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Cancer, heart surgery can't keep her from her true love
This is for all those people who are seriously ill and thinking they may never do what they love again. I was like that in 2010, recovering from back-to-back breast cancer and heart surgeries and the aftermath. I thought tennis, which is my athletic...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer, Andre Agassi, Tennis
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1994 Dolphins: Some ex-players succeed, some fall on hard times
A heroin dealer in upstate New York. A juvenile court judge in Tennessee. A Stanford grad overseeing $500 million in pension funds for Florida state retirees. A felon who watched his son win the Heisman Trophy from a jailhouse TV. These are your 1994...
Tags: Football, Super Bowl, Finance, Financially Distressed Companies, Heroin
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More than 5000 area kids suffer from juvenile arthritis
KIAHIt may seem like a movie when you talk about a child suffering from old age and arthritis, but this is no movie. For 5000 kids in the Houston area, that is the reality of juvenile arthritis Bella Lawler, age 11, suffers from JA and says, "I was getting...Tags: Allergies, Arthritis
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Howard County Pets: Is it unhealthy to share my bed with a pet?
Q: After news reports earlier this year, we’re wondering: Is it unhealthy or unsanitary to allow dogs or cats to share our beds? A: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study that triggered concerns and news-media...Tags: Arizona, Human Body, Diseases and Illnesses, Chemical Industry, Health
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Pets and your health: the good and the bad
They cuddle and purr. And they shed. They wag their tails and fetch your slippers. And they shed. They never talk back and they never hold a grudge. And they shed.
There are obvious pluses and minuses to living with pets, not only with respect to your...Tags: Headaches, Human Body, Diseases and Illnesses, Toxoplasmosis , Symptoms
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Optical illusion dampens arthritis pain
Seeing the movements of a healthy hand mirroring one's own movements plays a welcome trick on the brains of arthritis sufferers, a new study shows: It reduces the perception of pain. The observation, reported this week at the Society for Neuroscience's...Tags: University of California, San Diego, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Human Body
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Taking care of diabetes during holidays
More than 20 million Americans are living with diabetes, and another 40 million are in the early stages of the disease. Managing diabetes can be a challenge all year long, but the holidays can pose special problems. All those extra treats, meals and...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Holidays, Health, Kidney Disease, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Ulman Cancer Fund merges with 4K for Cancer to help fundraising
Ryan Hanley spent the summer before he turned 18 thinking about organizing a transcontinental bike ride to raise money for cancer. When he entered the Johns Hopkins University, he set about selling the idea and recruiting classmates and friends to ride 4,...Tags: Ken Ulman, Appendectomy, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Interest, Leukemia
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Thriving through touch
![The woman — in her 80s — hadn't spoken in months. The nursing home staff figured she had lost the ability. But after six silent months of regular massage sessions, massage therapist Dawn Nelson heard a soft voice utter: "That feels good."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66770617-14120214.jpg "The woman — in her 80s — hadn't spoken in months. The nursing home staff figured she had lost the ability. But after six silent months of regular massage sessions, massage therapist Dawn Nelson heard a soft voice utter: "That feels good.\"")
The woman — in her 80s — hadn't spoken in months. The nursing home staff figured she had lost the ability. But after six silent months of regular massage sessions, massage therapist Dawn Nelson heard a soft voice utter: "That feels good."...Tags: Human Body, Personal Service, Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease, Health
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Wrists overworked? Take regular breaks — and ice the pain
Maybe your wrists and fingers swell when you leave work. Or maybe they ache or go numb in the middle of the night. Sounds as if you've been messing with your carpal tunnel — that tiny tunnel in your wrist where the median nerve, flexor muscles...
Tags: Human Body, Health, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Inflammation, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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K9 CORNER: Treat your dog to a massage
May is National Pet Month so I pulled up the Purina web site to see how they suggested honoring this month. I found about 10 or 12 possibilities listed and selected giving your pet a massage as a good option to discuss. Retrieving my copy of the “...
Tags: Human Body, Personal Service, Health, Fingers, Animals
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Understanding of ACL injuries is still evolving
Concussions may have recently taken the spotlight in lacrosse sports medicine, but anterior cruciate ligament injuries are still a major unanswered issue for the sport. ACL tears are the leading cause of missed game and practice time at both the high...Tags: College Sports, Football, Health, Lacrosse, General Practitioners
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