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Today's HEALTH News
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Today's HEALTH News
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Yard Sale to Aid Cancer SocietyA yard sale to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday at 202 N. Miami Ave.The sale is being put on by the Davenport Relay for Life.It will feature a variety of items, including clothes, toys, home furnishings, baby items and furniture.... more»
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VA Doctor Tried to Curb Benefits for Stress TherapyWASHINGTON | The physician in charge of the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments for the condition.... more»
YH: Top Stories
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Dental Clinics, Meeting a Need With No Dentist
The dental clinic in this village on the edge of the Bering Sea looks like any other, with four chairs, a well-scrubbed floor and a waiting area filled with magazines. more»
YH: Family Health
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Little Children
EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life. By Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. 242 pp. Doubleday. $23.95. more»
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Hazards: Gymnastics Grades High in Injuries, Too
It’s not all handsprings, cartwheels and round-offs. It’s also sprains, dislocations and fractures. Gymnastics, a new study finds, can take a heavy toll on its young practitioners’ bodies. more»
YH: Health News
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The Short End of the Longer Life
THROUGHOUT the 20th century, it was an American birthright that each generation would live longer than the last. Year after year, almost without exception, the anticipated life span of the average American rose inexorably, to 78 years in 2005 from 61 years in 1933, when comprehensive data first... more»
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Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways
Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded. more»
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Glaxo Says Compound in Wine May Fight Aging
Like many aging pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline has been looking for rejuvenation. Now it thinks it might have literally found the elixir of youth. more»
YH: Fitness Nutritution
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Sticker Shock in the Organic Aisles
Shoppers have long been willing to pay a premium for organic food. But how much is too much? more»
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The All-Natural Taste That Wasn’t
FOR a seller of “chilly bliss” and “swirly goodness,” Pinkberry has taken a lot of heat. more»
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Cheating Starts Before the Race Does
THE eBay entry was so brazen it almost seemed like a joke: “2008 Boston Marathon entry on the FRONT ROW Must See!!” more»
YH: Personal Health
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Desperate to Cry, Desperate Not To
I knelt down in front of the elderly woman’s wheelchair so she could see me. She wore a baby-blue sweatsuit and smelled of cigarettes and hair spray. “My breathing,” she said in her gravelly voice, “it’s a little worse.” more»
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Cases: A Holiday From Illness, All Too Fleeting
When I entered his hospital room, his exuberance seemed so out of place, so foreign, that my first instinct was to find a pathologic cause for it. Perhaps the medicines were affecting his brain; the high doses of steroids given after a kidney transplant can do that. more»
YH: Columnists
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Well: Putting Your Kitchen on a Diet
Most of us try to slim down our bodies. But a new book suggests the better strategy is to first slim down our kitchens. more»
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- CDC: Syringe reuse linked to hepatitis C outbreak
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20:40, 5/16/08
CDC: Syringe reuse linked to hepatitis C outbreakA hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a...... more»
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- Survival of quake victims depends on many factors
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18:22, 5/16/08
Survival of quake victims depends on many factorsA nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in...... more»
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- FDA stresses birth defect risks with Roche drug
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16:56, 5/16/08
FDA stresses birth defect risks with Roche drugHealth regulators warned again Friday that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed to organ transplant...... more»
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- Vitamin D may help curb breast cancer, study finds
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11:26, 5/16/08
Vitamin D may help curb breast cancer, study findsBreast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or...... more»
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- Drug combo helps women with advanced breast cancer
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01:25, 5/16/08
Drug combo helps women with advanced breast cancerA combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to...... more»
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- Vitamin D may help curb breast cancer, study finds
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21:07, 5/15/08
Vitamin D may help curb breast cancer, study findsBreast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or...... more»
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- More cancer patients having whole breast removed
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21:03, 5/15/08
More cancer patients having whole breast removedA growing number of women with early stage breast cancer seem to be choosing to have the whole...... more»
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- Study finds heart risks in young cancer survivors
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21:03, 5/15/08
Study finds heart risks in young cancer survivorsChildren who survive cancer face a much greater risk of heart problems later in life than their...... more»
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- Tips on getting vitamin D for cancer prevention
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21:01, 5/15/08
Tips on getting vitamin D for cancer preventionEvidence is growing that vitamin D, which the skin makes from sunshine, is linked to lower risk of...... more»
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- People over 60 urged to get one-time shingles shot
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20:00, 5/15/08
People over 60 urged to get one-time shingles shotPeople 60 and older should get a one-time shingles shot that can help prevent the painful rash,...... more»
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- 9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach
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15:52, 5/15/08
9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomachA 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to...... more»
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- TV drug ads may have to zoom in on side effects
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14:12, 5/15/08
TV drug ads may have to zoom in on side effectsWould consumers get the same warm, fuzzy message from a drug advertisement that promised to lift...... more»
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- Study likely spells end for anti-bleeding drug
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10:10, 5/15/08
Study likely spells end for anti-bleeding drugAn anti-bleeding drug probably will stay off the market, experts say, after a rigorous study found...... more»
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- Study likely spells end for anti-bleeding drug
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19:58, 5/14/08
Study likely spells end for anti-bleeding drugAn anti-bleeding drug probably will stay off the market, experts say, after a rigorous study found...... more»
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- Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer
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16:19, 5/14/08
Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancerGet your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years - starting as...... more»
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- Government to unveil fitness test for adults
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16:18, 5/14/08
Government to unveil fitness test for adultsIf you didn't get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you...... more»
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- More Americans are taking prescription medications
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16:18, 5/14/08
More Americans are taking prescription medicationsFor the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription...... more»
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- O'Connor makes personal plea for Alzheimer's aid
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15:41, 5/14/08
O'Connor makes personal plea for Alzheimer's aidThe first woman on the Supreme Court is now the nation's most prominent Alzheimer's...... more»
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- Beijing reports first child virus death
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02:58, 5/14/08
Beijing reports first child virus deathChina's capital reported Wednesday its first death from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that...... more»
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- Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer
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21:06, 5/13/08
Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancerGet your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years - starting as...... more»
