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| Morning sickness remedy contains lead NEW YORK (UPI) -- Pregnant women should not use the morning sickness remedy calabash chalk, which may contain lead and arsenic, the New York City health department warns.
The product was recently found in local New York stores selling African remedies. The chalk-like substance -- also known as calabash clay, nzu, poto, calabar stone, mabele, argile or la craie -- can be sold as large pellets or in blocks that resemble clay or mud.
It is often packaged in clear plastic bags, with or without labeling. The remedy is used mainly by women from West African communities, health officials said.
"Using calabash chalk is unhealthy for pregnant women and their unborn children," Nancy Clark of the health department's Environmental Disease Prevention Bureau said in a statement. "The sale of these products is illegal. Anyone who has used calabash chalk should call the Poison Control Center at 212-POISONS (764-7667). The Poison Control Center does not check immigration status and its services are available in many languages."
The agency advises people to stop using the product immediately, keep it away from children, and ask a physician to request a blood-lead test. Store owners are directed to remove the product from shelves and post a sign advising customers to stop using the product.
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| Aspirin cuts breast cancer survivors' risk BOSTON (UPI) -- Taking an aspirin two days a week significantly reduced breast cancer survivors' risk of metastasis -- cancer spread -- and death, U.S. researchers said.
Dr. Michelle D. Holmes of the Channing Laboratory at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues found an aspirin at least two days a week significantly reduced breast cancer death risk by 64 percent to 71 percent, Medpage Today reported Tuesday.
The analysis included responses from 4,164 female registered nurses diagnosed with early stage breast cancer from 1976-2002 with follow-up through death or June 2006.
Holmes said aspirin use assessments in the first year after the breast cancer diagnosis were excluded since the drug is discouraged during chemotherapy.
For the women who survived for more than a year after diagnosis, those who used aspirin more were less likely to subsequently die from breast cancer, the study said.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, were "all the more notable because the Nurses' Health Study did not find an association between aspirin use and breast cancer incidence."
However, aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may help prevent the spread of cancer once cancer occurred by reducing the blood supply to tumors. Aspirin isn't risk-free and can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, and further research is needed, the researchers warned.
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| Making the same mistakes in love can stop GREENWICH, Conn. (UPI) -- A U.S. psychologist says a pattern of unhealthy relationships or making the same mistakes in love over and over can be broken.
Dr. Mark Beitel of Greenwich Hospital's Center for Integrative Medicine in Connecticut says psychotherapy is designed to help a person become aware of repeating negative expectations about love and to correct them so that a more enjoyable love life can be pursued.
"Certain conditions for loving and being loved are created and then maintained across a person's lifespan, and negative life experiences can damage the developing capacity for love," Beitel says in a statement. "People get stuck because the conditions that they have set up for loving tend to operate just outside of awareness."
One way to iron out the wrinkles for the capacity for love is simply to be more present, or mindful, in everyday life, Beitel says.
"Mindfulness can also help us to see our loved ones as they are rather than as we want them to be," Beitel says. "Seeing others clearly reduces the confusion, biases and inappropriate expectations that prevent us from connecting authentically."
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| Underlying condition increases H1N1 risk OTTAWA (UPI) -- The risk of death increases by 5.5 percent in the time between when the symptoms of H1N1 start and hospital admittance, Canadian researchers found.
Dr. Rachel Rodin of the Public Health Agency of Canada and colleagues examined the records of all patients in Canada admitted to hospital for H1N1 in the first five months of the outbreak.
The study looked at 1,479 people admitted to hospital, including the intensive care unit with confirmed H1N1.
"All 13 provinces and territories in Canada participated in an active national surveillance system that captured all cases of laboratory-confirmed pandemic H1N1 influenza in patients admitted to hospital or who died," Rodin said in a statement.
The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found the risk of death increased by 5.5 percent with a delay of one day in the time between when the symptoms started and when the patient was admitted to the hospital. The risk of a severe outcome remained constant over a five-month period.
The risk of a severe outcome among patients admitted to hospital with H1N1 was elevated among those who had an underlying medical condition and patients age 20 years and older -- with patients 65 and older at the greatest risk for death.
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