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RSV and Kids
WGN NewsThree letters – a diagnosis that builds until a baby can't breathe. In adults it's just a common cold. For babies and toddlers it can be deadly. Deralyn Pullins' mother, an intensive care nurse, is used to sitting by a patient's bedside, not her baby...Tags: Lungs and Airways, Human Body, Children's Memorial Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Body
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Dignity therapy allows terminally ill patients to recount lives for posterity
![Peyton "Pete" Dralle wasted little time after he learned doctors could do no more to treat his throat cancer. He took spur-of-the-moment trips, got his affairs in order and, when he finally agreed to care at San Diego Hospice, he documented his life story.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67307850-11150307.jpg "Peyton "Pete\" Dralle wasted little time after he learned doctors could do no more to treat his throat cancer. He took spur-of-the-moment trips, got his affairs in order and, when he finally agreed to care at San Diego Hospice, he documented his life story.")
Peyton "Pete" Dralle wasted little time after he learned doctors could do no more to treat his throat cancer. He took spur-of-the-moment trips, got his affairs in order and, when he finally agreed to care at San Diego Hospice, he documented his life...Tags: Health Treatments, Newspaper and Magazine, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychotherapy, Medical Specialization
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Stem cell trial's cancellation disappoints paraplegic patient and a Northwestern researcher
Dr. Richard Fessler leaned over his patient's back and sliced through skin, muscle and bone until he exposed the man's spinal cord, crushed just days earlier in a motorcycle crash.
He then inserted a syringe into the cable of nerves and injected about...Tags: Northwestern University, Emergency Health Procedures, Medical Specialization, Companies and Corporations, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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National plan calls for end to Alzheimer's by 2025
![The national advocacy group, USAgainstAlzheimer's applauds the release of a draft framework of a national plan to stop Alzheimer's by 2025. "This marks the first time that the federal government has adopted a timeframe to stop Alzheimer's," its press release notes.](http://www.dailypress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67283061-10132826.jpg "The national advocacy group, USAgainstAlzheimer's applauds the release of a draft framework of a national plan to stop Alzheimer's by 2025. "This marks the first time that the federal government has adopted a timeframe to stop Alzheimer's,\" its press release notes.")
The national advocacy group, USAgainstAlzheimer's applauds the release of a draft framework of a national plan to stop Alzheimer's by 2025. "This marks the first time that the federal government has adopted a timeframe to stop Alzheimer's," its press...Tags: Polio, Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease, Health
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Whooping cough facts
Whooping cough, or pertussis, infects babies, children and adults and looks a lot like the common cold at first — runny nose, sneezing and a mild cough or fever, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After one to two...Tags: Whooping Cough, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses, Coughing
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Health Notes: Some posit link between stress and cancer rates
New statistics from the American Cancer Society show a slight decline in cancer death rates between 2004 and 2008, but a few types of cancer are on the rise.
Figures released last week, in Jan. 2012, show a drop in cancer death rates of 1.8 percent...Tags: Television, Hormones and Metabolism, Stress, Human Body, Cancer Treatment Centers of America
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NN students rewarded for fight against childhood obesity
Three groups of young people in Newport News have been awarded grants of up to $1,000 each for their efforts to raise awareness and action to reduce the numbers of obese children in Virginia. (Currently the national numbers hover around one in three is...Tags: Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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New Law Causes College Students to Scramble for Meningitis Vaccine
doug.magditch@cw33.comCollege students, who are new this semester, are required to get a meningitis vaccine before starting classes. "This is my first time. I'm a little nervous, because I'm kind of afraid of needles," said Lan Nguyen, a student at Tarrant County College....Tags: Disease Prevention, Health and Medical Professionals, Teaching and Learning, Chemicals, Colleges and Universities
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Pair of Florida-based cruise ships hit by fast-spreading virus
NewsCoreThe first of two Princess Cruise Lines ships sailing with scores of passengers suffering from the fast-spreading norovirus returned to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Saturday. More than 150 passengers and crew members on board the Crown Princess were infected...Tags: Calicivirus, Cruise Line Ports, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Port Everglades
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The Pet Corner: Behold! The future of modern medicine is here
Do you remember when we used to think some things were impossible? Modern technology has taught us to never say never or impossible. I think about the 1970s and 1980s growing up without cell phones, computers and many of the electronically advanced...Tags: Blood, Science Fiction (genre), Arthritis, Acupuncture, Medical Research
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Sugar is so harmful it should be regulated, scientists say
NewsCoreSugar is so harmful to public health it should be controlled, US scientists claimed. Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco said Wednesday that the public's excessive consumption of sugar not only is contributing to a global obesity...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Hormones and Metabolism, Human Body, Weight, Human Body
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FDA approves first drug to treat cystic fibrosis
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsCystic fibrosis, the genetic disorder effecting approximately 30,000 Americans, has a new form of treatment. This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug to treat the disease. Patients suffering from CF have a mutated enzyme ...Tags: Lungs and Airways, Human Body, Hospitals and Clinics, Cystic Fibrosis, Human Body
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