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We all need the sunshine vitamin
FARGO, N.D. - I chuckled as I read a Facebook friend's comments about her ongoing relationship with a shovel this winter. She described “him” (the shovel) as “pushy and stubborn.” One of her friends suggested that she “dump him.” We had a blizzard in...Tags: Onions, Heart Disease, Vitamin D, Garlic, Mineral Supplements
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Ken Baumann's secret life in books
To some people — those who might attend a guerrilla reading in San Francisco, for example — Ken Baumann is a writer and small-press publisher who is part of the contemporary literary vanguard. And yet, to a generation of adolescent girls, he's...
Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Authors, Book
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Gut check
How are your microbes doing today? Yes, your personalized, bazillion little bacteria working their magic in your stomach and intestines and -- if you're to believe many recent reports -- may be causing you problems with auto-immune issues. What's an...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Lupus, Science and Technology, The New York Times, Vegan Diet
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Help yourself -- eat a little dirt
chrisc@herald-mail.comAmericans live in a food paradise. Food is generally plentiful, cheap and made to be convenient. And, despite the occasional food-poisoning event, the food supply is consistently safe to eat. Government food-safety regulations limit amounts of...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Healthy Diet, Viral Diseases and Infections, Washington, DC, Science and Technology
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'Melrose Place' actress sentenced to 3 years in deadly DUI crash
Actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer spent a season living at "Melrose Place" -- now she'll spend three years living behind bars at a New Jersey state prison. Locane-Bovenizer was sentenced Thursday to three years for vehicular homicide and three for assault by...
Tags: Social Media, Celebrities, Judges, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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New grant will help reduce incidence of Johne's disease in dairy cows
ITHACA, N.Y. - Every day, more than 16 million gallons of milk are consumed in the United States. However, despite the technology and safety standards in place, some of that milk contains a nasty bacterium that is linked to Johne's disease in cattle and...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Colleges and Universities, Drugs and Medicines
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The gut and its bacteria a growing focus of research
The yards of dank tubing in our midsections form a complex, amazing and absolutely pivotal foundation for human health. And the more that scientists come to appreciate this, the more they anticipate that future medical discoveries will come from the lowly...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Colleges and Universities, Drugs and Medicines
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Oh, boo hoo
Change of Subject(Dan Webb and other) lawyers for (convicted former Gov. George) Ryan, 72, had sought a sentence of 2 1/2 years in prison, saying they feared anything much longer could amount to a death sentence. He suffers from Crohn's disease and...... -
Baltimore document thief sentenced to year in prison
The younger of two men who admitted to stealing a wealth of culturally significant documents was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison, ending the prosecution of a case that began at the Maryland Historical Society and rattled archives,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Trials, Manhattan (New York City), Culture, Prosecution
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Danielle Leavitt rises above Crohn's Disease to star in academics, athletics
Her journey began ominously, in a hospital, with a doctor holding test results from a colonoscopy. "Oh, my God, this is one sick kid," the doctor told her parents. A biopsy revealed a severe case of Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Biology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Probiotics: A gut-check on bacterial health
A fascinating, if disconcerting, fact: More than 100 trillion so-called good bacteria thrive in or on the human body. A sizable chunk of them maintain residence in the human digestive tract. Probiotics, live microorganisms that benefit their human host,...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, American Medical Association, Diarrhea, Probiotics, Yeast Infection
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Jennifer Jaff dies at 55; advocate for the chronically ill
Jennifer Jaff was on the brink of attending law school when her doctor tried to stop her because she had a debilitating chronic illness. "I decided I couldn't stay in bed the rest of my life," she later said. "I had to live." Decades later she was a...
Tags: Lawyers, Civil Rights, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, City University of New York, Queens (New York City)
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Oct 6, 2012
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