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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — A well-publicized report suggesting iPods may interfere with cardiac pacemakers is being debunked by a new study.

The report stemmed from the case of one man who became dizzy after listening to his iPod. When cardiologists tested the iPod during the man’s examination, they found it did interfere with his pacemaker. The report was published, and calls for warning labels on portable music and video devices ensued.

(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Employers who offer special training and other measures to help employees avoid back pain due to lifting heavy objects may be wasting their money.

Finnish researchers who reviewed the results of 11 studies comparing back pain prevention interventions with each other and with no intervention at all find little difference in outcomes between the groups.

The studies included eight trials involving health care workers who were charged with moving patients and three trials involving workers in the baggage handling and postal industries. The studies looked at things like training programs to teach people to lift correctly, the use of back belts to support the back during lifting, physical exercise to keep the back in better shape, and several combinations of these measures. Some of the studies compared people who received some kind of intervention with those who received no help at all.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Studies show up to 20 percent of a child’s IQ is influenced by prenatal and postnatal experience. Learn what you and your baby need before and after birth with these 15 compelling news reports produced by the leading medical news reporting team in the country:

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Walking may be just as good for your mind as it is for your body.

A new study from Italy finds people age 65 and older who regularly walk and do other kinds of moderate exercise seem to greatly lower their risk of vascular dementia – the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers looked at 749 men and women in Italy over age 65 who did not have memory problems when the study began. They measured the amount of energy participants exerted every week in their physical activities which included walking, climbing stairs, and moderate activities such as house and yard work, gardening, and light carpentry. By the end of the four-year study 54 people developed Alzheimer’s; 27 developed vascular dementia.

Treating hepatitis B patients with the drug entecavir can cause those who are also infected with HIV to become resistant to two of the most important drugs in the anti-HIV arsenal, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Cross-resistance alarms raised earlier this year by Johns Hopkins researchers about a widely used antiviral therapy for hepatitis B liver infections have prompted swift treatment revisions by the drug’s maker and governmental agencies.

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ST. PAUL, Minn — More women than men appear to be having a stroke in middle age, according to a study published June 20, 2007, in the online edition of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say heart disease and increased waist size may be contributing to this apparent mid-life stroke surge among women.

For the study, researchers analyzed data from 17,000 people over the age of 18 who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Of the participants, 606 people experienced a stroke.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Different snake families may share more ingredients in their venom than researchers once thought.

A new study unexpectedly finds a toxin from a different snake family in the rare Desert Massasauga Rattlesnake, as well as a new type of toxin.

Researchers from Singapore and the University of Northern Colorado created a genetic library of the Massasauga snake’s venom gland and created 576 tagged sequences. The venom showed several known sequences, but it also had three-finger toxins – a family of poisons thought to only be in the Elapidae snake family.