Georgia Health News: State Health Budgets Bring Relief Usually at the midpoint of a Georgia General Assembly session, health care industry groups are scrambling to prevent deep cuts in the budgets of Medicaid and other government programs.

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(CNN) — In middle school, Taylor LeBaron struggled to fit into his seat. The desks in class had a ceramic plate attached to the chair.

“I was so large, I couldn’t fit in there,” said LeBaron, now 19. “Every other student could. I couldn’t get my legs to fit underneath the desk or my stomach to fit between the chair without getting the desk stuck with me.

“It was really embarrassing.

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The study, reported in the American Journal of Cardiology, followed more than 3,400 NFL players who were active between 1959 and 1988. It found that 334 had died by 2007 — only about half the rate that would be expected based on U.S. norms.

Of 498 defensive linemen, 41 died of cardiovascular causes.

And there’s the argument that a high BMI based on muscle is not so bad, Baron pointed out in an interview.

“But I think this makes it clear that if you’re big and muscular at a young age, it could have a long-term (health) effect,” Baron said.

The problem, she noted, is that once big athletes are no longer in the game, it’s very hard to keep up their former physical activity levels.

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Cadmium occurs naturally in some soils. Children are most likely to be exposed to it through food such as grains and root vegetables, as well as through tobacco smoke. Some children’s toys and jewelry have also been found to contain cadmium.

Cadmium exposure can damage the kidney and lungs and has been linked to cancer. Studies on whether or not it affects learning and behavior among children have had mixed results.

In the new study of close to 2,200 children ages 6 to 15, those who had the highest levels of cadmium in their urine were more likely to have learning disabilities or need special education, compared to children with the lowest levels of this metal in their urine.

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Launched today, the END7 campaign is dedicated to eliminating seven major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as a public health threat to poor communities by the end of 2020.

NTDs infect one in six people worldwide, including 500 million children, and carry a higher health burden than malaria and tuberculosis.

Among healthy postmenopausal women at increased risk of breast cancer, the aromatase inhibitor Aromasin® (exemestane) reduces the risk of breast cancer but also increases bone loss. These results were published in Lancet Oncology.

Drugs that block the effects of estrogen have been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk of the disease. Two drugs that have been approved for breast cancer risk reduction in certain groups of women are tamoxifen and Evista® (raloxifene). Tamoxifen is approved for breast cancer risk reduction in women who are at high risk of the disease (including high-risk premenopausal women). E

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But not all fish oil is created equal. 

Let’s first get something straight. 

1. All fish oils are NOT created equal.  

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He was diagnosed with the disease two-and-half years ago and has already undergone a bone marrow transplant. His younger brother, Jake, generously donated it to him.

That worked briefly, but the cancer returned in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. He now needs a donor outside the family to step forward.

In our original story, Dr. Victor Aquino called the need for another donor a “life or death matter.”

Doctors say the boy may not be able to survive another relapse, should symptoms return.

Well, each year the Yavneh Academy, an Orthodox Jewish high school in North Dallas, teams with Carter Bloodcare to host a blood drive. Thi

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Every club, coach and player is constantly on the lookout for the ultimate training methods, as they try to get the edge on their opponents.

Training is hugely important, which is why football players are punished if they step out of line. Take, for example, Man Utd’s Wayne Rooney, who got into trouble with his manager over Christmas. His lacklustre performance following a night out saw him dropped from the team and fined.

On the blue side of Manchester, City boss Roberto Mancini believes players need to be reminded that they have to work hard to achieve success. All players are the same, he says.

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Jessica Alba was that mom. And the company that she created?

The Honest Co.

Jessica wanted eco-friendly, convenient, affordable and beautiful products for her girls and for everyone else. I love that she was concerned with the environment, sustainability and making this world a better place. Were talking diapers, shampoo, conditioner, lotions, balms, soap, bubble bath, sanitizer, sunscreen and detergents she wanted honest products.

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NEW YORK — The digital age has left men’s nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections.

In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a few drops under a laptop connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi and then hit download.

Four hours later, the semen was, eh, well-done.

A quarter of the sperm were no longer swimming around, for instance, compared to just 14 percent from semen samples stored at the same temperature away from the computer.

And nine percent of the sperm showed DNA damage, three-fold more than the comparison samples.

The culprit?

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The study was preliminary and involved only six patients, and other promising early attempts to use gene therapy against hemophilia ultimately failed. But a single infusion using the new treatment worked in some patients for more than a year, boosting their clotting ability significantly.

“I think this is a terrific advance for the field. It’s a good lesson in terms of don’t give up on good ideas,” said Dr. Ronald Crystal, chairman of genetic medicine at New York City’s Weill Cornell Medical College,

It’s “truly a landmark study,” said Dr.

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