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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama did not come to Portsmouth Tuesday to dictate how he thought the health care system should be changed, but rather to listen to opinions. Asking more questions than his audience, the Illinois Democrat and presidential hopeful heard dozens of stories from Seacoast voters on how the current employer-based system has failed them. The 100 people in attendance, ranging from divorced moms to health care providers, also offered suggestions on how to improve the system.

The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have decided to launch a large-scale clinical trial to study and see whether or not the nutritional supplement creatine will be able to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. The double-blind, placebo-controlled study will be conducted at 51 medical centers in the United States and in Canada, and will include 1,720 people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease.

Federal drug regulators are carefully studying common children’s cold and cough medicines because they beleive that they have not been studied enough before being given to children. One of the top Food and Drug Administration officials, Dr. Charles J. Ganley, stated that the agency is “revisiting the risks and benefits of the use of these drugs in children,”. They are concentrating more on what effect it has on children who are 2 and under.

When people are trying to lose weight they will usually try anything that they can. Unfortunately some people do not always read all of the things that they can about what they are trying at the time. It is always important that before you try anything you study up on it and make sure that it is something that will not hurt you in the long run. Right now there is a question about whether or not substituting trans fat is a good thing to do.

Cancer is the worst possible thing that can happen to anyone and unfortuantely it is becoming more common as time goes by. Breast cancer is the main cancer that is contracted by women. It is a painful disease and usually it takes years to try to destroy the cancer cells. Yet, even with the right type of medical care it is rare that the cancer leaves the body for good. Yet, newer medications are being discovered that may help women more.