Music and Alzheimer's: Can it help?
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- Written by Jonathan Graff-Radford, M.D
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Rochester, Minnesota - Research suggests that listening to or singing music can provide emotional and behavioral benefits for people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Musical memories are often preserved in Alzheimer's disease because key brain areas linked to musical memory are relatively undamaged by the disease.
The Time of Year for Costumes, Sweets, Tricks and Treats
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- Written by Dana Sparks
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Imperial, California - Put Halloween safety first with these common-sense tips.
Diet soda: Is it bad for you?
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- Written by Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.
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Scottsdale, Arizona - Drinking a reasonable amount of diet soda a day, such as a can or two, isn't likely to hurt you. The artificial sweeteners and other chemicals currently used in diet soda are safe for most people, and there's no credible evidence that these ingredients cause cancer.
CDPH Study Shows Prenatal Vaccination Decreases Severe Illness and Death in Pediatric Pertussis Cases
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Sacramento, California - California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced the results of a CDPH study that shows additional benefits of prenatal pertussis vaccination. Vaccination of pregnant women against pertussis (whooping cough) has been found to prevent whooping cough in their infants, however no vaccine is 100 percent effective and some infants of vaccinated women develop pertussis.
Belly fat in men: Why weight loss matters
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- Written by Mayo Clinic Staff
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Rochester, Minnesota - If you're carrying a few extra pounds, you're not alone. But this is one case where following the crowd isn't a good idea. Carrying extra weight - especially belly fat - can be risky.
CDC releases combined summary of notifiable infectious, noninfectious diseases
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Washington, DC - Beginning with today's, Supplements to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC will publish the summaries of all notifiable conditions – infectious and noninfectious – at the same time. Together, these two reports provide official statistics for all nationally notifiable conditions in the same MMWR volume.
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