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Gout Is Now Equal Opportunity Pain Inflictor
Tuesday, August 01, 2006


“For most people, their image of someone with gout is a 19th century cartoon of an aristocratic older man, with his foot swaddled in bandages and up on a stool.

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Lifting the Veil on Male Hormone Problems
Tuesday, August 01, 2006


“Your golf score is getting worse. You don’t concentrate as well. You aren’t as strong and are losing height. You are grumpier. When symptoms like these appear in men, they are told (or believe) that such problems are just natural parts of aging. But these and other symptoms may actually be indications of low testosterone levels in men,” says John Morley, M.D. Morley, the director of the division of geriatric medicine at the University of Saint Louis in Missouri, is one of this country’s leading experts on testosterone deficiency in men.

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How to Avoid Emergency Room Visits
Tuesday, August 01, 2006


Did you hear the joke about the woman who went into an emergency room (ER) for a sore throat and ended up being admitted for malnutrition when they finally saw her after a fiveday wait?

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Use the New Food Pyramid
Tuesday, August 01, 2006


The federal government has implemented two nutritional guidelines designedto help the American diet. One is the new Nutrition Facts label, reported in the March issue of The Erickson Tribune. The other is the focus of this story, the revised U.S. Food Pyramid.

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Health 411-Dogs Trained in Cancer-Sniffing
Tuesday, August 01, 2006


Smell has often been a warning sign of illness; Hippocrates—the father of modern medicine—described the fruity odor of diabetes in the breath.

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