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Tuesday's Health Headlines

Osteoporosis in Men,

Doctors say men over 65 should be screened for osteoporosis.

Research released today in the Annals of Internal Medicine found male cases of osteoporosis often go undiagnosed and untreated.

And, it's estimated about six in every one hundred men have the disease.

In fact, men who have osteoporosis and fall and break a hip are twice as likely to die from the injury in the following year.

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Prozac might not just fight depression.

Another new study in the British Medical Journal reports the drug may slow multiple sclerosis.

Researchers found patients who took the drug had fewer of the brain lesions that are a sign of MS.

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And we may just be five years away from solving potentially deadly peanut allergies.

Researchers say they're getting closer.

They are working on a drug therapy designed to short-circuit the immune system response... and avoid the fatal side effects of eating peanuts.