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		<title>Women and babies &#8216;put at risk by aggressive IVF&#8217; ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Professor Geeta Nargund, head of reproductive medicine at St George&#8217;s Hospital in south London, voiced her concerns at a conference in Copenhagen. She said there was increasing evidence that the standard method of IVF used in Britain, which involves stimulating the ovaries with high doses of drugs to produce large numbers of eggs for harvesting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Can Make New Eggs After All, Stem-Cell Study Hints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Women may make new eggs throughout their reproductive years—challenging a longstanding tenet that females are born with finite supplies, a new study says. The discovery may also lead to new avenues for improving women's health and fertility.”]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/women-can-make-new-eggs-after-all-stem-cell-study-hints/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Medicine Goes Under the Microscope ─ The Wall Street Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists studying a four-herb combination discovered some 1,800 years ago by Chinese herbalists have found that the substance enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy in patients with colon cancer.]]></description>
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		<title>Fooducate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you confused by ingredient lists, nutrition labels, health claims and marketing hype? Fooducate is here to help. Designed by a team of parents, dietitians, and techies this app helps analyzing food labels at the supermarket in no time and extracts the information that is important to you. It is designed to help you make better choices for you and your family.]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/fooducate/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Acupuncture, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Understanding Acupuncture, Part 1 I explained that acupuncture is based on the same scientific standards Western medicine is established on. It is not a belief system or primitive medical practice founded on esoteric or metaphysical concepts. The mechanisms of acupuncture are based on the concepts of nerves, vessels, and blood circulation and not on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/understanding-acupuncture-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Save Your Kids From Big Food!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a third of poor preschoolers being obese by age 5 and a $1 trillion junk-food industry intentionally marketing foods to our children that can be as addictive as nicotine and cocaine it's about time for a drastic change...]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/save-your-kids-from-big-food/</link>
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		<title>3 Tips to Get You Fit and Healthy in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being fit and healthy is probably the most popular New Year’s resolution. Here are three simple tips that will help you fulfill it this year.]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/three-tips-to-get-you-fit-and-healthy-in-2011/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Acupuncture, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does acupuncture work?  This post looks at some popular misconceptions about Chinese medicine, and explains how it affects our bodies and health in simple words.  I hope that breaking the “super-natural” myth will make acupuncture accessible to more people who can benefit from it. ]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/understanding-acupuncture-part-1/</link>
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		<title>“Nature-Deficit Disorder” – exploring the links between depression and modern lifestyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us will agree that we spend too much time indoors and in front of computers, and that we suffer from an information overload.  But how does it affect us?]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/%e2%80%9cnature-deficit-disorder%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-exploring-the-links-between-depression-and-modern-lifestyle/</link>
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		<title>IVF Treatment Increases Risk for Ovarian Cancers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In vitro fertilization is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed. A recently published study shows evidence that this form of treatment is associated with an increased risk to develop borderline ovarian tumors. ]]></description>
		<link>http://andreasschwerte.com/ivf-treatment-increases-risk-for-ovarian-cancers/</link>
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