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EXTENDING AGE: LIVING LONGER, LIVING BETTER

Alcohol doesn’t just help against the biggest life-threatening ailments. There are scads of research to show that moderate drinking can ward off other common health problems-the kind that can make life pretty miserable sometimes. Here’s a catalog of the conditions you can raise a glass to. Beating the runs: Diarrhea may not be particularly life-threatening [...]


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PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT SCREENING

Are screening procedures likely to pick up the diseases that really matter? This is difficult to answer but an examination of the results of ten major industrial health examination programmes in the US found that less than half of the people who subsequently died from cancer had the condition diagnosed at a screening examination, and [...]


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