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July 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Salmonella Illness Tied to Baby Chicks Hits
People in 26 States
A total of 144 people in 26 states have become ill so far in a
salmonella outbreak linked to chicks and ducklings from Mt. Healthy
Hatchery in Ohio, says a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update
released Thursday.
Here are the number of ill persons in each state: Alabama (4), Arizona
(1), Delaware (1), Georgia (5), Illinois (1), Indiana (3), Kansas (1),
Kentucky (5), Louisiana (1), Maine (4), Maryland (1), Massachusetts (2),
Michigan (2), Nebraska (1), New Jersey (1), New York (16), North Carolina
(14), Ohio (37), Pennsylvania (11), Rhode Island (1), South Carolina (1),
Tennessee (11), Texas (2), Vermont (1), Virginia (10), and West Virginia
(7).
Thirty-two people have been hospitalized. One death was reported in New
York, but it’s unclear if the salmonella infection contributed to this
death, the CDC said. Thirty-six percent of the ill people are children age
10 or younger.
The same hatchery was linked to a 2011 outbreak of salmonella.
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Propecia Reported to Cause Long-Term Sexual
Problems
The hair loss prevention drug Propecia can cause long-term sexual
problems in men, according to a new study.
It said that the effects — including erectile dysfunction, reduced sex
drive, orgasm problems and shrinking and painful genitals — can last for
months to years, even after men stop taking the drug, ABC News
reported.
Other side effects reported by patients included depression, anxiety
and mental fogginess.
The study included 54 men under age 40 who reported side effects for at
least three months after taking Propecia. Of those men, 96 percent
experienced sexual problems for more than a year after they stopped taking
the drug. The findings were published Thursday in the Journal of Sexual
Medicine.
“Our findings make me suspicious that this drug may have done permanent
damage to these men,” study author Dr. Michael Irwig, of George Washington
University, told ABC News. “The chances that they will improve? I
think it’s lower and lower the longer they have these side effects.”
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Eye Movements Don’t Reveal Lying:
Study
The belief that your eyes can reveal if you’re lying is a myth,
according to U.K. researchers.
Some psychologists think that people look up to their right when
they’re lying and look up to the left when they’re being honest, BBC
News reported.
But researchers at Edinburgh and Hertfordshire universities conducted a
series of tests on volunteers and found that there was no truth to this
theory. Their findings were published online in the journal PLoS
One.
“A large percentage of the public believes that certain eye movements
are a sign of lying, and this idea is even taught in organizational
training courses,” study co-author Caroline Watt of Edinburgh University
told the BBC. “Our research provides no support for the idea and so
suggests that it is time to abandon this approach to detecting
deceit.”
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Drug Dispensing by Doctors Boosts
Costs
Drugs dispensed by doctors cost much more than those sold by
pharmacies, a practice that adds hundreds of millions of dollars a year to
drug costs paid by American taxpayers, insurance companies and
employers.
For example, one pill of the heartburn drug Zantac costs about 35 cents
when sold by a pharmacy, but can cost nearly 10 times as much ($3.25) when
dispensed by a doctor. Pharmacies sell the muscle relaxant Soma for 60
cents a pill, compared with $3.33 when it is sold by a doctor, The New
York Times reported.
Doctors are most likely to dispense drugs in their office when treating
injured workers. The bills are sent to insurers. Doctors can make tens of
thousands of dollars a year operating their own in-office pharmacies.
The high costs have led some states, such as California and Oklahoma,
to clamp down on the practice, and battles over it are being fought in
states such as Florida, Hawaii and Maryland, The Times
reported.
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Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Receiving
Treatment for Mood Disorder
In response to mounting pressure for more details about his monthlong
absence, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.‘s office released a statement from
his doctor Wednesday saying that Jackson was undergoing “intensive medical
treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder.”
However, citing federal privacy laws, the statement did not reveal any
details about the 47-year-old Chicago Democrat’s whereabouts or the name
of the doctor, the Associated Press reported.
The statement also denied claims that Jackson was being treated for
alcohol or substance abuse.
The term “mood disorder” typically refers to depression or bipolar
disorder, according to several experts interviewed Wednesday by the
AP.
Depression is generally treated on an outpatient basis, but inpatient
treatment could be recommended if the condition was severe enough or if
doctors were concerned about the safety of the patient, said Ian Gotblib,
a professor of psychology at Stanford University.
“The good news is that it’s clearly treatable,” Gotlib told the
AP. He noted that inpatient treatment would likely include
counseling and prescription drugs and that it could take weeks.
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