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Getting back to work after a heart attack
Q: My 59-year-old husband just came home after being hospitalized for a mild heart attack. He was only in the hospital for five days, and he feels great, though he does have to take three prescription medicines plus aspirin. I'm writing because my...
Tags: Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Men's Health, Medical Procedures and Tests, Prescription Drugs
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Notre Dame men's basketball: Hoover finds hoops home across the sea
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterAt a time in life when he should be shredding guys half his age in church-league pickup games, then reaching afterward for some aspirin and Icy-Hot, former Notre Dame guard Ryan Hoover continues to play professional basketball. Having graduated Notre...Tags: Big East Conference, Sports, National Basketball Association, College Sports, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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In tribute, Mexico fondly remembers writer Carlos Fuentes
World NowIn a solemn tribute, mourners remembered the late novelist Carlos Fuentes as a Mexican man of letters who helped open the eyes of the world to Mexico.... -
LVH plays a role in aspirin-warfarin study
HealthPatients recruited through Lehigh Valley Hospital helped play a role in an important study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study took 10 years and was the largest double-blind comparison of aspirin and warfarin, a blood-... -
Chuck Witt: Finding a cure for everything
“It’s a Brave New World!” Aldous Huxley created this science fiction world in 1931, and it has remained a popular work since then. Now, it would seem from many appearances, we have actually entered the world that he described over...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Pharmaceuticals, General Practitioners, Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry
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Unnecessary medicine: Physician groups list 45 overused tests, procedures
Should you get a cardiac stress test as part of your annual checkup? A chest X-ray before outpatient surgery? A CT scan or antibiotics for chronic sinusitis? In most cases, no. But patients get these commonly used tests and procedures — and many...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Dialysis, General Practitioners, Cancer, University of Chicago
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Hospitals use technology to cut ER wait times
Time — as in hours spent writhing in pain, drawing labored breaths or trying to soothe a fevered child — is the latest front in the competitive battle among area hospitals. Given the notoriously long waits in the nation's emergency rooms,...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Advertising, Flu, Cinderella (fictional character), Health Insurance
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Closer to using aspirin for cancer prevention
CNNA new report in the journal Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology suggests that we could be inching closer to using aspirin as part of clinical guidelines in cancer prevention. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force encourages an aspirin regimen for some...Tags: Heart Problems, Drugs and Medicines, Cancer, Medical Specialization, Colon Cancer
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Top 10 Things To Keep In Your Medicine Cabinet
- Allergy Medication
Whether you have seasonal allergies to pollen or environment allergies to pet dander and dust mites, it’s always a good idea to keep an over-the-counter allergy medication, like an antihistamine, in your medicine cabinet. ...Tags: Flu, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Pharmaceuticals, Headaches, Chemical Industry
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Fighting the black and blues
A bruise, quite simply, is the booby prize that comes with life's lumps and bumps.
It's what you see when blood leaks out of blood vessels into tissues of skin, mucous membranes or other organs, including muscle and bone. Most of the time, it's nothing...Tags: Coumadin (drug), Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Substance Abuse, Plavix (drug)
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Crime follies show why crime does not pay
Crime is not supposed to be amusing, and an aspirin allegation in Lower Macungie Township would not ordinarily make one think of a multimillion-dollar caper on the other side of the state. Still, Thursday's story in The Morning Call — about a man...Tags: Tom Corbett, Economy, Business and Finance, Prisons, Prosecution, Jay Leno
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Adventurer John Fairfax dies at 74; rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
After adventurer John Fairfax became the first person in recorded history to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, he said he couldn't have done it without the help of "a great teacher," a pirate. The navigational skills needed for his six-month trip in...Tags: Sports, Heart Attack, Organized Crime, Bodies of Water, Rowing
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