upper East Side, it’s not unusual for a pregnant woman to pay $13,000 out of pocket in advance for childbirth and prenatal care to a physician who does...

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9 Oct NetZero gives subscribers free data to share through Facebook, doles out friendship 1GB at a time

NETZERO 4G MOBILE BROADBAND GIVES AWAY FREE WIRELESS DATA TO PARTICIPATING FACEBOOK® MEMBERS NetZero 4G Data Share Program Gives Each Participant One Gigabyte of Free Wireless Data To Give Away To Friends Via New Facebook App Woodland Hills, Calif. – October 9, 2012 – NetZero Wireless, Inc., a subsidiary of United Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTD), today announced the launch of the NetZero 4G Data Share program. Through this new program, any of Facebook's®...

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9 Oct AMD enters Windows 8 tablet fray with Z-60 chip: 'all-day' battery life, graphics 'you would never expect'

New AMD Z-Series APU for Tablets Enables Immersive Experience for Upcoming Microsoft Windows 8 Platforms -Uncompromised Performance and Amazing AMD Radeon Graphics Set the Bar for Highly Portable and Tablet Form Factors - SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Oct. 9, 2012- AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced its latest entry in the performance tablet and small form factor PC market with the AMD Z-60 Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). The AMD Z-60 is AMD's lowest power APU,...

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