Read those colorful labels before choosing a fruit drink
A Florida Department of Citrus study shows most so called fruit drinks are mainly sugar and water despite bright labels. Even 100 percent juice may lack nutrients, with many products only partly juice and high in sugars.
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Florida Department of Citrus
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Andrea Farmer
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Brown fat may offer new obesity treatments
Brown fat burns calories to generate heat while white fat stores them. Adults have little brown fat, but studies show animals can replace white fat with brown and humans may too. Research aims to unlock body tricks to shift energy balance and aid obesity therapy, with mice showing weight loss via drugs or cold exposure.
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Les Kozak
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Jackson Laboratory
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First cure for sickle cell found in bone marrow transplant
A study reported 16 of 22 sickle cell patients were free of the disease two years after transplant but mortality in young children reached 10 percent. Doctors warn the cure comes with serious risks and limits, while the treatment uses a patient’s marrow replaced by donor marrow to potentially restore normal blood cells.
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Dallas
Zora Rogers
Children’s Medical Center
Mark Walters
New England Journal of Medicine
Plague Claims First US Fatality of 1996
An 18 year old man died Aug 3 likely after flea bite, first U S plague death of 1996. Health officials note delayed treatment worsened outcome. septicemic plague was fatal if untreated, pneumonic fatal with no treatment. CDC reports three plague forms common in rodents and wildlife.
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Phoenix
United States
Craig Levy
Arizona Department of Health Services
Centers For Disease Control
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