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Study seeks key to staying cancer-free
When Alpa Patel's grandfather was diagnosed with cancer, he seemed healthy: The 64-year-old had been training for a triathlon when doctors found a lemon-size tumor in his brain. He died almost a year to the day from when he was diagnosed. Patel, only...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colon Cancer, Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses, Lung Cancer
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Chinese officials urge calm as seventh bird flu victim dies
The toll from China’s new strain of bird flu climbed to seven on Monday with the death of a 64-year-old retiree in Shanghai and the number of cases spread to 24, but officials expressed confidence the outbreak could be contained. The World...
Tags: Flu, Diseases and Illnesses, Shanghai (China), China, Health Organizations
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No link found between vaccines, Guillain-Barre syndrome
In a review of data covering 13 years and millions of patients, researchers found no evidence of a link between being vaccinated against tetanus, hepatitis, pneumonia or flu and developing the nerve-degenerating disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome. "The...Tags: HIV, Flu, Vaccines, Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin on 'How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick'
Letty Cottin Pogrebin has never been one to sit back and stay quiet. Not hardly. A lifelong activist and writer, she co-founded Ms. magazine with Gloria Steinem in 1971, staking her flag in the frontlines of the American feminist movement. Over the...
Tags: Dietary Supplements, Breast Cancer, Chicago Tribune, Diseases and Illnesses, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Organs needed: You could save a life
PETOSKEY — It's a hard subject for Tina Stead to talk about -- how her family's life changed in what seemed like an instant. Tina, 32, and her husband Mike, 31, have been together for 12 years. The Boyne City couple has three children -- sons,...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Flu, Cardiologists, Stroke, Heart Failure
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Power outages hard on SW Minn. livestock producers
WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) - The spring storms that knocked out power in parts of southwestern Minnesota recently have been hard on livestock producers. Cattle producer and veterinarian Erin deKoning said she's glad the power came back April 15 at her farm... -
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Mexico
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Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from the hospital after 10 days undergoing treatment for pneumonia, officials said Saturday. Mandela's discharge was a huge relief for South Africans,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela
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Memorial plaque to be presented at site of theater wall's collapse in Winchester
A plaque will be dedicated Thursday in honor of those killed and injured when a wall collapsed in a movie theater 95 years ago. The Pastime Theater Disaster Memorial Plaque will mark what’s called the worst tragedy in the history of Winchester. On...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Interest
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Margel L. Burton, factory worker
Margel L. Burton, a retired factory worker and former longtime Dundalk resident, died March 29 from complications of pneumonia at Carolina Point Nursing Home in Durham, N.C. She was 81. The daughter of farmers, the former Margel Love Gray was born and...
Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Heart Surgery, Heart Disease, Hospitals and Clinics
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Medication nation: Study shows antibiotic overuse
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds. Overuse is one reason antibiotics are losing...
Tags: Azithromycin (drug), Drugs and Medicines, Medical Research, Flu, Diseases and Illnesses
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Kimmy Couldn't Survive The System
The Hartford CourantKelly Carrignan was just a kid when the movie "Charly" came out, telling the tale of a mentally challenged man who undergoes an experimental operation and becomes a genius. "I always wished something like that could work for Kimmy," she said,...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), West Haven, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics, AIDS
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