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Health Tip: If You're Pregnant and Have Diabetes
Published 04/17/2018(HealthDay News) -- Women who have diabetes should take precautions to ensure that both mother and baby stay healthy throughout pregnancy.
High maternal blood sugar can harm the developing baby, resulting in birth defects or miscarriage. This is especially true during the first few weeks of pregn...
'Flexitarian' Eating: Part Vegetarian, Part Not
Published 04/17/2018TUESDAY, April 17, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to eat more vegetables and less meat, but don't want to give up meat altogether, there's an alternative.
It's called flexitarian -- for flexible vegetarian. You primarily eat a vegetarian diet, but you eat meat on certain days of the week o...
Health Tip: Understanding Allergy Blood Testing
Published 04/17/2018(HealthDay News) -- Allergy testing may be recommended for people who suspect they react to allergens such as animal dander, food, dust or pollen.
When you have an allergy, your immune system treats this type of harmless substance as a threat. To fight this perceived threat, your immune system ma...
Drug Keytruda May Help Block Melanoma's Return
Published 04/16/2018MONDAY, April 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Taking the drug Keytruda after surgery for advanced melanoma significantly reduced patients' risk of their cancer returning, a new study found.
Last May, Keytruda (pembrolizumab) became the first ever drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...
Can 'Mono' Virus Up Odds for 7 Other Diseases?
Published 04/16/2018MONDAY, April 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of young Americans have lived through the fatigue and discomfort of mononucleosis.
Now, new research suggests, but doesn't prove, that the virus that causes the illness may be linked to an increased risk for seven other serious immune-system dis...
Health Highlights: April 16, 2018
Published 04/16/2018Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Flesh-Eating Disease Outbreak in Australia
Australia has been hit by an outbreak of an infectious flesh-eating disease that typically occurs in Africa, and urgent action is needed to fight it,...