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Health Tip: Coping With Juvenile Arthritis (HealthDay) March 4, 2009 at 7:03 pm HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Arthritis isn't just a disease of the elderly. Children may be affected by a disease called juvenile arthritis. Clinical Trials Update: March 4, 2009 (HealthDay) March 4, 2009 at 7:03 pm HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Ethnicity May Drive Response to Obesity, Insulin Resistance (HealthDay) March 4, 2009 at 7:03 pm HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- Ethnicity may play a role in the likelihood of developing fatty liver disease or insulin resistance. Is my chemo working? Scans may give faster answer (AP) March 4, 2009 at 3:40 pm AP - When Mike Stevens learned his lungs were riddled with cancer, it took only a week to start chemotherapy — but six weeks to find out if it was doing any good. "You're going through all this suffering and stuff and you want to know, am I going to survive? Is this stuff working?" said Stevens, 48, of La Jolla, Calif. "Your whole life is in sort of a limbo." Aluminum, silica in water affect Alzheimer's risk (Reuters) March 4, 2009 at 2:38 pm Reuters - Higher levels of aluminum in drinking water appear to increase people's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, whereas higher levels of silica appear to decrease the risk, according to French investigators. Health Tip: Coping With Juvenile Arthritis (HealthDay) March 4, 2009 at 2:02 pm HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Arthritis isn't just a disease of the elderly. Children may be affected by a disease called juvenile arthritis. Clinical Trials Update: March 4, 2009 (HealthDay) March 4, 2009 at 2:02 pm HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Ethnicity May Drive Response to Obesity, Insulin Resistance (HealthDay) March 4, 2009 at 2:02 pm HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- Ethnicity may play a role in the likelihood of developing fatty liver disease or insulin resistance. Talk Therapy for Kids' Pain: Better than Pills? (Time.com) March 4, 2009 at 2:00 am Time.com - A small study suggests that a form of mindfulness therapy called acceptance and commitment therapy may help children with chronic pain better than drugs Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews (AP) March 4, 2009 at 12:14 am AP - The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people." Such reviews are becoming more common as consumer ratings services like Zagat's and Angie's List expand beyond restaurants and plumbers to medical care, and some doctors are fighting back. Clinical Trials Update: March 3, 2009 (HealthDay) March 3, 2009 at 11:48 pm HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Men's Sex Lives May Suffer as Waistlines Expand (HealthDay) March 3, 2009 at 11:48 pm HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- The more obese a man, the greater his hormonal changes and the worse his sex life, a new study finds. 'Fasting Signal' Offers Clues to Insulin Resistance in the Obese (HealthDay) March 3, 2009 at 11:48 pm HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- A signal known to play a role during fasting also becomes active in the fat tissue of obese mice in the early stages of progression toward type 2 diabetes, say researchers. They also found that blocking this signal in fat tissue prevents insulin resistance in obese mice.