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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

1 in 4 U.S. Adults Lacked Health Insurance
Last Year: Survey

More than a quarter of U.S. adults ages 19-64 did not have health
insurance for at least some time in 2011 and nearly 70 percent of those
people had been without coverage for more than a year, a new survey
says.

The Commonwealth Fund survey and other research shows that people
without health insurance often forego needed medical care and do not get
important preventive health services such as cancer screening, the Los
Angeles Times reported.

For example, the new survey found that nearly three-quarters of women
ages 40-64 with health insurance had a mammogram in the previous two
years, compared with 28 percent of women in that age group who had been
without insurance for a year or more.

Gaps in insurance coverage would be reduced as a result of President
Barack Obama’s new healthcare law, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a
leading authority on health policy, the Times reported.

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Study Raises Hopes for Cerebral Palsy
Breakthrough

Rabbits born with cerebral palsy regained near-normal mobility within
five days of receiving a new treatment that delivered an anti-inflammatory
drug directly into damaged parts of the brain, according to
researchers.

The results offer hope of a potential breakthrough in treating people
with the incurable neurological disorder that affects movement and muscle
coordination, Agence France-Presse reported.

The rabbits were born immobile due to cerebral palsy and began
treatment within six hours of birth. The drug they received was
N-acetyl-L-cystine, which is commonly used to treat people who overdose on
acetaminophen.

“The importance of this work is that it indicates that there is a
window in time, immediately after birth, when neuroinflammation can be
identified and when treatment with a nanodevice can reverse the features
of cerebral palsy,” said co-author Roberto Romero, an obstetrician at the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, AFP
reported.

The study appears in the journal Science Translational
Medicine.

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Veterans Affairs Increases Mental Health
Staffing

About 1,600 more psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other
mental health clinicians will be hired in an attempt to shorten long wait
times for mental health services at U.S. veterans medical centers, the
Department of Veterans Affairs says.

The new clinical employees, augmented by the addition of 300 clerical
workers, will boost the department’s mental health staff by nearly 10
percent, The New York Times reported.

The veterans health system is being swamped by veterans returning from
Iraq and Afghanistan and aging veterans of the Vietnam War, and is under
fire for delays in providing mental health services at some of its major
medical centers.

“History shows that the costs of war will continue to grow for a decade
or more after the operational missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have
ended,” Eric K. Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, said in a
statement to be released Thursday, The Times reported. “As more
veterans return home, we must ensure that all veterans have access to
quality mental health care.”

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Entertainment Legend Dick Clark Dies at
82

Dick Clark, best known as the longtime host of “American Bandstand” and
“Dick Clark’s New
Year’s Rockin’ Eve” passed away Wednesday, his agent Paul Shefrin said in
a statement.

Shefrin said that Clark, 82, died Wednesday morning of a “massive heart
attack,” ABC News reported.

Clark, whose full name was Richard Wagstaff Clark, was born in 1929 in
Mount Vernon, N.Y., and got his start as a teenager working in the
mailroom in an upstate New York radio station. He quickly made his way
onto the air, and later hosted his own radio show at a station in
Philadelphia before taking over as host of “Bandstand.”

“Bandstand” and Clark became synonymous with the promotion of
rock’n’roll music and his Dick Clark Productions produced such TV hits as
“Pyramid” and the “American Music Awards,” ABC News said.

Clark’s ever-youthful demeanor gained him the nickname “America’s
Oldest Teenager,” but in 2004 a stroke left him partially paralyzed. He
recovered and within a year was back hosting “Dick Clark’s New Year’s
Rockin’ Eve.”

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Breast Cancer 10 Different Diseases:
Study

A “landmark” international study says breast cancer should be regarded
as 10 completely separate diseases and that this type of categorization
could improve treatment by tailoring drugs for a patient’s exact type of
breast cancer.

The researchers analyzed breast cancers from 2,000 women and their
findings appear in the journal Nature. It will take at least three
years for their findings to be used in hospitals, BBC News
reported.

The study authors compared breast cancer to a map of the world and said
current tests for the disease are quite broad and split breast cancer up
into the equivalent of continents instead of countries. These new findings
allow doctors to identify individual “countries.”

“Breast cancer is not one disease, but 10 different diseases,” said
lead researcher Prof Carlos Caldas, BBC News reported. “Our results
will pave the way for doctors in the future to diagnose the type of breast
cancer a woman has, the types of drugs that will work and those that
won’t, in a much more precise way than is currently possible.”

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