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Shrimp boil benefits pediatric patients
More than 200 people recently gathered beachside to enjoy great food while helping to raise money for a good cause. The fourth annual, Louisiana-style "Toes in the Sand" Shrimp Boil on the Beach, staged at the Lauderdale Surf Club in Lauderdale-by-the-...Tags: Renal cell carcinoma, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Surgery, Shrimp, Health and Medical Professionals
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BMI measuring in schools proves weighty issue
Like other fourth-graders at Evanston's King Laboratory School, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's self-esteem, her mother...
Tags: Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Teaching and Learning, Vaccines, Evanston
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Rodney R Millar
On a beautiful May 3rd of 2013, while surrounded by family, Rodney Robert Millar did succumb to heart disease after a long and courageous battle. The son of Fred and Gladys (Jones) Millar, Rodney was born in Martin, SD on June 19, 1940. One of the...
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Lifestyle change may ease heart risk from job stress
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being under stress at work is tied to a higher risk of heart problems, new research confirms - but putting down the beer bottle and going for a walk may help. Researchers found that job strain - defined as having a lot of...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Stress, Behavioral Conditions, Brooklyn (New York City)
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CORRECTED-Data show new Roche leukemia drug may improve on Rituxan
Reuters(Corrects paragraph 12 to show Biogen has stake in new drug) By Bill Berkrot May 15 (Reuters) - An experimental leukemia treatment that Roche Holding AG hopes will improve upon its best-selling cancer drug Rituxan delayed disease progression twice as...Tags: Cancer, Oncology, Health Treatments, Chemotherapy, Diseases and Illnesses
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Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation
"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...Tags: Angelina Jolie, Diabetes, Cancer, Mastectomy, Ovarian Cancer
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Two Bad Ways To Expand Workers' Comp
The state's former "heart and hypertension law" was a gold-plated albatross, a boondoggle for police and fire unions, a classic example of good intentions waylaid by bad science. Though the law was finally changed, the unions bring back some variation...
Tags: Justice System, Judges, Heart Attack, Social Security, Career and Workplace
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Combined supplements no better for cholesterol
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding a plant-derived compound called a sterol to the cholesterol-lowering agent red yeast rice doesn't make it work any better, according to a new study. "I expected to see a synergistic effect with red yeast rice, and I was...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Lipitor (drug), Placebo, Steroids, Health and Medical Professionals
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Warning didn't change for-profit dialysis drug use
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study. The researchers write...Tags: Medical Specialization, Dialysis, Health and Medical Professionals, Amgen Inc., Government Health Care
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic...Tags: Research, Animals, George W. Bush, Diseases and Illnesses, Science
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Ovarian cancer fall sped up as hormone use dropped
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ovarian cancer rates in the U.S. began to decline faster in 2002 around the time many older women went off hormone replacement therapy, according to a new study. That year, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) found that...Tags: Medical Specialization, National Institutes of Health, Oncology, Heart Attack, Ovarian Cancer
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Is grief a mental illness? Psychiatrists, critics face off over revised diagnostic guidebook
AP Medical WriterCHICAGO (AP) — In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get a fancy name. And certain "senior moments" are called "mild...Tags: Research, Psychiatrists, Culture, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Medical Professionals
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