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Your Good Health: Itchiness can be caused by allergies, friction

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a woman, 52 years young, and my nipples are itchy. I would like to know what I can use to put a stop to the itching. Is this a sign of menopause? Can it be due to the dry weather? S.V.

Dr. Roach: Sometimes there鈥檚 no logical reason for heart palpitations

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a very scary situation. About six weeks ago, I was sent to a heart specialist because of a lot of heart palpitations.

Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein a recognizable face for unknown dementia

EDMONTON - Experts say Ralph Klein's struggle with a relatively unknown form of dementia called frontotemporal degeneration has brought some needed attention to the disease.
More than half a million young children have lead poisoning under revised standard

More than half a million young children have lead poisoning under revised standard

NEW YORK, N.Y. - More than half a million U.S. children are now believed to have lead poisoning, roughly twice the previous high estimate, health officials reported Thursday.
What will the new flu do? Health leaders lay out the clues they are looking for

What will the new flu do? Health leaders lay out the clues they are looking for

TORONTO - Three sick people. That's all it took to make scientists who study influenza edge-of-seat nervous this week over a rapidly evolving public health situation in China.

U.S. women now twice as likely to live with a guy before marriage

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Nearly half of young U.S. women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren't married. That's the finding of a government survey released Thursday.
It hasn't been easy for Steve Holub, but he鈥檚 hooked on fitness

It hasn't been easy for Steve Holub, but he鈥檚 hooked on fitness

As Steve Holub nears the end of the 12-week sa国际传媒 Health Challenge, he鈥檚 feeling pretty good. His clothes feel looser and his confidence and energy levels are way up.
With driftwood and rocks, shores provide variety of terrain and props for fitness routine

With driftwood and rocks, shores provide variety of terrain and props for fitness routine

Last week, we looked at the benefits of hiring a personal trainer to get in shape.
U.S. lab develops animal model for new coronavirus; needed to conduct studies

U.S. lab develops animal model for new coronavirus; needed to conduct studies

TORONTO - Scientists have announced they have developed an animal model for the new coronavirus, an important development in the study of the new disease agent. The work was done by researchers at the U.S.

Alzheimer's, other dementias, most costly malady in US; tops cancer, heart disease: study

Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.