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  WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A new test that measures how much oxygen is ...

• Coping With the Holiday Blues

  TUESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- With the holidays just about here, so, too, are ...

• Surgery Only Slightly Better for Herniated Disc

  TUESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Is surgery for sciatica resulting from herniated discs worth ...

• Tonsillectomy May Prevent Recurrent Strep Throat in Kids

  TUESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Intact tonsils can increase the risk of recurrent strep ...

• One Dose of Antibiotics Prevents Post-Surgery Infection

  MONDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) --A single dose of antibiotics before surgery seems to prevent ...

• Occupational Therapy Helps Those With Dementia

  THURSDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Occupational therapy -- training to do simple things around ...

• Animal-Tissue Heart Valves Appear Safe

  THURSDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Young patients who receive replacement heart valves made from ...

• Drug-Coated Stents Can Keep Leg Arteries Clear

  WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Drug-coated stents, the tiny mesh tubes that surgeons use ...

• Angioplasty Won't Always Cut Risk for Second Heart Attack

  TUESDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Opening a patient's arteries with angioplasty plus a stent ...

• Smoking Linked to Cognitive Decline in Heart Patients

  SUNDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Three weeks after she underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, ...

• Key Steps Speed Heart Attack Care

  MONDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Anyone who has had a heart attack understands how ...

• Drug-Coated Angioplasty Balloons Keep Arteries From Reclosing

  MONDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Coating angioplasty balloons with a drug also used to ...

• Doctors Debate the Merits of Drug-Coated Stents

  MONDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The question isn't so much whether to use stents ...

• Smoking Worsens Prostate Cancer Therapy Side Effects

  MONDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Prostate cancer patients who smoke suffer worse acute gastrointestinal ...

• Virtual colonoscopy: More comfort, higher costs

  Nov 06 (HealthCentersOnline) - Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center note that a ...

• Stroke Rehab Technique Improves Arm, Hand Function

  TUESDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- An intensified type of "forced-use" therapy for stroke patients, ...

• Obese Women Face Greater Risk for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

  FRIDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight and obese women are five times more likely ...

• Colon Cancer Screening Is Saving Lives

  THURSDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Increased use of colonoscopy and other screening seems to ...

• Gene Could Point to Crohn's, Colitis Treatments

  THURSDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A newly discovered gene may help protect carriers against ...