Health Tip: Choose the Right Backpack (HealthDay) HealthDay - (
HealthDay News) - Children can suffer bruises, muscle stiffness and strains from backpacks that are too heavy or are worn improperly.
Source: news.yahoo.comProtein that could fight obesity discovered: Swedish study (AFP) 
AFP - Researchers in Sweden have discovered a protein that stimulates the formation of fat cells, a finding that could potentially be used to treat obesity, the Karolinska Institute said Wednesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comWeight-Loss Drug Fights Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (HealthDay) HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 5 (
HealthDay News) -- Mice given the weight-loss drug rimonabant became resistant to alcohol's fat-building effects in the liver, which suggests the medication may help fight alcoholic fatty liver in humans, says a U.S. study.
Source: news.yahoo.comPost hormone therapy, women still had higher risk of cancer (AFP) 
AFP - Post-menopausal women who stopped hormone replacement therapy continued to run a higher risk of cancer than women administered a placebo, new research showed Wednesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comRetiree couple needs $225K for medical (AP) AP - A couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 in savings to cover medical costs in retirement, according to a study released Wednesday by Fidelity Investments.
Source: news.yahoo.comSnow eating now endangered kid pleasure (AP) 
AP - To the list of simple childhood pleasures whose safety has been questioned, add this: eating snow. A recent study found that snow � even in relatively pristine spots like Montana and the Yukon � contains large amounts of bacteria.
Source: news.yahoo.comIdentical in-vitro triplets born in NY (AP) 
AP - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first news conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now. The identical triplets were born Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island � an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births.
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