Today in Research: Caffeine Alters Estrogen Levels; Rap in Medicine

But that wouldn’t be fair to you people who care about health. Looking at women ages 18 to 44, researchers found the drug changed estrogen levels, lowering them for white women and raising them in Asian and black women. The good news: “for women of …

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Confused About Which carbohydrates to Eat?

“It’s the biggest lack-of-consensus issue in the US diet today,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. “We don’t have a standard method for assessing their quality.

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Child Safety Takes a Back Seat During Carpooling

By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Explain that parents who generally have their children use booster seats in the car are …

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Obese Doctors, Blood Pressure Checks and a Chatty Machine

Today’s talker: If your doctor or your friends won’t tell you about your weight problems, maybe a chatty new vending machine will. A fake snack machine traveling around Utah schools dispenses healthy quips instead of candy and chips.

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Study: No Link Between HPV Vaccine and Autoimmune Disorders

In the study, which was funded by Gardasil’s maker, Merck & Co., researchers analyzed the health records of almost 190000 females aged 9 to 26 in California who were followed for six months after receiving each dose of Gardasil in 2006-2008.